My alma mater: "ASU expels fraternity after 'racially insensitive' MLK party"

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http://www.azfamily.com/news/ASU-expels-fraternity-after-racially-insensitive-MLK-party-241757071.html

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Arizona State University has permanently revoked its recognition of Tau Kappa Epsilon as a fraternity chapter at the school, university officials announced Thursday.

The fraternity was recently suspended following accusations that members held a distasteful party in commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Civil rights leaders called for disciplinary action after partygoers were seen wearing stereotypical clothing, flashing gang signs and holding watermelon-shaped cups in photos that surfaced on social media and gained national attention

As a recent graduate living close to campus, I can tell you this is getting a lot of local attention.

[iamthebandfanman]

1. now now...

surely you don't think the former fraternity of Ronald Reagan , whos grand national president is right wing nut Bob Barr, would ever let anything racist happen in any part of their organization....
lol.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

2. here's a workable link...

http://www.azfamily.com/news/ASU-expels-fraternity-after-racially-insensitive-MLK-party-241757071.html

Link in the OP didn't work for me anyway...

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3. Sorry fixed the link and photo.

[Hepburn]

4. How disgusting...

...revoking their charter...not enough.

[iamthebandfanman]

5. once you realize

they are the former fraternity of Ronald Reagan and that former house member and current wingnut Bob Barr is the national president...
not really that surprising...
lol

[Hepburn]

7. Isn't that just the truth!

I remember frats from UCSB...in the 1960s. Except for the SAE's -- who drove Jags -- frat boys were basically living the life of "Animal House." Even the jock frats were OK. It was all sex, more sex, and party time. I cannot imagine any frat pulling stunt like those ASU assholes.

[woolldog]

9. Sounds like you were quite the party animal...

back in the day.

[SoapBox]

8. RR was a TKE?

Nothing to be proud of, IMHO.

p.s...living in my fraternity's house for 4 years in the Seventy's, are the best memories of my college years.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

6. "...intelligence is not enough."

As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote in the Morehouse College campus newspaper in 1947: "We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education."

[Cha]

11. There ya go.. perfect quote from

MLK for commentary on this particular situation.

Tau Kappa Epsilon has disgraced themselves at ASU and I can't imagine the national org and other chapters feeling too good about that.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

12. It's in a statement from the ASU President

at the end of the article. Intelligence by itself can be a tool
for truly awful stuff. Never been too impressed
by intelligence or degrees, by themselves.

[leftynyc]

10. Another Sundevil here

Graduated in 1982 and wasn't surprised in the least to read this story.

[Sheldon Cooper]

13. This sort of thing seems to happen every year when MLK Day rolls around.

At what point will our kids learn that this is offensive and inappropriate?