It is just unfortunate Beta doesn’t have that luxury.

I bet if you were a Beta you would think it mattered. Remember they found them “in violation” of sexual misconduct, a very serious charge imbued with resounding public scorn. This was heavily covered in the national news. They were hounded by the press for days as satellite trucks camped outside their fraternity house. Many of the early articles described them as gang rapists. Do you really think it doesn’t matter?

UCF did nothing to dispel this horrible misconception, even after they knew that only the guest was involved with the Ohio woman. Remember, the Ohio police never even filed charges against the guest alumnus. Also remember that no student members of the fraternity had anything to do with this woman.

By the way, it always matters when your rights are violated and when you are defamed. It is always worth fighting to uphold your reputation. Tyranny in any form, even when condoned and carried out by a major state university is worth fighting. This travesty is worth exposing not only to clear Beta but in hopes that it will never be repeated.

Maybe if you were the one being called a rapist in the national news and by UCF this might be easier to understand.

“suspended the fraternity known for producing leaders across campus”

you could say that about pretty much ANY tenured student organization. Also, the grammar needs a bit of work.

As for the Betas, they should have been well aware of how much OSC’s status as the campus Kangaroo Court, so it really doesn’t matter if they were proven innocent or not, their alumnus/guest still engaged in morally and legally questionable acts.

Good luck getting Golden Rule thrown out, I’m fairly certain that their policies are a requirement of any government-funded educational facility, and you can find similar if not identical rules at every other major public school in the state. We just have a clever name for ours

It’s not a matter of whether our opinions will make any sort of a difference, it’s a matter that the school’s punishment policies are wrong, bias against those being charged, and do not offer any resemblance to our rights as Americans. When punished, we’re treated like elementary students, not adults. We pay our thousands each year, so why should we deal with any of that when brought forth to fight for our rights?

As students under the Golden Rule:

• We are, in practice, guilty until proven innocent;
• Hearsay, rumor and speculation may and will be used as evidence against us;
• We have no right to legal representation;
• Prosecutor, judge, and jury are essentially all the same people in a hearing;
• There is no separation of powers between those who create, enforce, and interpret the rules of conduct;
• Off-campus incidents that have no bearing on the functions or processes of the university are punishable;
• We have no right to know what evidence the office has against us, who the office will bring in as adverse witnesses to testify against us, or who submitted the charges against us until as little as five days before a formal hearing occurs;
• We are subject to punishment for our innocent associations;
• Student organizations are subject to collective punishment for the actions of an isolated few;
• The burden of proof is preponderance of evidence, or “more likely than not”;
• We are afforded no right to a public hearing;
• We may be punished for crimes that the state or federal court system finds us innocent of;
• We are not provided with information about the precedents that the office claims to operate by when handling cases;
• We are pressured to incriminate ourselves before we have a formal hearing;
• We are bribed to incriminate other students in order to receive a lesser penalty;
• We are subject to punishments that do not nearly fit the crime.

Is that a fair assessment?