Ole Miss: Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Closed for Hazing
 

According to the July 6, 2005 issue of the Daily Mississippian Online, the Ole Miss chapte of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. has been "kicked off campus." The university declined to comment on the exact alleged events leading to this action, but said that hazing was definitely involved. The sorority is suspended from Ole Miss until the fall of 2008. It may petition to return.

Article is at:

http://www.thedmonline.com/vnews/dis.../42cbce7d53bad

From reading the posts at www.stophazing.org (which has become a discussion board for the divine nine), there is still quite a debate among and about members who have endured the traditional hazing and beating (and has long been officially banned) and the members accepted without hazing/beating.

The non-hazed members are put down and called "paper" members.

The St. John's (NY) lawsuit this year (hazers found not guilty) was about a BGLO member who was being dissed as a "paper", and he thought enduring a little hazing/beating would make him a better and more accepted member. He got a little more than he expected, so he sued the hazers (and lost).

I don't have an exact count, but it seems to me that the BGLO chapters are being suspended/expelled in large numbers - far more in proportion compared to their numbers.

Sure, there are many more traditional GLOs suspended/expelled (Pi Kappa Phi-Berkeley this week) but there are so many more of them.

The Sad Part, it is on both ends.

As said, the NPHC looks bad because of the 9 Member GLOs.

With the others of NIC and NHC with many more, it still looks like Hell when they Screw Up!:(

Agree?

In reality, there may be a reason for this. Hazing is the achilles heel of BGLOs, similar to alcohol in "histically white GLOs. The real issue becomes the cultural sea change that needs to take palce to ameliorate this problem, so that our(BGLOs) can exist on the undergrad level. An interesting read is 'Black Haze," a popularized version of a dissertation by a Univ. of Louisville faculty member, and Nupe (a moniker for smember of Kappa Alpha Psi). he has some very provocative thoughts in regards to the sociocultural framing of this issue. FOr him, it's not just a matter of miscreant behaviour by some "bad apples," it also involves matters of masculine identity of black males (esp.) in a society where they always have to "prove" themselves in a "racist" society. A good read!

"Que Psi Phi 'til the day I die!"

Ricky L. Jones, Ph.D., author of 'Black Haze' received his Ph.D. in Political Philosophy and Comparative Politics from The University of Kentucky. :D