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Input: Greek organizations at Rutgers are banned from hosting parties for the rest of the spring semester, according to Erin Kearns, president of Rutgers Panhellenic Association. 
  
 The decision was announced last Wednesday during a meeting with University officials in New Brunswick, where the negative publicity surrounding greek life was discussed, according to nj.com. The presidents of all 86 fraternities and sororities attended the meeting, which took place at 9 p.m. in the Rutgers Student Center and discussed concerns with the "social probation." 
  
 Greek organizations will be allowed to hold formals and events arranged at off-campus facilities where third-party vendors serve alcohol, according to nj.com. Dance Marathon, scheduled for April 11 to 12, will continue as planned. 
  
 "Our advisors and administrators put stricter regulations on Rutgers' greek social calendar for the (remainder) of the semester," Kearns said. "Their decision process was (intended) to keep our members safe." 
  
 Currently, there is a negative aura surrounding the word "greek" nationwide, Kearns said. There have been anecdotal situations that have spurred these negative connotations within the community, she said. 
  
 "The decision our advisors made is not a punishment for our community," Kearns said. "It's a yellow light to allow us to reflect on how and what we can do to be a better greek community." 
  
 Emily Gibbs, a School of Arts and Sciences sophomore and a member of service sorority Omega Phi Alpha, spoke in general agreement of the move. 
  
 "I feel we need a moment to reflect and have a silence to really understand what we've been doing wrong," she said. "Rutgers has such a great reputation academically and it needs to have the same reputation off-campus." 
  
 Although the ban will only last about three weeks, she said her friends, some whom are seniors and in social greek organizations, viewed the ban as buzzkill while they wind down their college careers. 
  
 But Gibbs remained adamant in her views about how the ban will recollect the greek community and improve the University's image, especially in the wake of a slew of greek life incidents that led to investigations, suspensions and removals of various organizations. 
  
 "Rutgers shouldn't have bad publicity, especially because we're in the Big Ten now," she said. "We should have students wanting to come to Rutgers, and I feel like all this bad controversy is causing students to maybe second-guess coming to Rutgers." 
  
 Although she largely supported OFSA's ban, she expressed some doubt about the fairness of the move. 
  
 Omega Phi Alpha is not a social greek life organization, and they do not host parties, she said. Despite this, the ban would hold her sorority to the same standard that a social fraternity or sorority would be expected to adhere to. 
  
 "Punishing every sorority and fraternity maybe isn't fair, because there's a select few that do it," she said. "Not a lot go crazy." 
  
 With the ban, any fraternity or sorority that hosts a party will face consequences. 
  
 "The chapter would be reprimanded by the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs and would be held accountable for their actions as a chapter," Kearns said. "All organizations are informed of the penalizations that will occur if the rules are not followed." 
  
 Kearns said the greek community will take time to improve greek life culture at Rutgers through an array of positive programming about alcohol safety, the effects of mental illness stigma and issues that affect college students. 
  
 OFSA is taking this step out of caution and concern, E.J. Miranda, spokesperson for Rutgers University, told nj.com. 
  
 "(OFSA) will use this time to continue and reinforce its dialogue with the leadership of the university's 86 recognized fraternities and sororities about greek life at Rutgers and their responsibilities to the campus community at large," Miranda said. 
  
 Avalon Zoppo is a Rutgers Business School first-year student majoring in pre-business. She is an Associate News Editor at The Daily Targum. Follow her on Twitter @avalonzoppo for more stories. 
  
 Katie Park is a School of Arts and Sciences junior majoring in political science and journalism and media studies. She is the News Editor at The Daily Targum. Follow her on Twitter @kasopar for more stories. 
  
  
  
  ||||| NEW BRUNSWICK — Rutgers University is banning all fraternity and sorority house parties for the remainder of the spring semester after several alcohol-related incidents on campus, university officials said Monday. 
  
 The ban, which students are calling an informal "social probation," applies to all 86 of Rutgers' fraternities and sororities. 
  
 "Rutgers takes seriously its commitment to maintaining a healthy and safe campus environment. In light of a number of alcohol-related incidents this year involving Greek organizations, the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs has placed a moratorium through the end of the semester on parties in fraternity and sorority houses," said E.J. Miranda, a Rutgers spokesman. 
  
 Fraternities and sororities will be permitted to hold their end-of-the-year "formals" and other events arranged at off-campus facilities where third-party vendors serve alcohol. The Rutgers University Dance Marathon, a student-run fundraiser, will also go on, as planned, this weekend. 
  
 But all other fraternity and sorority parties must be cancelled or the Greek organizations could face disciplinary action from the Rutgers Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs, or OFSA. 
  
  
  
 "OFSA is taking this step out of caution and concern and will use this time to continue and reinforce its dialogue with the leadership of the university's 86 recognized fraternities and sororities about Greek life at Rutgers and their responsibilities to the campus community at large," Miranda said. 
  
 The presidents of all 86 fraternities and sororities and other Greek life leaders learned about the ban Wednesday during a meeting with university officials in New Brunswick. They discussed the recent negative publicity surrounding Greek life at Rutgers and around the nation. 
  
 "Our advisors and administration thought it would be best that Rutgers doesn't fall into that trap," said Erin Kearns, president of Rutgers' Panhellenic Association, the governing body for the university's sororities. 
  
