UPDATED: Arizona Frat Suspended For Throwing 'MLK Black Party'

[DonViejo]

Last edited Fri Jan 24, 2014, 09:25 AM - Edit history (1)

Source: TPM

CAITLIN MACNEAL – JANUARY 21, 2014, 1:59 PM EST

Arizona State University officials suspended its chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon after the fraternity threw a "MLK Black Party" over the weekend, a school representative told CBS 5 Arizona.

At the unofficial, off-campus party, students dressed in basketball jerseys, displayed gang signs and drank from watermelon cups, according to photos obtained by CBS.

ASU condemned the party, calling the event "misguided" and "offensive," and said the fraternity, which was already on social probation, held the party off campus without university permission.

"ASU has one of the most diverse student bodies of any major university in the country, and it is unfortunate that a few misguided individuals held an offensive party at a time when ASU, the state and the nation are celebrating Dr. King's achievements and legacy. The university will not tolerate this kind of behavior," a statement from the university reads.

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UPDATED:

Arizona university revokes fraternity's charter over "racially insensitive" party
BY DAVID SCHWARTZ
PHOENIX Fri Jan 24, 2014 2:49am EST

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014704202#post22

Thank you, Eugene!

[AverageJoe90]

1. What a buncha fuckin' morons. nt

[madaboutharry]

2. +1

No need to add anything more, you said it perfectly.

[roguevalley]

16. if I live a million more years, I will never NEVER GET IT!

[mpcamb]

19. This is SO Republican!

The Oregon GOP group defends gunraffling off an AR-15 rifle to “celebrate the legacy” of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr.
The moron legislator in Pennsylvania who wants a "faith based amendment that would allow discrimination for religious reasons".
The Florida state House candidate who advocated for President Barack Obama's execution on Twitter.

Is anyone else tired of their frat-boy act?
I'm so weary of it I'd love to see their asses sent to jail.
Hell, find some appropriate charge.

[another_liberal]

3. ". . . aid to college men in mental, moral and social development."

Oh well, so much for that mission statement.

[CatWoman]

4. "and said the fraternity, which was already on social probation"

could double secret not be far behind?

[onehandle]

5. How many of these guys are, or will be, GOP operatives/candidates? nt

[1StrongBlackMan]

6. I really hope this ...

"I'll be meeting with the school as well as the local chapter, as I said, to really flush out the details of this incident and get a full scope of what occurred," Patrick Gleason, the director of compliance and housing at TKE, told CBS.

was an editorial typo error. If not, doesn't that give a different meaning to his statement? ... One, I hope, he did not intend to communicate?

[WatermelonRat]

11. What do you mean?

The statement makes sense to me. "Flush out" means to force something out of hiding (as in "The dogs were sent into the woods to flush out the pheasants&quot . It's use in this context is a bit unusual, but the meaning is still clear.

[1StrongBlackMan]

18. Okay ...

But as a, born and bred, City Boy ... the term "flush" means "get rid of", "dump, wholesale". But I can see how you took it.

[alp227]

7. These kinds of stories piss me off to no end.

I bet taxpayers who complain about "WELFARE MOOCHERS" have no problem subsidizing "education" of morons like these ignorant shithead frat boys. Wonder why. Because...they've got the right pigmentation?

I am a college student right now. It is so annoying that I have to co-exist on campus with ignorant boobs like these who are intellectually, culturally, and socially CLUELESS. WHY? WHY? WHY? WHY?

Let me tell these stupid boys (I refuse to address them as men for a reason) something. If you can't understand what is wrong with this party, you do not belong in an institution of higher education. Full stop.

I think high school diplomas need CULTURAL LITERACY. This is the god damn 21st century. America isn't going to be a white majority nation much sooner. Yes, people with different skin pigmentations and facial features deserve respect too. New generations of Americans will have to fuckin' deal with it. White entitlement mentality has to go. But with the "basic education" of No Child Left Behind fucking over the public schools for a decade and more under both Bush and Obama it's gonna be a damn long time for stupid "MLK Frat Parties" to be extinct.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. I disagree with the frat

oh, boy, another frat misstep

but how is this different from Westboro protests?

It's free speech, however obnoxious.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

14. So, being no different than the Westboro protesters is a good thing?

Are you saying the college has no right to discipline them?

[bucolic_frolic]

15. no it falls in the realm of sensitvity training

and the college should do as they should to produce educated, tolerant, unbigotted
graduates.

If it were held off campus but not under the auspices of the frat then it's free free speech

The college should discipline, but they must realize that there are a small percent of the
population that cannot be educated to be tolerant and will believe what they want to believe

I'm not supporting the frat party, if that's what you're asking.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

20. You never know if an entity publicly chastising bigoted behavior really cares or is doing it

for PR purposes, but it's better than doing nothing or defending it.

[gopiscrap]

9. Good get rid of their charter

typical frat behavior. I lived in a dorm and then an apartment and we (everyone I knew) never pulled that shit. These frat clowns must have been raised by republicans!

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

10. Is this why I marched for civil rights?

Didn't the state of Arizona at one time, opt out of participating in the national MLK Holiday?
Then again, I've never liked frat rats.

[truebluegreen]

13. There's a reason why "frat boys" earned a bad rep...even before Dumya. nt

[Paladin]

17. How come this shit keeps happening, year after year after year? (nt)

It's way past time for the governing bodies of fraternities and sororities to issue national warnings to all active chapters that this kind of behavior won't be tolerated.

[Blue_Tires]

21. I was wondering the same thing

because let's be honest; some major university somewhere has a greek organization have some really distasteful "ethnic themed" party...It's like clockwork 2-3 times per semester...

Can anyone even explain to me what the 'appeal' of these parties are?

[Eugene]

22. Arizona university revokes fraternity's charter over "racially insensitive" party

Source: Reuters

Arizona university revokes fraternity's charter over "racially insensitive" party

BY DAVID SCHWARTZ
PHOENIX Fri Jan 24, 2014 2:49am EST

(Reuters) - Arizona State University said on Thursday it had permanently severed ties with a campus fraternity whose members threw a party with a "racially-insensitive" theme that has drawn outrage from leaders in the black community and beyond.

The large public university said it revoked the chapter status of Tau Kappa Epsilon and is investigating students for policy violations for the event on January 19, a day before a U.S. holiday honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It is unfortunate that a few individuals held an offensive party at a time when ASU, the state and the nation were celebrating Dr. King's achievements and legacy," the school said in a statement.

Pictures circulated on social media websites showed white students dressed in sports jerseys and baggy clothes, flashing gang signs and drinking out of watermelon cups. The behavior drew swift and harsh condemnation.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/24/us-usa-frat-arizona-idUSBREA0N0C020140124