Swarthmore College will no longer allow fraternities and sororities

Swarthmore, Pa. – Fraternities and sororities will no longer be allowed to Swarthmore College after being scandalized by documents written several years ago by a fraternity and containing disparaging comments about women and the LGBTQ community, as well as jokes about sexual assault.

"Fraternities and sororities will no longer exist at the College," school president Valerie Smith said Friday on the college's website.

Swarthmore's decision comes about a week after the two fraternities of the private liberal arts college in the suburbs of Philadelphia decided to dissolve after the publication of the internal documents.

"The voluntary dissolution of Phi Psi and Delta Upsilon reflects a more general shift in the needs and desires of students, and exclusive, fee-based social organizations no longer respond effectively to the needs of our liberal residential arts environment," writes Smith.

Smith said the school's only sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, could stay with its current members until the spring semester of 2022 but could neither recruit new members nor create new ones.

CBS Philly reported that the center of the controversy was a home of the non-residential Swarthmore fraternity. The signs of student protesters covered what the documents described described as "attic for rape".