Publications
A RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION AND EXPRESSIVE ASSOCIATION RIGHTS
Tim Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com The right of religious-oriented student groups to enforce their religious principles on the organization’s officers and members is coming under increasing national debate. Many universities have policies that prohibit campus organizations from discriminating based upon...
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DEFERRED RUSH AT COLORADO?
Tim Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com Lynn “Gordie” Bailey, a Colorado University student, died from alcohol poisoning in September of 2004. The Denver Post reported that he died “the morning after he and other Chi Psi pledges were told to drink...
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IS THERE STILL SPEECH FREEDOM?
Robert Manley, Manley Burke A professor at Rhode Island College, a tax supported institution in Providence, survived an institutional witch hunt. Professor Church volunteered her time as a coordinator for Rhode Island College’s Cooperative Preschool Program. While she was not...
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LATINO-GREEKS ARRIVE
Robert Manley, Manley Burke Now that the people of Hispanic ancestry have been recognized by the U.S. Bureau of Census as the largest identifiable minority group in the United States, they are going Greek in an enthusiastic way on campuses...
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EDUCATIONAL GRANTS FROM FOUNDATION TO FRATERNITY
Barbara Schwartz Bromberg Introduction: Many times in the course of my practice, I am asked by fraternal organization clients, the appropriate parameters for requesting grants from their affiliated Code Section 501(c)(3) foundations. Similarly, fraternal foundations are concerned with the same...
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HAZARDS OF DECORATIVE PARTY POOLS
Robert Manley, Manley Burke A 20-year-old University of Texas student is suing a fraternity Chapter for $25,000,000. Leslie Holloway claims his fraternity Chapter, Alpha Tau Omega, recently operated and built an unlicensed pool. He claims it was improperly designed, had...
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CHAPTER HOUSES AND FRATERNITY CULTURE
Robert Manley, Manley Burke With an attention-grabbing title, “The War on Frat Culture And Why Maybe That’s Not So Totally Great, Dude,” the New York Times magazine did a multi-page spread on dry fraternity houses. It was written by Phi...
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