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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 07:42 PM
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Duke University: Childish Frat Boy Crap...
Despicable. God help fraternities if I ever become a university president!


http://www.chronicle.duke.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/09/17/3f685d8b3244f

Sigma Chi party outrages Latinos

by Aaron Levine
September 17, 2003

Members of the University's Latino community are furious over Sigma Chi fraternity's "Viva Mexico" party, held last Saturday night.
The concerned students and faculty said they see the party--which included invitations in the form of expired green cards and a "border control" at the door--as derogatory towards Mexicans and Latinos, and as a continuing example of how Latinos are marginalized on campus and beyond.

"It isn't just this one weekend; it isn't just Sigma Chi. I've been here three years and this is the straw that broke the camel's back," said Omar Rashid, a joint-MDJD candidate and president of the Duke Hispanic/Latino Law Student Association.

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bbernardini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 07:59 PM
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1. Some of the comments are ignorant as well...
Perhaps the other side should be represented? :)
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screaming_meme Donating Member (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 08:45 PM
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2. My god, what have we become?
What's next? Cross-burning mixers with the phi-delts?
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-23-03 08:51 PM
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3. I refused to date guys who were in fraternities
too f***ing juvenile
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