Sororities and fraternities have been a part of a number of large and small universities all throughout America for many years. Although most of the clubs have no academic bonuses, they seem to have grown in popularity over the years. With the rapid growth of fraternities and sororities there has also been a spike of sexual assaults and molestations on college and university campuses. These instances have caused the post-secondary schools to warn students, especially females, about the dangers of walking alone at night. The way to bring down the percentage of rapes and molestations could be to limit or ban the clubs known as sororities and fraternities, or at least the ones that have no academic value or gain from them. Most young adults going into college are unaware of the dangers they could face while attending college.

A report At Oregon University on October 23 stated that school officials and leaders are trying to stop any plans to expand or create new sororities or fraternities on campus due to the high rates of sexual assault. In recent years the number of attempted sexual assaults and sexual assaults has become known at Oregon University as “Twenty Students Per Week”. This number is too large for any college and needs to be lowered. Many people including myself believe that if Fraternities and sororities were banned from college students and from the towns that campuses reside in, sexual crimes would most likely dramatically decline. Universities would not have to have self-defense classes for women or take other dramatic steps to keep the female student body safe. If 13% of the female student body is sexually assaulted every year security needs to increase and policies need to be revised.

Clemson University has banned there Fraternities from hosting social events and recruiting new members after a student was killed in a hazing incident earlier this year. None of these incidents have made national headlines and it’s about time they have because there needs to be a change at Universities. With one out of every five individuals being sexually assaulted during their college years, the White House labeled sexual crimes to be an epidemic. If the White House is labeling these crimes an epidemic why are they not making headlines and why are there not more drastic security measures taken at the campuses? Finally it has reached the pubic but now the colleges nee to step up and try to protect the students.

These crimes have been going on for years, and they have not been brought out to the public till maybe the last decade at most. If an individual wants to make his or her life better by going to college and getting a degree to start a career and gets sexually assaulted that is a true shame. If 13% of all women get raped in at a University, the college needs to change something or those numbers will never improve and the University’s enrollment will start to decline. All I can say is, there needs to be a change.