NIU’s Inter-Fraternity Council and Pan Hellenic Council met separately Monday night to pick their endorsements for the upcoming Student Association executive elections.

Representatives from fraternities and sororities were given the chance to discuss and vote on who they wanted to endorse in each of the four upcoming elections.

“We are going to go through each candidate and discuss them for three minutes,” said Tim Samp, president of the IFC. “Try to make the best educated decision you can make.”

Each office’s candidates were discussed separately, and candidates who are members of Greek chapters on campus were identified.

Chris Juhl, activities adviser for Greek affairs, spoke briefly concerning rumors he had heard about the candidates.

Several years ago, a number of Greek fraternities hosted afterhours, parties held after the bars were closed. Juhl said these parties were the source of a number of problems, ranging from what he called police brutality to Greeks fighting among themselves.

When the Greek system was almost kicked off campus six years ago, one of the stipulations for keeping them on campus was that afterhours would be eliminated, Juhl said.

The rumor, Juhl told the Greek chapters, is that some candidates were promising some Greek chapters they would remove the ban on the parties.

“I do want to mention that this will never happen,” Juhl said. “I guarantee the university will not allow history to repeat itself.”

Juhl would not divulge which candidates were rumored to be making the statements.

All of the candidates who were identified as Greeks were endorsed by both organizations. The only split decision came in the student trustee position.