Tag: Fraternities & Sororities: Page 30

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Pledging a brother, not intaking a “paper brother.”

The following story allegedly took place on a public historically Black college campus in Maryland last year. Because the tradition of pledging has been officially replaced by the National Pan-Hellenic Council with a “Membership Intake Process,” all forms of hazing have prohibited. The author signed a document promising not to be involved in any pledging activities. To avoid sanctions, he asked that his name not be given. The author is currently working on a master’s degree. Although the name Gamma Delta is used, it is not the real of the fraternity chapter involved.

July 10, 2007

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Frat-ricide: are African American fraternities beating themselves to death? – includes related articles on the National Pan-Hellenic Council, its statement on hazing and its membership development efforts – Cover Story

“They took him into a room and five members of the fraternity attacked him. They punched and kicked him. I asked if he ever got the urge to swing back and he said, `We can’t.’ He said he had been kicked in the head.”

July 10, 2007

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Zippy the Pinhead visits Johns Hopkins’ Homewood Campus

BALTIMORE Comic strip character Zippy the Pinhead, on his recent visit to Baltimore, had a few words for his elected representative.

July 4, 2007

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Kettering University student killed in accidental shooting

AUBURN HILLS Mich. A South Lyon man accidentally shot and killed a fraternity brother at a party while playing with a gun, police said.

July 2, 2007

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Investigation of UVA fraternity rape case stalled despite confession

RICHMOND Va. More evidence is needed to prosecute two suspects in a 1984 sexual assault case even though a recovering alcoholic recently confessed to the crime as part of his 12-step program and promised to help investigators, the victim said Tuesday.

July 2, 2007

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Athletes, outcasts and partyers – films about African Americans in higher education

Films about African Americans in higher education are a relatively new phenomenon but they, like other films about Blacks, still frequently resort to stereotypes.

June 15, 2007

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Broken Bonds: Are Black Greek Organizations Making Themselves Irrelevant?

It is rare that one finds a venue to advance balanced, yet critical, debate over Black Greek Letter Organizations, or BGLOs.

June 13, 2007

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New Facts, Still Mind-boggling

BALTIMORE CITY, Md. After first lying to police that they were shot in a gas station robbery, and then claiming to invite a gun wound in an attempt to avoid a fraternity initiation, one shooting victim has confessed the true reason why he asked a Morgan State University student to shoot him — to avoid National Guard duty in Iraq.

May 24, 2007

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University Drops Sorority Accused of Image Discrimination

GREENCASTLE, Ind. — DePauw University announced Monday it has severed ties with the Delta Zeta sorority, where a mass eviction of members left people questioning whether looks and appearance were valued more than academics and other contributions.

March 11, 2007

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Young Mothers Find Sisterhood in Missouri College Sorority

ST. LOUIS Magic Markers, bubble wands and jungle-animal stickers aren’t often found in the average college student’s backpack. But for the women of Mu Tau Rho, a new sorority for student-mothers at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, those toys are every bit as vital as laptop computers and e-mail accounts.

March 8, 2007

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‘Stomp’ Steps Into the Mainstream

Gregory Anderson left Tallahassee after graduating from Florida A&M University in 1996 with hopes of jumpstarting a career in the film industry…

February 21, 2007

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Perspectives: To End Hazing, Sending Promising Black Men to Jail Is Not The Answer

The real tragedy of the FAMU hazing case is that two promising Black men will spend two years in jail rubbing shoulders with serial rapists and murderers.

February 10, 2007