Brownstone Review Committee
The Brownstone Review Committee was a body appointed by Kevin Shollenberger and Student Affairs to fill the brownstones vacated by Operation Ivy League. Dean Terry Martine headed it, and told Bwog it was not open to student input due to student "bias."
There were wide assertions that the Brownstone Review Committee was too much dominated by members of Greek life. Indeed, KevSho told Spec, "We did purposely ask students who were part of Greek life because I wanted to honor that, historically, those brownstones have gone to Greek organizations"[1].
bored@butler users fliered against the Operation Ivy League fraternities geting back their houses[2]. And there were of course lots of juicy comments.
Ultimately, the BRC awarded the brownstones to AXO, Lambda Phi Epsilon, and Q House[3].
Groups
The groups that applied were as follows[4]:
- Alpha Chi Omega
- Alpha Epsilon Pi
- Application Development Initiative
- Lambda Phi Epsilon
- Manhattan House by NAC
- Music House
- Phi Gamma Delta
- Pi Kappa Alpha
- Psi Upsilon
- Q House
- Sigma Alpha Epsilon
- Student Wellness Project
- Writers House
Finalists
Finalists were:
Committee members
The members of the Brownstone Review Committee were as follows:
- Terry Martinez
- Victoria Lopez-Herrera
- Cristen Scully Kromm
- Joyce Jackson
- Will Hughes
- Krystal Martinez
- Daniel O'Leary III (resigned after Bwog revealed a conflict of interest: that he had become a founding member of SAE, which had applied for a brownstone, after he was appointed to the committee[5])
- Andrea Collazo
- Dane Nickerson
- Kimberly Lynch
- Anthony Testa (reportedly did nothing)
References
- ↑ http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/10/12/13-groups-apply-114th-street-brownstones
- ↑ http://bwog.com/2012/10/27/bb-campaigns-against-frats/
- ↑ http://bwog.com/2012/11/30/congratulations-youve-won/
- ↑ http://bwog.com/2012/10/12/brownstone-alley/
- ↑ http://bwog.com/2012/09/30/114th-streets-late-night-fate/
External Links
- Former AEPi president Matt Renick resigned from the Greek Judicial Board in a psycho email when AEPi didn't get its house back
- Renick talks about his resignation and the process
- The BRC's chosen three groups
- b@b fliered against frats getting the houses
- Spec article on the 13 applying groups
- A Bwog post on bias on the committee and KevSho's faulty PR-logic
- Bwog's post outing O'Leary as an SAE founding member
- The BRC's finalists
- The Bwog post announcing the committee's formation
- 13 groups that applied, via Spec
- A Spec op-ed "Too Greek for Comfort"
