Fraternities and Sexual Assault
Did you know that fraternities are "the largest single provider of undergraduate housing in the United States?" As such, fraternities have great power to influence the activities and culture on college campuses. In a recent story on NPR , I learned that fraternities are insured. Through this insurance, some research has been done about how to decrease their risk. The number one claim against fraternities is assault and battery and the second is sexual assault of young women. In fact , 55% of gang rapes on college campuses are committed by fraternities. Consider that with these numbers, fraternities cannot be backed by a usual insurance company, they have had to self-insure through the Fraternity Risk Management Fund. Instead of changing their culture to fit society's, and business's, rules of behavior, they created their own insurance fund, so that they could still exhibit this behavior, but also be protected from the cons...