Fraternities
Campus Social Organizations and Local Public Order (pledge‑week disturbances, campus revelry, and reputational effects on local politics)Description
Fraternities are decentralized, campus-based social organizations organized at the chapter level that run recruitment and initiation rituals. In the current material they function as sources of pledge‑week stunts and revelry—Leo cites pledge week as the recurring cause of minor security breaches (students hopping the White House fence) and frequent intrusions. Their observable methods include pranks, organized pledge activities, and local disorder that create episodic security disturbances and occasional reputational spillover into political and public‑order concerns.