UGa Chi Phis declared 'open season' on black women?

[Elephant Walk]

What does the ethnic make up of the county/town have anything to do with the University. Athens does not equal UGA.

for example:
my hometown is probably 15% black, however one of the colleges in my hometown is over 30%. In fact, it has one of the largest step shows in the South.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

What does the ethnic make up of the county/town have anything to do with the University. Athens does not equal UGA.

Because...

Originally Posted by shinerbock

UGA is pretty good school, and its far from backwoods. Athens is a pretty diverse town as well.

Main point, UGA is just about as diverse (ethnically and otherwise) as Athens is. No college or university exists outside of its surroundings, unless it intentionally has greater representations of certain groups, although I could not find UGA's demographic breakdown on its website. The photos on UGA's website are probably indicative of the level of ethnic diversity there. *smile*

Either way, I have friends in doctoral programs there and they aren't too impressed with UGA's or Athens' ethnic and income diversity. However, Atlanta has a similar issue with diversity but the difference is that ATL has 300,000 more people and blacks outnumber other races and ethnicities. I happen to like UGA and think this Chi Phi story shouldn't reflect poorly on the University.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

for example:
my hometown is probably 15% black, however one of the colleges in my hometown is over 30%. In fact, it has one of the largest step shows in the South.

[Elephant Walk]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

There's a reason they call it "End of the World Party", Black Greeks across the state and throughout the south come down to my hometown to step.

[shinerbock]

Well the school doesn't have many black people, thats been in the news I imagine everyone's heard about that over the years...however Athens has plenty of black people, at least from what I see. As for the law school, I think its something like 30 percent minority, its pretty diverse. By the way, a simple lack of black people does not keep an area from being "diverse"...

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by shinerbock

however Athens has plenty of black people, at least from what I see.

LOL.

[jon1856]

Originally Posted by shinerbock

Well the school doesn't have many black people, thats been in the news I imagine everyone's heard about that over the years...however Athens has plenty of black people, at least from what I see. As for the law school, I think its something like 30 percent minority, its pretty diverse. By the way, a simple lack of black people does not keep an area from being "diverse"...

Shiner'
Looked it up for you:
http://www.law.uga.edu/news/archives...ngclasspr.html
Class of 2009: total of 232 students:"
Just over one-quarter (25.4 percent) of the entering class indicated they are members of a minority group, making this class among the most diverse in law school history. Of the 59 minority students enrolled in the Class of 2009, 37 are African Americans."

And the rest of your comment, for the most part, I agree with.

[shinerbock]

I think one quarter is pretty diverse, but then again I'm just one of the 173 whities.

[DSTCHAOS]

Yes, UGA's law school is diverse--just like when HBCU graduate schools are filled with nonblacks. In such instances the graduate applicants are not representative of the larger university or its surroundings.

Not having black people doesn't make a place not ethnically diverse if there is a representation of other racial and ethnic minority groups. However, in North America people think in terms of black and white (and Hispanic). If the largest (Hispanic) and second largest (Black) minority groups in America aren't substantially represented on certain campuses, of course the place will be viewed as not racially and ethnically diverse.

[jon1856]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

What does the ethnic make up of the county/town have anything to do with the University. Athens does not equal UGA.

for example:
my hometown is probably 15% black, however one of the colleges in my hometown is over 30%. In fact, it has one of the largest step shows in the South.

From Newsweek/Kaplan's How to get into College 2007 Edition:
University of Georgia
FT Undergrads 22,730
Men: 43%
Women: 57%
African-American 5%
Asian-American 5%
Latino 2%
Native-American <1%
Caucasian 86%
In Fraternities 18%
In Sororities 23%


And per: http://www.ope.ed.gov/security/InstI...asp?CRITERIA=H
in the years 2002, 2003, 2004 no hate crimes reported.

GC seems to have two threads on this-went back to re-read most of the other thread.
Without searching for or seeing other updated information, my limited POV is:
It would seem as if a group of young male students, who happened to be pledges of a Fraternity, committed this action.
Again without knowing all information, the only part the the chapter may have had in this was not knowing what their pledges were up to and/or teaching them about being Gentlemen.

As for the rest of this thread, I will just lurk about and read it.

[Elephant Walk]

Much less diverse than I had imagined. It's much like Arkansas though.