This past week the University of Missouri, Columbia campus suspended all fraternity activity after a freshman was found unresponsive at a fraternity party. The school’s administration and Interfraternity Council (IFC) made the decision together.

“We decided in tandem to put a halt on all fraternity activity, so that we can review the practices and the policies that are in place to ensure safety for all of those activities,” said University of Missouri spokesperson, Christian Basi.

Basi continued, “Whenever we have a situation where we feel that a student’s health and well-being is threatened, we’re going to take action immediately and we’ve done that here.”

The University withdrew its recognition for its Phi Gamma Delta chapter, commonly referred to as FIJI. The chapter has five days to appeal the decision. The chapter is also facing an internal investigation by the international headquarters of the fraternity. The student in question was a member of the FIJI chapter and was still in critical condition as of Oct. 29. 

This is the third violation by the fraternity in the last year. The first was a hazing incident in April, the second a drinking violation this past August.

On Friday, Oct. 29, the offices of Greek Life at University of Missouri lifted the sanctions on new member education and social events. Coinciding with the lift of the suspension was new social event guidelines from the IFC leadership. The guidelines call for fraternity leadership across campus to meet with the leadership of IFC and discuss risk management before any event. Each chapter must also update its incident response plan and risk management plans. 

If you’ve been keeping up on The Hilltop Monitor’s Lifestyle page recently – which I encourage everyone to do – you’ll notice that there has been an exciting addition: quizzes! These William Jewell College related quizzes have been an excellent way for students to learn more about themselves and the school.

However, a recent quiz sparked controversy among members of the fraternity community at Jewell.

The quiz “Which Jewell fraternity member are you?”, led to hundreds of fraternity members questioning their frats and, ultimately, their own membership in their organization.

Fraternity members were shocked and confused when they started taking the quiz and realizing that might have belonged to the wrong fraternity for years. More importantly, members who recently joined were horrified at the thought that they might have just pledged the wrong fraternity.

“I overheard a man contemplating his entire Greek life career, nay contemplating his entire life, when the frat he got in his quiz was not the frat he was actually in,” said Savannah Hawley, sophomore Oxbridge: Literature and Theory and French major. “Since all the other quiz results had been so accurate up to this point, he was wondering if he had in fact joined the wrong one.”

Hawley was excited to announce that she received FIJI as the fraternity she should join and wants to rush next year.

Students on the Hill observed fraternity men everywhere questioning how the quiz results could be accurate – KA’s were getting LCA, FIJI’s were getting KA, LCA’s were getting FIJI – they thought it had to be a farce.

However, the Monitor spoke with Madison Carroll, sophomore Oxbridge: Institutions and Policy major and creator of the quiz, who confirmed the accuracy of the results.

“I took all the information about the fraternities from their national websites,” said Carroll. “All of the character traits and preferences were based on the values which the fraternities hold as their highest standards. This quiz was by far the most accurate personality test the Monitor has published to date.”

Even though fraternity men were horrified at the quiz results, many women on campus were excited to find out to which fraternity they belonged.

“Up until taking this quiz, I thought I would never have a desire to join Greek life,” said Catherine Dema, sophomore Oxbridge: History of Ideas and psychics major. “After taking the quiz and finding out that my true home was with the brothers of FIJI (ironic) I got excited about figuring out where I truly belonged.”

Even though this quiz destroyed many lives of fraternity members here at Jewell, the Monitor hopes that it has helped people recognize where they truly belong.

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