The fraternity of Swarthmore is suspended while the students organize a sit-in to protest.

Students at Swarthmore College, a private liberal arts school in Pennsylvania, occupy a fraternity home on campus after the release of documents allegedly reporting multiple cases of sexual assault on old-timers members. The student protesters managed to get the suspension of the campus fraternity, but they plan to stay home until the university closes the fraternity completely.

The controversy began when students opened a blog on Tumblr to share their own stories of victims of sexual violence and other prejudicial behavior in the two fraternities of the campus. The students said that they had been sexually assaulted and that they had been the victims of homophobic insults and other insulting remarks.

Shortly after the publication of the blog, many documents containing minutes of meetings and other notes of Phi Psi, who is not affiliated with the national organization Phi Kappa Psi, have were published on Voices and the Phoenix, two academic publications. While the papers concerned the years 2012 to 2016, some students said that they reflected their experiences in recent years, and the details sparked indignation on campus.

In the documents, members of the fraternity referred to a "rape loft" and a "rape tunnel". Some talked about acquiring drugs of rape. Others have reported sexual encounters with underage girls. Some refer to videos or photos taken of women at parties without their consent. Some made offensive jokes about the race and appearance of women at their parties, while others seemed to make jokes of good humor about the degrading things that happened to women during sexual encounters. Many comments have degraded those of the LGBT community.

On Saturday, a group of about 50 protesters, who now call the Coalition to End Violence in Fraternities, began his sit-in. The group has grown to more than 100 people.

Just after the start of the sit-in, Valerie Smith, President of Swarthmore College, sent a letter to the students announcing that she had suspended all fraternity activities on campus (the school only counted). Another fraternity, Delta Upsilon) and launched an investigation. On Monday, she condemned the contents of the documents. "The content of these pages is vulgar and deeply offensive to all of us," she said in a statement. "The racism, misogyny and homophobia described in these texts go against the College's values ​​and violate the student's code of conduct as well as fundamental decency."

The students said that they would not be happy until the college closes Phi Psi and Delta Upsilon. They are also asking Swarthmore to end the leases of the two fraternities and redevelop them for housing for historically marginalized groups on campus.

In a statement on April 17, current members of the Phi Psi fraternity said that they "strongly condemned the wording of the 2013 and 2014 notes, as they are not representative of who we are today. hui ". They added: "All our current brothers were in high school college at the time of these unofficial minutes, and none of us would have joined the organization if this had been the norm upon our arrival at Swarthmore."