US Fraternities at Crossroads

Fraternities have long been a fixture of American college life, but revelations about racism and sexual assault are casting a pall over hard-partying "Greek life" on campus. Some are going so far as to question the future of fraternities, an institution that dates back to the earliest days of the United States. "This is the biggest outcry I have seen in the past 50 years," Laura Hamilton, a sociology professor at the University of California at Merced, told AFP. ...