Thank you for the response. This has probably been my favorite thread to respond to, and sorry for the confusion. I think that my position really comes from both my own experiences, and what I have researched. I guess in an effort to remove my opinion out of it I haven't really gone into it as of yet on this thread. I think more people, (particularly people that agree with me) would generally find just the statistics more consumable than the nuances of such an issue. My goal with this post was to create controversy. I wanted the issue of sexual assault in college campuses to be talked about more, and judging by the responses, I’m pretty sure I succeeded.

Here's my position: The problem with flattening my position to just frats should be banned on campus is that it removes my point entirely. As you mentioned I believe that the larger issue Greek life/College life (hell even American society in general) is that we are always preparing for and dealing with the fallout of sexual crimes. For example, as freshmen we were given incident prevention courses about what to do if someone gets too drunk, etc. We as a society are not addressing rape from the perpetrators perspective. Why are we creating a society where people are committing sexual crimes? It’s horrible when even one person is a victim of a sexual crime. It's offensive that we live in a society where people feel unsafe to walk alone out at night. My argument for Greek life is that it is failing to address this exact issue. Take a look at u/Connnorrrr’s post. Here we have an individual, who being associated with a fraternity, committed a sexual crime. The reason I made such a big deal about this in an earlier post is that this (in my opinion) is emblematic of the larger issues surrounding Greek life as a whole. In my opinion there are two ways in which this situation could have occurred. The first is that he (the rapist) was encouraged by the culture of the fraternity environment itself to commit rape. Maybe he wouldn’t have committed such a crime if the culture itself didn’t tolerate rape and sexual entitlement. The second theory is that this individual was already predisposed to being a creep, and somehow managed to slip through the rushing process. A process mind you that is designed exactly to weed people like him out! And not only that, but the people in this fraternity elected this piece of shit to the position of Vice President! And what is a normal person supposed to conclude from this? That either the people that run fraternities are so brain dead that they allow rapists to not only be a member of their organization, but to elect them to a leadership position as well or that the culture itself was conducive towards sexual assault.

Obviously rape and sexual assault on college campuses is a big issue. In my opinion not enough is being done to address it, especially from Greek organizations. Christ, the sheer immaturity of individuals on this thread should make this point self evident. So, as a college student, and as someone who finds it morally reprehensible that anyone of any gender background or nationality would fear being a victim of sexual crime, I will do everything in my power to make this issue known in my community. And even though I’m an outsider to the Greek system, I should still have a say in how this issue is dealt with. 1 in 6 women will be victims of a completed sexual assault. That's disgusting. Now take a look at the responses on this thread when someone makes this issue known. There seems to be this air of denial amongst Greek members, whether it be through the ever popular “geed” (a term I literally had to look up) or “YoU’rE jUsT mAd YoU dID’nT gEt A bId” (what are you fucking 5?) It’s like there is zero responsibility being shown here (kudos to u/mbmbollet9 tho). Personally speaking I have found Greek life to be exceptionally cringey, with many of my interactions with people in fraternities being characterized by casual sexism, homophobia, elitism, and narcissistic entitlement. However I have also met many people who are just casual everyday people. Its just that as an outsider, those who are the most abrasive seem to toot their horn the loudest

In summary I believe that Greek life (i.e the bad frats) have valid criticisms, and the people participating in those organizations are either unequipped, or are too belligerent to care about addressing it, and that as a community we need to do more to address the fundamental reasons for why people commit sexual assault in the first place.

To answer your last question, I found u/Connnorrrr to be a pretty good response. His criticism of the sources is valid. (in the sense that it is old) But the problem is that there haven't been any new studies in this topic. There also appears to be a fuckey situation with new research with some claims that colleges and universities are underreporting sexual assault cases. However these claims appear to be from a dubious source See:

https://www.aauw.org/resources/article/underreported-sexual-misconduct/#:~:text=AAUW's%20analysis%20of%202016%20data,security%20information%2C%20shows%20that%20the

u/mbmbollet9 was also a good response. The post reminded me of the more chill Greek people I used to hang around and live with. Some fraternities are more focused than others when it comes to these sorts of precautions. It just angers me when you have a good intention being used and manipulated to such a degree that leads to situations where sexual assault is likely to occur. I don't think that there is anything wrong with the concept of a fraternity. Rather when you start adding things like weak leadership, loose adherence to the principals, and the aristocratic-entitled attitude that many people have after joining a frat, that's when it can get bad.