I have doctors in my family....I would be HIGHLY offended

Exactly. The racist invite was one thing, and the brother responsible for it has been disciplined accordingly. But the BSU took it upon themselves to go find something to cry foul over, and like all people looking for something in particular, they found it. I think it's kind of pathetic to give this issue national attention when it could have been solved discreetly. But then how would we all know that the Sigma Chis at JHU are racist idiots otherwise?

I had to just point out this little piece of idiocy.

idiot.

Agreed. Maybe we should just sit in our fraternity houses and do nothing all year long.

Are you insulting my sarcasm?

Editorial (long) from the Johns Hopkins student paper:

http://www.jhunewsletter.com/media/s...newsletter.com

They are more than just a "student org." They are a student and administration-created organization to represent some of the goals and interests of the black student body.

You have enough of your own posts to use to highlight idiocy.

Shut up. If you can't leave your fraternity house without offending a group of people then you're a waste of flesh and college tuition.

Is that what they did? Now you're doing what you claim they are doing--speaking/acting based on only part of the story. The "racist slant" was supposedly in the advertisement for it. So, there was no need for them to open their minds to the idea that the party advertisement would be trumped by the turnout.

I am sure that someone could be "offended" by just about everything we do...no matter how dumb or idiotic we may think it is for them to feel that way.

I have a tendency to agree with this because it really seems like one dude's poor judgement here. However, he did represent the fraternity at the time, there still should be some action (think PR here) by the fraternity to show that they're not all racist. One of the fraternities here got in trouble over what one guest to their party wore, so they ended up hosting/attending a couple seminars and discussion panels about rascism on campus. The incident seems to have smoothed over now because they took the time to say "hey, we're not all mean" to the campus.

Well they didn't walk inside the house and decided an obvious pirate skeleton (from Pirates of the Caribbean, no less. It's an exact replica of the one from the film) was a reenactment of a lynching. So I'd say yes, there is need to open your mind up and assess the entire situation.
By the way, couldn't you have just copied and pasted all the quotes you're responding to in one big post?
I didn't just read part of the story. I read the news story, then I read the response given by one of the founders of that chapter. I expressed my opinion based upon my knowledge, which, ultimately is what we are all doing, yourself included.

So the BSU should have certain authority to conduct investigations. They're just a student organization, or at least they should be.

Also, its college. You know, the place where you go to branch out, try new things, expand your whatever...blah blah blah. That is of course, so long as it doesn't ruffle anyone's feathers. I find it ironic that university paid professors can say God doesn't exist and compare Bush to Hitler, but some racist/semi-racist/not at all racist/whatever kids shouldn't be allowed to have a theme party.