Anger Over Greek Life Reaches Boiling Point at Swarthmore, Where Dozens Are Occupying a Frat House

Nearly 80 students congregated on Monday in the living room of Swarthmore College’s (PA) Phi Psi fraternity house. Plastered on one wall was a banner featuring the logo of Natural Light beer. But the students weren’t there to party.  For the past three days, they had been occupying the house as part of an extensive protest against the college’s two fraternities.  Activists want Swarthmore officials to terminate the leases of the fraternities, which rent their houses from the college, and ban them from the campus. They say the houses perpetuate sexual assault and discrimination against women and minority groups.