Hazing And Black Colleges: Is The Practice Of Hazing More Prevalent At HBCUs?

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Originally Posted by 33girl

This is EXACTLY it, especially the bolded. HBCU administrators are, I would wager, far more likely to have come into contact with the good things that the NPHC groups do and realize that it is the PEOPLE, not the organization, that are screwing up. A lot of PWIs* have administrators who may have come from a place where they had NO contact with Greek orgs. So they just assume the whole org is bad and can't be fixed, ever.

*I almost typed PWI college. PIN number for your MAC card, anyone?

I'd add that HBCU administrators are also considerably more likely to have been members of NPHC groups or to have dealt with them in college due to the *relative* dominance of the culture on HBCU campuses by the NPHC fraternities. (In short, which is more likely, that a PWI administrator knows that Sigma Alpha Epsilon has Purple and Gold as its colors or an HBCU administrator knows that Omega Psi Phi has those colors)(Yes, I know the shades are slightly different)