Two Loyola fraternities will be suspended for the fall semester as a result of underground pledging.
The Beggars and Alpha Delta Gamma fraternities werTwo Loyola fraternities will be suspended for the fall semester as a result of underground pledging. e charged in the spring for having “dirty” pledge classes, a group of students pledged to the fraternity that year did not meet the academic qualifications to join.
According to Matt Nolan, president of the Beggars and jazz studies junior, the Beggars are undergoing suspension for having two pledges who did not meet the university’s fraternity standards. One had a grade point average that wasn’t high enough and another didn’t have enough class credits. Similar charges were brought up against ADG.
“Separate judicial hearings were conducted with the Beggars fraternity and Alpha Delta Gamma fraternity wherein each group was charged with violating the recruitment administration and eligibility policy as stated in the Interfraternity Council constitution,” said Chris Cameron, former director of the Office of Co-Curricular Programs, in a statement.
As a result, both fraternities will serve a one-semester suspension through Dec. 31.
“Suspension of charter means that the organization has no legal basis for operating on campus or at off-campus university-sponsored events, for recruiting members, or for promoting the organization, its identity, or its activities,” Cameron said.
However, fraternities rush in the spring, so the suspension won’t affect future pledges.
David Gunn, the new Interfraternity Council adviser and associate director of Co-Curricular Programs, hopes to help the fraternities meet the needed requirements to return in the spring.
“The sanctions have already been set forth,” Gunn said. “I see my role, as adviser to IFC, is to work with those groups on completing sanctions and help them do what needs to be done to lift suspensions.”
Nolan noted that the Beggars are already working on the necessary procedures for reinstatement.
“This matter has created a long-lost level of focus amongst the members of our fraternity,” he said in an e-mail to the Maroon. “Consequently, I am not only confident in our ability to make necessary modifications, but excited to see what else may come about as a result of this group’s current level of dedication.”
Although Gunn declined to comment on the nature of the sanctions, he said that there needed to be “evidence of strong leadership within the organizations and commitment to the Loyola community, which are the same things you would ask of organizations that are not under suspension.”
Gunn hopes to dispel the rumor that the suspensions mean Loyola is planning on eliminating Greek life on campus.
“If Loyola were anti-Greek, would they have a Greek adviser?” he said. “If Loyola didn’t want Greeks to be here, they probably wouldn’t be here,” Gunn said.

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