"Photos from the party—held by Kappa Sigma on Friday—posted to Facebook showed students in traditional Asian attire. An email invite included stereotypical misspellings (“Herro,” “Chank You”) and an image from the film “Team America: World Police.”’
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/duke-racist-rager-141248540.html
STL, I don’t know what you are talking about. Clearly, these people are making the most of their $200,000 education.
People that get outraged by this sort of stuff should be jabbed with sporks.
And PCUis a great movie.
Damn PCU is a great movie, even though it had all those weird chases in it.
The next time someone that isn’t a redneck dresses as a redneck I’m going to protest!
alma mater of the great tucker max - where would society be without him??!?
Wow, I haven’t thought about Tucker Max in a long time. Awesome way to kill a couple hours online. One of the very few times I think I actually cried from laughing so hard.
Too bad the movie sucked so much.
Honestly, reading about this party and seeing the pictures made me pretty angry. Mostly angry that I wasn’t there, but angry nonetheless.
Angry that anyone older than 22 would care about a Fraternity party where no one died from alcohol poisoning or was hazed? My house had some asian kids. One of them went by Chinky (from high school or something, easily could have dropped it before coming to university). I’m sure he would have had a ball at an asian-themed party and I wouldn’t be surprised if this house had some cool asian bros as well.
I was thinking of it from a fraternity administration perspective. I was vice president of a fraternity in college, and from my experience, universities are in a constant struggle with fraternities with respect to the level of “undesireable” elements that they produce. It’s not infrequent that fraternities get banned from university campuses, as was the case for this Kappa Sigma chapter. Being newly reaccepted, their relationship with the university was probably tenuous. Now, they are back in Duke’s bad list. It just reflects poor decision making on the students’ part.
Getting kicked out of the school is a shameful thing for college Greek organizations. It is looked down upon and derided by many generations of alumni…
That house had been kicked off campus for like ten years. More often than not, houses get kicked off campus for hazing, drugs, or alcohol-related deaths. Five students complaining about the theme is nowhere near comparable to what they probably did to get kicked out. On the other hand, IFC at my school was controlled by d-bags, so you never know how it could turn out.
Also, you’re thinking like an alum instead of as a student. So long as no one got hurt, this is all good press for rush (“we threw such an awesome party they were talkin’ about it on the interwebs”). We threw a big Arab-themed party every other year (Arabian Nights, not terrorists, everybody dressed up, people apparently rented camels before my time). If anyone on campus would have complained, we would have told them to go do things I shouldn’t mention on AF. If any Arab who was rushing/pledging was offended, then he would have been too uptight for our house anyway.