Kappa Alpha at Mizzou...

[adduncan]

Mr. A heard a story in his college days about the KA chapter at U of Tennessee firing a cue ball out of their cannon which blew down the Kappa Sig's front door across the street.

DG's have their anchor at their house, KA's have a cannon. IMHO (ditto Mr. A's) if a chapter wants to continue decorating their house w/ a cannon, it should be filled w/ concrete (and if it's a modern cannon, lose the firing pin.) Which was what KA national ordered UT's chapter to do w/ their cannon, BTW.

It's only funny because no one got hurt. Anyone else notice how fast nationals came down on them? About 24 hours or so?

Adrienne
edited to correct the school's name

[ADPiShannan]

TKEs here have a HUGE bell in their front lawn. The girls we all are, always think it would be funny to go steal. OMG that think weighs a ton there is no way we can move it. We always end up ringing that thing like mad though lol. DGs here have a anchor too but I think thats about all for things here in peoples yards. Id die if someone here had a cannon. We used to have a HUGE May Day and things got on fire bad. I mean people would come from all colleges to it. They quit back in 99 cause of all the destruction we caused every year. We were on national news each year that time. Now they bring out the riot gear and police all over so no more parties like that here......

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally posted by AlphaXiGirl
Fox News just had a short clip about it too.

Doesn't seem quite that news worthy but, if greeks weren't doing this type of stupid stuff, it wouldn't get any press. Shame on us. I have to admit that if I worked in the media, I'd be more interested in a story about an exploding cannon than someone raising $3,000 with a dance marathon.

Thought: Maybe we should try to make sure that we only do stupid stuff at our philanthropies so that somewhere in the article they can at least have one sentence about the good we do.

Oops: Guess we tried that already (at the same school)- didn't work out so well.

Oh well.

To this end, I once offered to shave my head if my chapter raised a certain amount for our philanthropy. I think it woudl have been great press, but my girls told me not to even think about it.

[Tom Earp]

Okay, stupid is as stupid does, well only in the eye of the beholder!

What if at each game as PSU does is Fire a Cannon Shot by The ROTC that the damn thing blew up, would they be Court Marshalled and be on JAG!??

There was a Fraternity at PSU who fired off a Canon everytime the Team scored. Everyone loved it! But if it blew up Holly Shit Bat Man, We are under attack!

Say if The PIKE Fire Truck went out of controll and ran over spectators of the Homecoming Parade would they be sued for Careless, Reckless or Vehicular Homocide if someone was killed????

How much is anything a Greek Organization does that is not turned against us as Greeks!

[exlurker]

Originally posted by adduncan
. . . . It's only funny because no one got hurt. Anyone else notice how fast nationals came down on them? About 24 hours or so?

Adrienne

You're right -- truly rapid response. Of course, some of the cannon debris landed in a room in an apartment house across the stret where there were visiting Chinese scholars. We'll probably never know, but perhaps the U.S. State Department and the Chinese Embassy wanted some quick action .

The local paper in Columbia MO reports that the third KA Order member was arrested (the police were looking for him and he turned himself in). All three are out on bail. The paper also says that the university will attempt to determine if it was a fraternity-sponsored event.

http://www.columbiatribune.com/2004/...501News005.asp

[FAB*SpiceySpice]

Originally posted by Stacekat
Oh my! I used to go to MIZZOU (go tigers) although I didn't joing a GLO until after I transferred. A lot of my friends were KA's and hearing this story really just doesn't surprise me. I love MIZZOU stories. You just don't get those stories anywhere else

Haha yeah I gotta say, Mizzou is definitely one crazy crazy place.

I think it's sad that the chapter is going to be suspended, they're certainly one of the top 3 fraternities here (out of 27 or so) so that really sucks. But obviously they needed to be punished.
This is honestly the dumbest thing I have ever heard of. Really, what even made any of them think that this would be funny to do?!?! It was a Thursday night too, they should have all been at Harpo's partaking in the cheap beer instead of finding stuff to do around their house. I know I was.

[exlurker]

Originally posted by FAB*SpiceySpice
. . . .
This is honestly the dumbest thing I have ever heard of. Really, what even made any of them think that this would be funny to do?!?! . . . .

So true. The expression on the face of the chapter president in the head shot (maybe "mug shot"?) on the Columbia paper's web page suggests that he may have been having second thoughts . . . .

Probably it just seemed like a good idea at the time.

I guess you never know. Something that seems like fun can just blow up in your face.

[DeltAlum]

Originally posted by exlurker
Something that seems like fun can just blow up in your face.

Most interesting choice of words.

[Tom Earp]

While funny it turned out catastrophic for KA!

I do not think there was any malicious intent here, it justs go to show that any violation of any kind gets a Greek Organizations butt in a sling!

Oh, yea it was on Local and world media!

What about all of the good that they have done for charity events! Well, guess that is forgoten of course!

[AXJules]

Originally posted by FAB*SpiceySpice
Haha yeah I gotta say, Mizzou is definitely one crazy crazy place.

I think it's sad that the chapter is going to be suspended, they're certainly one of the top 3 fraternities here (out of 27 or so) so that really sucks. But obviously they needed to be punished.
This is honestly the dumbest thing I have ever heard of. Really, what even made any of them think that this would be funny to do?!?! It was a Thursday night too, they should have all been at Harpo's partaking in the cheap beer instead of finding stuff to do around their house. I know I was.

LMAO my thoughts exactly.

[shadokat]

It is funny because nobody got hurt. And this is one of those "what the hell??!?!?" stories. If it was on CNN or the like, that's why it was there. You can also bet the anchors and viewers alike took a giggle at it.

My question...who leaves 18-22 year old men with access to alcohol with a working cannon? COME ON!

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by shadokat
It is funny because nobody got hurt. And this is one of those "what the hell??!?!?" stories. If it was on CNN or the like, that's why it was there. You can also bet the anchors and viewers alike took a giggle at it.

My question...who leaves 18-22 year old men with access to alcohol with a working cannon? COME ON!

Agree.

[dstbrat]

the thing landed in someone's apartment! it was dumb luck that no one got hurt. this is why we can't get past the idea that Grreks have no purpose is because we keep doing stupid things and trying to justify it, instead admitting it was stupid and accepting responsibility.

[AXJules]

I don't think anyone's trying to justify anything.

They thought it would be hilarious to fire a cannon.

Turns out it was a stupid idea, it exploded, and could have killed someone. They almost took out about 5 Chinese nationals who are leaders in their country.

No one's made any public excuses or anything like that...the only reason we're laughing is b/c thank god no one was hurt, it becomes one of those "WTF" moments.

[exlurker]

The city paper (Columbia MO) reports that one of the three Kappa Alphas who were arrested told investigators that shooting the cannon was an annual tradition. Uh oh. If true, that might not play too well.



http://www.columbiatribune.com/2004/...506News004.asp