However, when asked for basic information about Thursday’s meeting, such as when and where it was scheduled to take place, Long said it was “not a KU meeting.” One of her primary responsibilities is serving as adviser to the IFC and to the Panhellenic Association, which oversees the majority of KU sororities. Long’s official job description on the KU website describes her as “the primary supervisor to the Greek life staff,” overseeing all major programming related to fraternities and sororities at KU. The university’s spokeswoman, Erinn Barcomb-Peterson, similarly refused to confirm that a meeting had taken place Monday night involving KU’s chancellor, other university leaders, state employees and fraternity associations.
Amy Long, KU’s associate director for Fraternity/Sorority Life, did not confirm details of Thursday’s meeting to the Journal-World when the newspaper contacted her Thursday morning. Inquiries to KU’s Student Involvement and Leadership Center, or SILC, have largely gone unanswered since Monday’s announcement. “Most chapters,” though, want to see the freeze overturned, Coble said.Īs for whether or not he expected action to be taken against the freeze at Thursday’s meeting, Coble said, “I don’t know that for sure, but I know it’s a topic of discussion.” Lee, hanging up on a reporter, refused to speak to the Journal-World Tuesday and did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday.Ĭoble’s fraternity brothers in the Triangle house mostly seem “indifferent” to the decision itself, he said. “While I don’t think that it’s completely his idea, in my personal opinion I think it’s for the best of the community.” “He’s a smart guy, and while I think it may not have been his decision alone, he does have the best of the community in mind,” Coble said. While KU’s Student Involvement and Leadership Center “works closely” with the IFC as advisers and “may have had input” in the decision, Coble said, he doesn’t think there was any pressure on students to impose the freeze.Ĭoble also said he served on the committee that selected members of the current (not interim) IFC executive board, including president Lee. Scott Coble, a member and former president of KU’s Triangle fraternity, said he disagrees with suspicions among some in the greek community that KU employees may have strong-armed IFC members in their call to freeze social activities. Two other seats had been vacated for unrelated reasons, Gose said. There are usually nine members on that board, Gose said, but several have left those positions recently after their fraternities were sanctioned or put under investigation. Gose told the Journal-World previously that the decision to impose the freeze was made by a four-person IFC executive board without consulting or even informing fraternities beforehand.
This followed a private forum that was held Tuesday, when fraternity representatives voted to form an ad hoc committee of interim leaders, temporarily replacing IFC president Daniel Lee and other executive officers.Ĭhapter representatives on Tuesday elected Keegun Gose, president of KU’s Phi Gamma Delta, to serve as interim president while Lee and other IFC executive board members undergo a review by IFC’s “judicial board,” which comprises fellow fraternity members. There had been talk of plans to overturn that freeze during the meeting, though the Journal-World was not able to confirm those plans as of Thursday evening and could not even confirm that such a meeting had occurred. Bottom row, from left: Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon.Ī decision to halt social activities across 24 fraternity chapters at the University of Kansas has been met with pushback by some in the greek community, and in the wake of Monday’s announcement from the Interfraternity Council, the new interim leaders of the council called a private meeting for Thursday night.
Top row, from left: Beta Theta Pi, Delta Chi, Delta Tau Delta, Kappa Sigma, Phi Delta Theta. Some of the fraternity houses at University of Kansas are pictured April 2017.
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