The chapter presidents of Syracuse University’s Interfraternity Council unanimously approved a resolution that ended IFC’s social probation Friday afternoon, said Matt Abdifar, former IFC president.

The chapter presidents were notified of the social probation Monday night. Abdifar said some people hadn’t been following the social policy and there was no system in place to correct that. Nothing was being done about minor violations, he said.

Abdifar, IFC executive board officials, Eddie Banks-Crosson, director of fraternity and sorority affairs, and Brian Smith, current IFC president, met to establish a solution. Abdifar rewrote part of the IFC constitution, adding in sanctions for violating social policy. The rewrite also reinstated the peer review system for evaluating violations.

‘All the administration wanted was a plan of action, and we were able to negotiate and come up with the plan,’ Abdifar said.

Social events resumed Friday after the constitutional changes were instituted.

‘A resolution needed to be made,’ Abdifar said. ‘And it was made.’

shmelike@syr.edu

Published on April 5, 2009 at 12:00 pm