 Students said the 9 p.m. meeting at the Rutgers Student Center went on for several hours as Greek life leaders discussed the "social probation" and raised concerns that the party ban meant graduating seniors would miss out on farewell gatherings at their fraternities and sororities. 
  
 In the end, the Greek leaders seemed to accept the ban, Kearns said. 
  
 "It kind of became the idea of what are we willing to risk our community for? Is it really worth it for the last three weeks of our semester?" said Kearns, a member of the Delta Gamma sorority. 
  
 The ban comes after a difficult year for fraternities and sororities at Rutgers. 
  
 In September, Rutgers student Caitlyn Kovacs, 19, of Monmouth Junction, died of alcohol poisoning after friends took her to the hospital after seeing her in distress at a party at the Delta Kappa Epsilon house in New Brunswick. Authorities did not say if Kovacs was drinking at the house or elsewhere that evening. 
  
 In a separate incident about six weeks later, a severely intoxicated 20-year-old member of Sigma Phi Epsilon was hospitalized. In March, the national headquarters of Sigma Phi Epsilon "indefinitely suspended" the Rutgers chapter in reaction to the incident involving the hospitalized student. 
  
 Delta Kappa Epsilon, the fraternity where Kovacs attended a party before her death, has been suspended by Rutgers pending a university review, Miranda said. Another five unnamed Rutgers fraternities are also facing campus discipline reviews for alcohol-related incidents. 
  
 About 4,500 Rutgers students, or about 10 percent of students on Rutgers' New Brunswick-Piscataway campus, are part of fraternities and sororities, officials said. 
  
 Rutgers joins a growing list of colleges and universities taking campus-wide measures in reaction to bad behavior among Greek organizations. 
  
 At North Carolina State University, campus officials banned all fraternity activities involving alcohol last month after learning about a "pledge book" filled with jokes about raping women and lynching African-American men. 
  
 At Dartmouth College, the school's president announced in January that hard alcohol would be banned campus-wide after the university was accused of not responding adequately to accusations of sexual assault. 
  
 Last year, Johns Hopkins University in Maryland banned all social events at fraternities after a 16-year-old was allegedly sexually assaulted at a fraternity party. Clemson University in South Carolina also suspended all fraternity activities last semester after a fraternity brother was killed after falling off a bridge. 
  
 NJ Advance Media reporter Adam Clark contributed to this report. 
  
 Kelly Heyboer may be reached at kheyboer@njadvancemedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @KellyHeyboer. Find NJ.com on Facebook. ||||| Rutgers University is banning all fraternity and sorority parties for the remaining three weeks of the semester. Brynn Gingras reports (Published Tuesday, April 7, 2015) 
  
 Rutgers University is banning all fraternity and sorority parties for the remaining three weeks of the semester. 
  
 The university said in a statement the decision came "in light of a number of alcohol-related incidents this year involving Greek organizations." 
  
 The 86 recognized fraternities and sororities are still allowed to host formals and other events where a licensed third-party vendor is used to serve alcohol, the university said, but they won't be allowed to host parties in their houses. 
  
 The presidents of the fraternities and sororities learned about the decision during a meeting with university officials in New Brunswick, NJ Advance Media reported. 
  
 Most of them seemed to be on board with the ban because they wanted to avoid risking further negative publicity that's surrounded Greek organizations on campus and across the country this year. 
  
 "We haven't run the parties nearly as well as we should, so I can understand that," said senior Jacob Dominy, a fraternity member. 
  
 Freshman Darek Rola said "there have been many cases of poor decisions made." 
  
 Sophomore Caitlyn Kovacs died of alcohol poisoning last fall after attending a fraternity house party. Last month, the Rutgers chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon was shut down because of an underage drinking incident. 
  
 The Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs "will use this time to continue and reinforce its dialogue with the leadership of the university's 86 recognized fraternities and sororities about greek life at Rutgers and their responsibilities to the campus community at large," the university said in the statement. 
  
 But freshman Sristi Rai said the conversation could still happen without the extreme measure of shutting down house parties. 
  
 "I don't think it's necessary," said Rai. "I think the issue is more of educating students not just about Greek life but about how to be more responsible." 
  
 Rola said there are other aspects to Greek life that he plans to enjoy the rest of the semester. 
  
 "We still have our community serve, we still have intramurals. We still have everything else," he said. 
  
 -- Brynn Gingras contributed to this report. |||||
Output:
For this semester, the party's already over for all 86 fraternities and sororities at Rutgers University. After a series of alcohol-related incidents at the New Jersey university—and fraternity scandals across the country—officials say they have "placed a moratorium through the end of the semester on parties in fraternity and sorority houses," NJ.com reports. The Greek organizations will still be allowed to hold end-of-year formals off-campus. The president of the Rutgers Panhellenic Association tells the Daily Targum that the move is "not a punishment for our community," but a "yellow light to allow us to reflect on how and what we can do" to be a better community. The Rutgers incidents this year include the death of 19-year-old Caitlyn Kovacs from alcohol poisoning after a Delta Kappa Epsilon party in September, and the hospitalization of a "severely intoxicated" Sigma Phi Epsilon member six weeks later, NJ.com reports. A freshman frat member tells NBC New York that the decision is unsurprising in light of the "many cases of poor decisions made," and he plans to keep enjoying other aspects of Greek life. "We still have our community serve, we still have intramurals," he says. "We still have everything else." (The University of Houston suspended a frat last month amid rumors of booze waterboarding.)