Johns Hopkins University last month barred the school?s chapter of the fraternity from holding parties and other social functions for a year for hosting a “Halloween in the Hood” party considered racist by many. The school also suspended the party invitation author, Justin Park, for a year. He requested attendees to dress like people from Baltimore ? AKA, the “HIV pit” with “bling bling ice ice, grills” and “hoochie hoops.” But Park and the other JHU Sigma Chi members are not alone in infamy.
At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill members of Sigma Chi recently snatched more than 10,000 copies of student newspaper, The Daily Tarheel, the day a front-page story ran about the fraternity breaking hazing rules and its punishment, a three-year suspension.
At least on the surface, these chapter members appear to have lost the ability to discern between playing a joke and exploiting others.
Do these members of Sigma Chi wear the group?s white cross, “a sign and a symbol known to all the world, uplifting Him of whom our badge reminds us,” according to a fraternity statement, “My Badge”? Are they men “possessed of good morals ? having a high sense of honor and a deep sense of personal responsibility,” that the group requires? Hmm.
