At Old Dominion University, some new students and parents arriving at the Norfolk campus Friday were startled to find three huge banners hanging from a private off-campus house touting rowdy fun, with an arrow pointing to the front door labeled, “Freshman daughter drop off”. This incident will be reviewed immediately by those on campus empowered to do so. WAVY-TV The fraternity house is seen cleaned up, without the banners. Any student found to have violated the code of conduct will be subject to disciplinary action. He described the new student government association campaign aimed at preventing sexual assault on campus, with video, online and in-person training throughout the year, including sessions for freshmen this past weekend.
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Our students, campus community and alumni have been offended.
Broderick said at least one young student he talked to “thought seriously about going back home” after seeing the “offensive message”.
But she was heartened, she explained, when she saw how fellow students were reacting to this incident on social media. “She realized this callous and senseless act did not reflect the Old Dominion she has come to love”, he continued.
Sigma Nu says it condemns what it calls derogatory and demeaning language that was used on the banners. Such language has no place in our fraternity or within any caring community, such as ODU.
Beachcam said that the university’s Eta Chi Chapter will be suspended pending the completion of an investigation. (They reached out to Sigma Nu’s National Director of Risk Reduction who said that while “four members of the ODU chapter live in the building where the banners were displayed”, they’re not to blame.) The banners originally went viral when ODU undergraduate Mary Coleman posted the image above on Facebook.
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On Monday, Jezebel received an email from ODU Interfraternity Council President Michael Faust confirming that “several fraternity members” – of an unnamed chapter – were responsible.
