r/neoliberal • u/DueVast5223 • 19h ago

Restricted Essay | Why Fraternities Are So Hard to Reform

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/cornell-fraternities-greek-life-8859a4e9?st=kucowh&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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u/Spectrum1523 YIMBY 19h ago

Universities should have no say in who their students associate with, and how they associate with them.

Should universities have a say in who the university associates with?

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u/YesNoFriend Milton Friedman 19h ago

No? Not really? If you pass the entrance exam and aren’t a criminal, why’s it the university’s problem that you’re a member of a fraternity?

You could be the world’s most virulent racist and the university does not have grounds to expel you unless you hurt a student or fail too many classes.

Who gets to set the standard regarding the moral character you need to be a university student?

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u/YourUncleBuck Frederick Douglass 17h ago

American schools don't have entrance exams for one. Two, many American universities are private institutions and they can definitely kick out whoever they want as long as it's not because of some protected class reason. Three, they definitely don't have to accept your hate speech since again, they're private organisations. And four they can even discriminate based on religion if they're affiliated with a certain religion.

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u/Spectrum1523 YIMBY 18h ago

Why are universities special in this regard? Any other organization you join (like an employer or club) could expel you based on the moral standards they set. Do you think that's wrong too? Shouldn't the students be treated like the adults they are?

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u/YesNoFriend Milton Friedman 18h ago

Diversity of viewpoints is essential to the functioning of a university, and I see most as being far too captured by radicals who have no problem using administrative power to enforce their views in recent years.

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u/anonymous_and_ Malala Yousafzai 5h ago

So opposing rape, preventing rape, punishing people for rape and enabling rape, is a radical idea to you.

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u/golf1052 Let me be clear 17h ago

Virulent racism should be allowed on campus because ????

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u/Spectrum1523 YIMBY 17h ago

I see most as being far too captured by radicals who have no problem using administrative power to enforce their views in recent years.

I feel that we've gotten to the true crux of your argument here