Sorry everybody, but I guess you can see by my posts, that I am new to the forum, so I am replying to all of these old posts first.
This goes out to Tillennium01 if she is still interested.
I was born and raised in Nashville,Tn, so I know a great deal about Tennessee State University, and all that is going on on it's campus.
TSU is a wonderful school with a rich African American history. However, in the recent past, the state has been threatening to close TSU down unless it made it's enrollement 50% Black and 50% White. They have been giving out "minority" scholarships to White's like crazy in an attempt to meet these standards. (I should state that I mean no disrespect to anyone when I say "whites", just stating what is going on there) That is how Sigma Pi got on the TSU campus in the first place.
Now, at TSU, the students are not just sitting back and taking this without a fight. They have picketted at the state capitol, they have arranged sit-ins and the whole nine. The reason they are fighting it is because UT Knoxville is also a state school, but the state is not forcing them to level out the demographics of their enrollement. Neither are they complaining about other schools such as Middle Tennessee State, or Austin Peay State, because these schools, in the TSU student's oppinion and factually, are predominantly white. This year, they threatened to revoke TSU's accredidation if the "numbers" aren't up to parr.
So, the student's feel that if Sigma Pi is going to be on their campus, they are not going to be exclusive. To my knowledge, at this time there are still no minority members affiliated with the group.
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