"Nothing about these documents reflect that these minutes or hazing practices were done in isolation," Olivia Smith wrote to NBC10. While student activists say the comments from the leaked documents only came from Phi Psi members, they also cited a Tumblr blog detailing alleged incidents of sexual misconduct, racism and homophobia from members of both campus frats. The articles sparked protests from students, conversations about fraternity culture on campus, and demands for Phi Psi and the school's only other fraternity, Delta Upsilon, to be closed. “Rape jokes, descriptions of sexual assault naming specific women and being generally ableist, racist, homophobic,” Olivia Smith, a Swarthmore student, told NBC10. The documents, from 2012 through 2016, included derogatory remarks toward women, minorities and the LGBTQ community as well as discussions of sexual assault and alleged evidence of hazing. The controversy began on April 18 when campus publications Voices and the Phoenix published documents leaked by an anonymous source describing parties thrown by the Swarthmore fraternity Phi Psi. Student activists at Swarthmore College are demanding the school permanently shut down campus fraternities in the aftermath of leaked documents showing racist, misogynist and homophobic comments as well as jokes about sexual assault allegedly from fraternity members. Current Phi Si members condemned the documents. The school president suspended both frats pending an investigation.The demand comes after the leak of documents showing racist, homophobic and sexist language allegedly from Phi Psi members.Swarthmore College students are staging a sit-in at the Phi Psi fraternity house demanding Phi Psi and Delta Upsilon be banned permanently.
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