In a report released at noon today, the Working Group on Campus Social and Residential Life — which President Shirley Tilghman established in September — proposed prohibiting students from rushing fraternities or sororities until their sophomore year. The group recommended a minimum penalty of suspension for participating in or conducting rush for freshmen.
Though Tilghman told The Daily Princetonian in September that the group may have chosen to recognize or ban Greek organizations, the report recommends that the University continue its policy of nonrecognition. Currently, the groups cannot use University resources or facilities.
The group also recommended that the University be more vigilant in prohibiting serious hazing and punishing those found to have engaged in dangerous hazing activities. Since many of the members who haze pledges are sophomores — rather than juniors and seniors, as in the case in many college campuses — the University believes that a sophomore year rush will help discourage hazing.
In addition, the group expressed concern that freshmen were particularly likely to be pressured into rushing, especially considering the “pipeline relationship” that it claimed existed between Greek organizations and certain eating clubs. The group also claimed that a freshman year rush limits students’ social options early in their Princeton careers.
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