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Originally posted by KEPike
how so? I've never heard of anything bad related to this chapter, and I know several of their alumni.
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In 1992, this chapter played a nasty prank on their campus rivals, the gentlemen of Kappa Sigma. Kappa Sigma had just admitted an African American pledge, so the guys in PiKA took it upon themselves to make a 'protest'.
The garbage cans in the University Center had those words spelled out on them in stick-on letters. The Pikes rearranged/altered some of the letters on the can so that it spelled "Nigers Enter" (their misspelling, not mine) and put it in front of the Kappa Sigma chapter room.
There had been other incidents of racial tensions/racially insensitive behavior that involved this chapter, but because the Dean of Students (at the time) was also a Pike, nothing was ever done.
What's interesting to me is that a couple of years after this incident, the chapter admitted a black/white biracial member. I'd be interested to hear what this alum has to say about the incident.
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