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Did you know? In 1988 an 18-year-old Morehouse College student died hours after eyewitnesses said he was punched in the chest and slapped in the face during an Alpha Phi Alpha pledging ritual.
Did you know? Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia - Freshman Joel Harris, 18, dies of heart failure during a late-night pledging incident off-campus.
Did you know? 1996, Kappa Alpha Psi agreed to pay $2.25 million to the parents of a Southeast Missouri State University student who died in 1994 after a pledge ceremony, commonly called a "set" or "session."
Did you know? In 1991, two Phi Beta Sigma men at Clark Atlanta University were accused by the Atlanta Police Department of hitting three initiates. Phi Beta Sigma fraternity was suspended pending an investigation of the alleged hazing of 21-year old sophomore Roderick Green, and 20-year old Willie Mingo. Each contend that they were beaten with a wooden paddle about the buttocks and kidney areas, resulting in kidney damage to both. Also confirmed hospitalization of one the men.
Did you know? Approximately one year later, on the same campus, 10 student members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity are arrested on charges of hazing after beating James Albert Bush, 20, with their hands, fists, rubber tires and a wooden paddle, also resulting in severe kidney damage, as well as bruises to his calves and arms.
Did you know? The first black fraternity (still existing today), Sigma Pi Phi, was formed in Philadelphia in 1904 as an associationof professionals in that city`s African American community. However, it was not until 1906 that the first black collegiate fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, was founded on the campus of Cornell University. One black intercollegiate frat not existing today was Alpha Kappa Nu in 1903!
Did you know?That in 1997, because of hazing incident( involving Sylvester Lloyd), Alpha Phi Alpha no longer has it`s alpha chapter (original)? It`s prized Cornell chapter by Cornell University, the Alpha Chapter`s status as a recognized fraternity was revoked and Cornell attempted to sell the chapter`s house at 409 Elmwood Avenue. The chapter was re-instated in 2003. After the Alphas begged for another chance...
more details here..
http://www.deltasigmatheta.com/haze01.htm
Did you know? The University of Maryland at College Park - 24 members of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity chapter were arrested and charged with hazing after six pledges are brutalized in a rite of initiation. Police accounts reveal that the would-be members were kicked, punched, beaten and whipped over a two-month period, resulting in serious injuries requiring the hospitalization of all of the victims. The most seriously injured pledge suffered a ruptured spleen and a collapsed lung, while another was treated for liver damage, cracked ribs and a punctured eardrum resulting in a 70-percent loss of hearing. Other reported injuries among the six young men included a fractured ankle and a concussion.
check out Insight4_Pledge@bp.com
Did you know? Southern University, Baton Rouge, La. - during an initiation meeting of prospective members, a "big brother" of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity hits 23-year-old Derone Walker over thehead with a frying pan, blinding him. Doctors are unsure whether Walker will ever regain his sight.
Did you know? Cybil Thomas said repeated beatings of her 20-year-old son in thename of brotherhood (by LSU`s chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity)
left him with an open wound 7 inches around and a half-inch deep on his buttocks that required two surgeries, including a skin graft, to repair. In one operation, the open wound, originally about 3 inches around, was cleaned and the dead and damaged skin removed. That left a wound more than 7 inches in diameter, large enough to almost cover one buttock cheek.
Did you know? Kent State University, Kent, Oh. - The university was forced to ban black greek sponsored dances and parties because of a series of fights involving the KAY, Omega Psi Phi and PBS fraternity members.
fore details.. http://www.emory.edu/FIRE/febmar-98/p2.html
Did you know? Kristin High, 22, and Kenitha Saafir, 24, drowned September 9 at Dockweiler State Beach near Playa del Rey. The women were both students at California State University, Los Angeles, and were pledging the Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) Sorority. High was the mother of a 2-year-old and was engaged to be married. Several members of the sorority were with them that night, along with two other pledges, according to the lawsuit by theHigh family. Saafir and High were "blindfolded and tied bytheir hands and their bodies and led into the rip tide conditions of the ocean," the family`s lawsuit says. "That night, the waves were cresting at 6 to 8 feet and creating a strong under-current resulting from rip-tide." The sorority is presently being sued for 100 million dollars.
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Did you know? Joseph T. Green, 25, died after he collapsed on the track of a local high school before dawn on Jan. 29, 2001. Nashville medical examiner Bruce Levy concluded last March that Green, whowas admitted to the hospital with a temperature of 103.7, died of acuteasthma and overheating after he was ordered to jog and perform calisthenics during a fraternity initiation. Consequently, a $15 million lawsuit filed against Omega Psi Phi fraternity.
