Dan Kirschner, 20, a junior at Northern Illinois University in De Kalb, said his fraternity of business students, Delta Sigma Pi, decided not to raise money through the credit seminars.
Wamboldt was hired to focus on so-called high-status men, such as those involved in athletics and fraternities, a group of students who hadn't, up to that point, spoken much with the ethnographers, perhaps wary of the possibility that they'd be portrayed badly in whatever the researchers wrote up.
In 2003, the campus gained national notoriety when MTV's reality show Fraternity Life documented the lives of students pledging Delta Omega Chi.
Greek life enjoys a strong presence on campus, as around half of students join a social fraternity or sorority.
This is something schools have had for over a century, but these vaults were only available to small groups of students (e.g., a fraternity).
Close to a third of students are members of fraternities and sororities.
Students protested in front of the fraternity house, as students at other campuses gathered to show solidarity.
"A firm may look like a corporation, yes, but we're all part of a fraternity of lawyers," said the Ivy League student.
About a third of students participate in Greek life, with fraternities competing in an annual Homecoming Chariot Race.
April Thompson, the new dean of students, said Binghamton was working with national fraternity and sorority organizations and bringing in advisers to review the system.
According to the prosecution, Ewosa is the head of the feared Nigerian clan Black Axe, a criminal organisation born as a sort of student fraternity in the 1970s at the University of Benin City.
