Dartmouth IFC has rejected AEΠ's bid for full organization status. Again.
The Interfraternity Council voted Thursday night for the second time not to grant the national Jewish fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi official sponsorship. The IFC had previously rejected AEPi sponsorship during Winter term, but decided to give AEPi another chance at sponsorship because "they had been doing a pretty good job towards satisfying the criteria for us to recognize them," IFC President Alex Lentz '07 said.
Lentz said that the IFC rejected sponsorship on the basis of official IFC expansion policy, specifically current and projected rush numbers.
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In order to gain IFC sponsorship, AEPi needed the support of three-fourths of the College's fraternities.
The IFC used "closed voting" in Thursday night's decision, so the votes of each house were not disclosed. Lentz said that the votes were private because the IFC came to the decision as an organization and how it made the decision was incidental.
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The North American Interfraternity Council mandates that the national fraternities vote in favor of other national organizations coming to campus. Lentz said that the relationship between the five national fraternities and their national office would ultimately determine whether AEPi is recognized.
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The five national fraternities are Psi Upsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Nu, Sigma Phi Epsilon and Theta Delta Chi.
"It's up to the national office to hold them accountable for that and not the IFC," Lentz said. "All the national houses were in communication with their national offices before the vote was cast."
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The IFC said in a statement to the press that, although AEPi was rejected, "we think AEPi is an excellent national organization and certainly respect all of the hard work on the part of Patrick Karas, John Tepperman and the other members of the AEPi interest group."
Yeah, and some of my best friends are...
How did Sig Ep vote? What direction did they get from HQ? Anyone from Dartmouth want to clue us in?
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