KA recants, sarcasm gets you booted!

[Pike4Life]

Hey GC'ers, you may have heard about the KA case at Tennessee, well I just read this in this week's issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education:

TALL TALES, BIG TROUBLE
Even Bluto Blutarsky, the boorish fraternity pledgemaster of Animal House fame, could have learned a lesson or two from the Kappa Alpha Order at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
In February, when The Daily Beacon, the student newspaper, asked Patrick Diener, the chapter's president, why the fraternity's national headquarters had suspended the club, Mr. Diener suggested that it might have been the weekly tradition of hiring a stripper. Or maybe the frequent cockfights. Most likely, though, it was the chapter's practice of "liquoring up" local homeless men and inciting them to fight one another.
Mr. Diener later retracted his statements, saying he had concocted them out of frustration and a desire to satirize the real allegations: serving alcohol a chapter meetings and hiring a stripper once.
But the damage was done, the story as picked up by the national news media, and headquarters was not happy. The organization and the university are now considering dissolving the chapter, which was founded in 1887.
"The university and my organization have taken a public-relations black ey," says Larry Wise, the Kappa Alpha Order's national president.
W. Timothy Rogers, the campus's vice provost for student affairs, says the First Amendment prevents the university from taking action against Mr. Diener. But the charges against the fraternity are fair game.
"They did not do the things they told the Beacon," he says, but "they did indeed have a stripper at one meeting, and they did have alcohol."

Can you believe it! I guess sarcasm can kill you!