March 19th, there was a protest on the second floor of the MUB that was designed to "raise awareness" for rape on campus. This "protest" was in fact a thinly veiled attempt at an attack on the greek system because the protesters felt that the frats are the reason rape happens on campus. The plain facts of rape on campus is that only 6 rapes were reported at off-campus locations last year. The next logical charge that campus feminists will lob at that statistic is a statistic of their own. This statistic ranges from group-to-group and person-to-person, but it basically states that 90% - 95% of rapes go unreported. Well then, let's do some math(I know, math in a magazine article....), if 6 rapes are reported, and 90% of rapes are unreported, then there are 60 rapes at off-campus locations every year. That's 240 rapes for every total cycle of students that come through this university. Campus feminists will try to: 1.) claim that the off campus rapes were frat-related, and 2.) contribute this to the "atmosphere" at the frats, including alcohol usage and the impossible-to-define, and purely sexist "male-environment".

The problem with these arguments is that while rapes happen at frats, they also happen at dorms. In fact, there are an equal number of reported rapes at dorms across the university. This brings me to my point, why is the university not proclaimed as a so-called "rape factory" that the campus feminists infer fraternities are. The pure and sad fact is that while rape is a bad thing and it should be condemned and worked against, rape is a crime. Crime will inevitably happen. This is not a argument saying that rape cannot be decreased, but that it happens, no matter what environment it takes place in - even in a PC factory that American universities have become.

The question to ask yourself is: If rape can happen in an environment (the university environment) where anti-female activities of even the slightest level are demonized and denounced as the worst kind of crime, can it be stopped at any environment. To blame fraternities as institutions of promotion of rape, through direct accusation or insinuation is irresponsible and borderline reckless.

This trend to attack frats is just an opening shot against an organization that universities and student groups across the country have decided is too sick and twisted to live. I do not want to see UNH turn into a place like Dartmouth where they are trying to destroy the greek system by putting unrealistic requirements on them that the administration knows the greek community can never live up to. I issue this article as a call to action on behalf of the students of this university to rise and protect the greek system to be portrayed fairly and consistently.