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Swarthmore Fraternities Disband Over Leaked Documents That Detailed Misogyny

"We were appalled and disgusted by the content of these minutes, which led us to question our affiliation with an organization," current members of Phi Psi said in a statement Tuesday night.

The only two fraternities at Swarthmore College have unanimously agreed to disband and give up their houses, ending a four-day sit-in and weeks of protest by outraged students after the publication of documents chronicling years of misogynist, racist and homophobic remarks, as well as jokes alluding to sexual assault by members.

The decisions to dissolve Phi Kappa Psi, better known as Phi Psi, and Delta Upsilon were announced on Facebook on Tuesday night, after what both said were weeks of deliberation.

The controversy began last month, after campus publications and released anonymously leaked from Phi Psi,

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