Did you know? The University of Florida at Gainesville - Phi Beta Sigma and Kappa Alpha Psi fraternities are suspended indefinitely because members of each hurled vulgar profanities at each other, kicked in doors, fought with fists and canes and exchanged gunfire at an off-campus apartment building. The confrontation was over, of all things, which had the best step show skills, and the finest clothing (So much for the next generation of intellectuals).
Did you know? If you ever apply for membership you have to sign a document stating that you will not submit yourself to pledging, pre-pledging or the sort! If you do participate you could be barred from attaining membership within the organization.
Did you know? Norfolk State University (Va.) - A student pledging Omega Psi Phi complains about both sides of his jaw being broken, and the chapter is banned from campus. The university later suspends all of its fraternities and sororities after widespread reports of hazing continue.
Did you know? 1998, the Kappa Alpha Psi chapter at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne allegedly started an unauthorized initiation of five new members, according to news accounts. The plan was to schedule underground "pre-pledging" and "post-pledging" processes before and after the official MIP, which started at the end of February and ended March 8. The underground pledging brought the process to about eight weeks.
During pledging sessions, each Kappa would usually paddle the new pledgesthree times, according to newspaper accounts. Depending on how many alumni brothers showed up for the fun, pledges were hit anywhere between 15 and 45 times a night every night for two months, according to those same accounts.The five line-brothers, who had each paid about $500 in dues, tried to remain steadfast. But Marcus Polk finally went to a campusnurse, who discovered that the Kappas had broken so many of the veins in his backside that the pooling blood had coagulated into huge lumps beneath his oozing, broken skin. He had a life-threatening gangrene infection and was taken to Peninsula Medical Center for surgery to remove two 4-inch hunks of dead flesh from his behind, according to news reports.
Did you know? The second name of Kappa Alpha Psi was Kappa Alpha Nu, but was changed after they gained the nick name Kappa Alpha N1gga! The first name of KAY was Alpha Omega!
Did you know? Five Kappas beat and hospitalized a pledge at Georgia State University in March. According to news accounts, they had been arrested.
Did you know? A Phi Beta Sigma pledge at Michigan StateUniversity suffered kidney damage after being paddled inMarch. According to the Associated Press, to avoid accusations of hazing, the chapter`s president claimed that the pledge was already a member and had been voluntarily "trading wood" in a hitting contest to see who was toughest.
Did you know? A Sigma pledge was treated in May after being beaten at West Virginia University, where another fraternity, Omega Phi Psi, had been banned for hazing in 1996.
Did you know? An Alpha pledge was hospitalized at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where the chapter had already received a five-year suspension for beating a student in 1994. It was later discovered that the brothers running the process were from an entirely different campus and had never sent the pledges` dues to Alpha headquarters.
Did you know? An Omega pledge was hospitalized after being beaten at Mississippi State University in February.
Did you know? A Delta Sigma Theta sorority pledge was placed into an intensive care unit after she was hazed at Norfolk State University in Virginia. In May, an appeals court judgeupheld Norfolk`s decision to expel nine Deltas involved in the incident. Two were just weeks from graduation.
Did youknow? In April, the Zeta Phi Beta sorority was thrown off the University of South Florida campus for four years after being charged with paddling pledges.
Did you know? Every year since 1970 in the United States, at least one fraternity or sorority member or pledge has died because of hazing or alcohol abuse, said Hank Nuwer, authorof the book "Wrongsof Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing and Binge Drinking."
Did you know? More than 40 states have outlawed hazing. Large financial settlements have caught the attention of Greek organizations and their college sponsors, leading many universities to ban the groups outright. More than 80 pledges (potentially brilliant minds) have died in pledge activities in the last 12 years during rites that involved binge drinking, beatings and extreme physical exertion; there's still no shortage of Black collegians who feel that they need to identify with something-to belong.
Did you know? it is against federal law to haze someone! You could lose your financial aid if you haze someone else? Federal Hazing Prohibition Act of 2003
Did you know? black fraternities and sororities in this country are older than General Motors? Older than AT&T. But have no real power because most black fraternities and sororities are predicated on a lot of craziness.
Do black Greek fraternities as we know them truly wield any real political or economic clout?
If so, when will they come to realize that and begin to exercise some ofit? Have the numerous chapters of these organizations nationwide collectively come forward lately to voice an opinion or to take a position on any serious issue relative to the black community in America? And if so, why aren`t the masses of black people aware of it? Have our beloved "Greeks" embraced any pertinent cause of recent years, come together as a unified force and taken some visible effective organized action either to positively influence or to effect change?
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In the end, I say that anyone can go along with the group! I will continue, standing against the grain, because this is something that I believe in.
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