I'm not a big poster as you can see, but as a Greek college student in Georgia this issue has hit close to home for me. I don't know if anyone has mentioned this article, I tried to read all 20 pages of posts, but I just don't have time.
Anyways, I found this very interesting:
"In Oct. 1992, the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity (Pikes) and the Fashion Board enraged black students by pretending to have large lips, padding their buttocks, wearing Afro wigs and painting their faces black at a ''Party in the Projects.'' Photos also showed two white students dressed as blacks kneeling at the feet of a purported Ku Klux Klan grand dragon.
Black Student Association member Sonya Myles said then: ''It was totally atrocious. In my opinion, with people praising the Grand Dragon - that is justification for them being thrown off the campus completely."
A disciplinary committee penalized both groups. But the groups appealed, arguing they were expressing their free speech rights. They won the appeal."
So it looks like something similar has happened to another Pike chapter before and they escaped trouble. I have a feeling this time will turn out the same. Too bad current college students were unable to hear about and learn from previous mistakes since people that are seniors in college now were about 10 when this happened.
Also, while I think what the Pikes did is ignorant and distasteful, I think the flyers that the Black Student Alliance posted at GSU were equally ignorant and distasteful which makes it hard for me to take their organization seriously.
P.S. I really wouldn't be offended if black students wanted to dress up as rednecks, paint their faces white, and have a hoedown social. Maybe I'm just not as easily offended, but it really wouldn't bother me. I thought a social was supposed to be fun, not so politically correct... But that's just my little, measly opinion, don't let that offend you.
