Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott spearheads a Squire Patton Boggs lobbying push for the Safe Campus Coalition, a group representing national fraternities and sororities.
SPC members include the National Panhellenic Conference, North American Interfraternity Conference, Kapa Alpha Order, Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity and Sigma Nu Fraternity.
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Jean Mrasek, NPC chairman, said in a "special message" on advocacy efforts that alumni leaders from fraternities and sororities will visit DC on April 29 to build support for the Collegiate Housing Infrastructure Act, preservation of single sex exception status as part of Title IX and countering sexual violence on campuses.
Lott is joined in the lobbying push by Greg Louer, former policy director to Congressman Marsha Blackburn; Emily Zammit Jacobs, ex-legislator coordinator for Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart, and Hannibal Kemerer; one-time counsel at the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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