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In Their Own Words…Quotes from Colgate University Faculty
“Faculty Advisory Committee FAC resolution is unsatisfactory because it doesn’t reflect the sentiments at the last faculty meeting; after discussing this issue for more than ten years, after suffering two tragedies this summer, and with the Trustee-approve goal in mind of improving Colgate academically both in actuality and perception, we must insist on an immediate ban on fraternities and sororities; we are obligated as educators to make a statement to the world that we are going to change, and it’s now or never.”
John Knecht, Professor Art and Art History; at Colgate since 1981-2001
“Support should be given to the FAC resolution and “throw the bums out.”
Dexter Morrill, ATO, director of Computer Music Studio
and Professor of Music, at Colgate 1971-2001“The only way to move forward is to do so without the Greek system; it’s a cancer that poisons our relationships with our students…”
Don Edward Waldman, Professor Economic Studies, at Colgate since 1981
“Now is not the time in the wake of the accident to discuss abolishing fraternities; timing is important – such a discussion now would be misunderstood by students and have a negative impact on faculty-student relations.”
Margaret Maurer, Professor of Literature, at Colgate since 1974
“We should also be careful in what we say to students about Task Force on Campus Culture issues, making it clear to our students that we value those who are here now but seek to improve the university by welcoming different (not better) students to campus.”
John F. Dovidio ,Interim Provost and Dean of the Faculty,
Professor of Psychology; at Colgate since 1977-2004“We need to acknowledge that the drinking culture is more complicated that just the Greek system and be careful about the timing and language of discussions of the possible elimination of fraternities and sororities.”
Andrew R. Keller, Associate Professor of the Classics, at Colgate since 1993-2001
“…the last vote of the faculty on this issue, which still stads, was approximately 140 for and 40 against abolishing the fraternity system.”
Colgate Faculty meeting minutes, April 21, 2001
“The Faculty of Colgate University recommends that the fraternity and sorority system be abolished by the beginning of academic year 1994-1995.”
Passed 134 to 37, one abstention
Colgate University Faculty meeting May 8, 1989“Ms. Pinchin noted…Sororities, like fraternities, she said, were part of a system that is, at its base, anti-intellectual and finally, antithetical to what we do in the classroom. …they trivialize young people.”
Colgate University Faculty Minutes, April 17, 1988
“Ms. Olcott noted that ‘we attract students who are attracted to fraternities,’ and consequently ‘we must change recruitment or redesign residential life.’ In fact, the admissions office approached the faculty asking them to give the office the names of some their “best” students, the admissions office would then compare the records of these individual students and see if a pattern emerged.”
Colgate University Faculty Minutes, April 17, 1988
(N.B. Following SA4C's publication of faculty minutes through 2001, no records have been available to the public of faculy meetings. Such minutes are supposedly housed in the college library, but "due to library renovations" access to faculty minutes has been prohibited.)