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Originally Posted by naraht
At an HBCU, OTOH, I can't see an administration doing that. At most an NPHC group will be removed from campus for 5 years in the event of non-fatal hazing and 10 for fatal hazing. This is especially true with the disconnect change over to the non-pledging intake process. Since all pledging is not done under the official auspices of the chapter, the hazing isn't either. So why pull the charter? There seems to be an unwillingness to be in a situation where a student would come to an HBCU and *not* have the opportunity to join an NPHC chapter which has ever existed there...
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I see what you mean. Considering the relatively lower number of HBCUs, and active NPHC chapters at HBCUs, there is a higher risk of revoking charters at HBCUs than at PWIs. In a non-fatal hazing incident, HBCU administrations that have good relationships with the NPHC regional/district, local, and/or national bodies often work with the organizations to find the best course of action. This is a negotiation process where the HBCU often tries to see what the NPHC org has in mind but the ultimate decision is on the HBCU. Many NPHCers at the graduate and collegiate levels think it is stupid to revoke charters for certain hazing incidents, especially when you can simply put a chapter on suspension until all the idiot current members graduate. Punishing members and putting chapters on suspension for a few years (or having the chapter's membership intake taken over by the graduate chapter) usually works. HBCUs often know that whereas the PWIs that I attended appeared not give a damn.
Which brings me to my next point: This is not what you were saying but some may take your post to imply that HBCUs are therefore more tolerant of hazing as part of HBCU culture. That is problematic because it operates under the assumption that how PWIs (and NPC and NIC) do it is the standard and anything different than that standard is deficient. Different is not deficient. I believe that forms of hazing are accepted at many, if not most, colleges and universities as part of the campus cultures. There were forms of hazing for non-Greeks and Greeks at the PWIs that I attended that were not challenged until after someone got hurt or killed. The PWIs that I attended were more lenient on the NPCs and NICs because how they operated was "familiar" and "normal" whereas NPHC GLOs could get in trouble for darn near everything. It is wonderful that we had regional and national bodies to assist us because, being the minority, all eyes were often on us for the smallest things. Cultural practices that even our national bodies approved of were questioned by the PWIs to the point where we started getting approval to hold events off campus.
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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Only a handful? The US Depargment of Education lists around 100. There are 8 just within a two-hour drive of where I live
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That is arguably a "handful" in comparison to the total number of colleges and universities in the United States of America. The small percentage, which some would dramatically call a "handful," of HBCUs is part of the history and present day significance of HBCUs
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