<p>Campus Life: Alabama; Integration Is at Hand For Fraternity System</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/25/nyregion/campus-life-alabama-integration-is-at-hand-for-fraternity-system.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/25/nyregion/campus-life-alabama-integration-is-at-hand-for-fraternity-system.html</a></p>
<p>^^ written in 1991!!! so for 22 years they have had the power to remove them from campus</p>
<p>To insure the new standards are met, the university is requiring each chapter to fill out extensive self-assessment surveys, asking, for example, what good-faith efforts they have made to integrate. In addition, each chapter will be reviewed every four years by an accreditation board, now being formed, comprising faculty and staff members, students and alumnae. </p>
<p>Enforcement, which will be handled by the university’s Office of Student Life, will range from counseling to probation to denial of recertification to live and operate on campus.</p>
<p>Fraternity integration is hardly “handled.” While some of the newer UA fraternities may have black members, to my knowledge none of the Old Row or more established fraternities have black members.</p>
<p>Some other UA threads contain apologist comments such as, “Oh, my son’s fraternity has half-Asian members, Latino members, etc.” That’s not the point. This is Alabama, with a tragic 200-year history of seeing the world only in black and white. Period. </p>
<p>Let’s hope the recent negative publicity spurs some real change this time, unlike every other time this issue has come up since, what, 1963?</p>