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

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Well, here's some resolution in this case...And it does appear that the New Member Educator was involved...

Frat pledges get probation in porn case
UGA students displayed photos
By BY ANDREA JONES
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 09/19/06

The seven University of Georgia fraternity pledges who showed pornographic pictures to passers-by at the school's student center have agreed to serve a year's probation, complete community service and organize a program on sexual harassment for their frat brothers, according to an agreement reached late last week.

The fraternity involved, Chi Phi, was placed on probation for two years.

University officials initially suspended Chi Phi for the Sept. 6 prank, where seven students and a visitor photographed people's reactions as they showed them photos from Black Tail, a porn magazine that features black women. The case was forwarded to UGA's Office of Judicial Programs, which reached the agreement with the fraternity and students on Thursday.

Chi Phi President Matthew Hughes has said that the chapter is "embarrassed" about the incident, which he said was not sanctioned by the fraternity.

According to the agreement: "Chi Phi fraternity engaged in shared responsibility for violations when an appointed leader (Pledge or New Member Educator) condoned behavior exhibited by seven other students which, by definition, violated the university's policies pertaining to sexual harassment and caused a disturbance or disruption on campus."

The students, who all admitted guilt, will complete 25 hours of community service by December and work with each other to teach Chi Phi about the school's Anti-Discrimination and Harassment Policy and the definitions of sexual harassment. The older fraternity member received the same sanctions.

The fraternity will replace its pledge program with a "new brotherhood program" by February, the agreement states.

It's not the first time Chi Phi has faced sanctions.

The fraternity was placed on a four-year probation beginning in 1995. In 1999, the university continued the probation after finding the fraternity at fault for a keg party where a member provided alcohol to an underage pledge. The fraternity also got in hot water for allegedly hazing Chi Phi pledges who were visiting from Georgia Tech in 1998 but was cleared of that charge in 2000 after witnesses failed to come forward.