Wesleyan, accused of harboring ‘Rape Factory,’ orders frats to admit women

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Wesleyan, accused of harboring ‘Rape Factory,’ orders frats to admit women
Tom Boggioni
22 Sep 2014

In an email sent to the campus community this morning, the Board of Trustees of Wesleyan University has mandated that residential fraternities must begin accepting and housing male and female students within the next three years, according to Business Insider.

In the email, Joshua Boger, Chair of the Board of Trustees, and President Michael Roth, wrote that, while fraternities at the Connecticut school have “contributed greatly to Wesleyan over a long period of time,” the trustees have decided to make changes.

“With equity and inclusion in mind, we have decided that residential fraternities must become fully co-educational over the next three years,” the trustees wrote. “If the organizations are to continue to be recognized as offering housing and social spaces for Wesleyan students, women as well as men must be full members and well-represented in the body and leadership of the organization.”

There has been pressure on the university to ban residential fraternal organizations, following a federal lawsuit filed against the university in 2012 over a sexual assault against a woman at the Mu Epsilon chapter of Beta Theta Pi, a fraternity house the lawsuit claimed was known on campus as the “Rape Factory.”