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FSLSB HEARING BOARDS
FSLSB hearings are conducted through FSLSB Hearing Boards. The student members of a Hearing Board to consider a particular complaint will be selected from among the trained members of the FSLSB. The Hearing Board shall consist of six student representatives (three representatives from fraternities and three representatives from sororities/women’s fraternities), and one faculty/staff member from the trained University hearing board pool.
The Council Officers will be ex-officio, non-voting members of the Hearing Board. The Assistant Director of Fraternity and Sorority Life will serve as the Advisor to the Hearing Board, and will be required to be in attendance at all informal conferences and hearings. The Hearing Board will be convened by the Director for Fraternity and Sorority Life who will select and convene the hearing board members in a specific case.
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No FSLSB member may serve on a Hearing Board that is considering a case in which his or her own organization is either the complainant or the accused. All Hearing Board decisions require a majority vote of the voting members of the Hearing Board.
FSLSB Hearing Boards
Specifically, a Hearing Board will:
1. Review all evidence available to it. 2. Mediate disagreement inside the fraternity and sorority community as well as between the community and fraternity/sorority organizations. 3. Determine responsibility based on evidence of a violation of IFC, LMC, and/or PHC Constitutions, Fraternity/Sorority Guidelines , and/or any provision of The Code. 4. Recommend appropriate sanctions or penalties when an organization is found responsible for a violation.
The Hearing Board will evaluate complaints and determine whether or not an organization is responsible for a violation using a “preponderance of evidence” standard. Hearing Board members must consider all evidence properly before them. In so doing, it is their responsibility to objectively consider, evaluate and weigh the evidence, and to determine whether it is more likely than not that a violation occurred.
In instances where chapters assume responsibility for the alleged violation(s), an expedited process may be used. An expedited process must be agreed to by the chapter, the Director for Fraternity and Sorority Life and the Council Officers. This process permits the Hearing Board to meet with the chapter representatives and determine appropriate sanctions.
