31 year old AKA Statue deemed "inappropriate"

[AKA_Monet]

Originally posted by LightBulb
They replaced it with a birdbath! *scrunches up nose*

PS - FSUZeta you're funny!

Believe me, both the graduate and undergraduate chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. in Daytona Beach will have a new structure in its place...

Several of my relatives still sit on Bethune Cookman College's board of trustees... All of my aunts are members of my Sorority, as is my grandmother... When I say something will be done, I am not even close to joking...

Especially since my grandfather is buried on the campus with an extremely nice headstone...

[Tom Earp]

Sory, I have been trying to post for the longest, but PC Friggen Problems!

Now, is the Statue in question seeming pornograpic or against Christian Ideals?

If this is the case of pornographic proportions, they, I guess Then these Acedamian Twits should consider The Total Country of Greece Pornographic

Is LUDRICOUS to strong a word?

Oooh, I see a Boob that has been on Campus for low these many 31 years. Damn, I will Idolize that concrete boob of a semi-"nekkid" statue!

What the heck is going on with the Humans on this planet!

[The B Girl]

Why not put something in place of the statue that honors all sororities and fraternities at BCC?

[mccoyred]

I find the notion of removing a statue of a Greek goddess from a Christian campus because it is considered a pagan symbol utterly ridiculous. I also find the opposition to baring of a breast on a statue due to Christian ideals ridiculous.

However, I also fail to find the relevance of the statue as described to AKA or Bethune-Cookman College. If the Greek statue was Minerva in relationship to Delta, I could see the relevance (Minerva is symbolic to Delta, Mary McCleod Bethune was a Delta). To my knowledge, AKA does not have a symbol as described above.

I will defer to AKA_Monet that the statue did/does have symbolic value to the AKA chapter on the campus. I think that it is interesting that the statue was removed without much comment. I am interested to see what will take its place.

[sweete81]

Are there any pics of this statue? Was the statue large or small? Is it similar to the Venus De Milo? How does the students or other faculty at BCC fell about this, or alumni AKA's inducted at that chapter feel? Hmm, I wonder.... Was it really that crude that it needed to be torn down?

[AKA2D '91]

I'm sure the goddess wore more clothing than some of the young ladies on the campus.

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

Originally posted by AKA2D '91
I'm sure the goddess wore more clothing than some of the young ladies on the campus.

too true.

[AKA_Monet]

Originally posted by mccoyred
I find the notion of removing a statue of a Greek goddess from a Christian campus because it is considered a pagan symbol utterly ridiculous. I also find the opposition to baring of a breast on a statue due to Christian ideals ridiculous.

However, I also fail to find the relevance of the statue as described to AKA or Bethune-Cookman College. If the Greek statue was Minerva in relationship to Delta, I could see the relevance (Minerva is symbolic to Delta, Mary McCleod Bethune was a Delta). To my knowledge, AKA does not have a symbol as described above.

I will defer to AKA_Monet that the statue did/does have symbolic value to the AKA chapter on the campus. I think that it is interesting that the statue was removed without much comment. I am interested to see what will take its place.

I called my Soror Grandmother who lives across the street from BCC. She said many of the young African American students are so waaaaaaayyyyyy other there in their behavior and clothing that it is too negative of an environment. (Think thugs, pimps and ho's--of course my G-ma is 90 years old, too). That the President of BCC thought that another symbol displaying "positive African American organizations" on a HBCU campus needed revamping. That the homes most of these kids come from cannot differentiate between arts and culture and the violent homes that they have endured. So she is asking all the "positive African American" organizations to step it up a notch and remove archaic images... That is what I gathered from my G-ma... And that's her point of view...