Tag: Fraternities & Sororities: Page 29

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College Student Accused of Terror Threat

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. He seemed in many ways a typical college student — president of his fraternity at Southern Illinois University, an aspiring rapper who wrote about finding a girlfriend who could cook. He said his favorite book was the Bible.

July 25, 2007

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Yale Junior Found with Guns Arraigned on Charges of Threatening

NEW HAVEN Conn. A Yale University student who is accused of firing a gun in the living room of his off-campus fraternity house over the weekend has been arraigned on charges of reckless endangerment, threatening and breach of peace.

July 18, 2007

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Sour Note for the Marching 100

New allegations of band hazing officials looking for a way to stop a problem they thought had been tamed

July 14, 2007

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Large Black Voter Turnout Helped Usher In New House Leadership

Strong voter turnout among African Americans helped Democrats pick up five U.S. House of Representatives seats and avoid any net losses in the Senate in the November 3 election.

July 14, 2007

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News Briefs

WASHINGTON Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., the director of Harvard University’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, was among the nine honorees at the White House on November 5 to be presented the National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) 1998 National Humanities Medal.

July 14, 2007

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The Broken Pledges of Greek Life

Videoconference searches for ways to end fraternity and sorority hazing

July 14, 2007

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The persistent madness of Greek hazing: psychologists provide insight on why hazing persists among Black Greeks – fraternities; includes related articles – Cover Story

Mary Polk of Maryland didn’t learn that her son Marcus had been hospitalized until he called his brother when he came out of the operating room on April 8.

July 12, 2007

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When hazing leads to death: one campus’ response – Southeast Missouri State University

All campus administrators face issues of hazing, some with more urgency than others. Southeast Missouri State University faced a worse crisis than most in 1994 when twenty-five-year old Michael Davis — a journalism major — died after two weeks of hazing at the hands of his Kappa Alpha Psi brothers.

July 12, 2007

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College ends race-based scholarship programs at behest of Education Department – Northern Virginia Community College

ANNANDALE, Va. A Virginia community college will end five small ace-based scholarship programs following a complaint filed with the U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights.

July 11, 2007

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Debating the Relevance of Black Greek-Letter Organizations

Debating the Relevance of Black Greek-Letter Organizations The question about whether BGLOs are relevant or not could also be applied to other traditional Black organizations, i.e., the NAACP and the National Urban League, (see “Broken Bonds: Are Black Greek Organizations Making Themselves Irrelevant?” June 14). While these organizations are steeped in history, you would be […]

July 11, 2007

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Christian Fraternity Sues University of Florida, Claiming Discrimination

TAMPA Fla. A Christian fraternity sued the University of Florida on Tuesday, claiming discrimination because the university refuses to recognize it as a registered student group.

July 10, 2007

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Scholarship, sisterhood, service – black women in African American fraternities

When twenty-two young Black women came together at Howard University to form Delta Sigma Theta sorority, their goal was to focus on scholarship, sisterhood, and service to the African American community. A review of the sorority’s early history indicates that these young women, and the ones who followed them, did exactly that.

July 10, 2007