“Halloween in the Hood”
Johns Hopkins University has suspended the Sigma Chi fraternity because of a “Halloween in the Hood” party that drew protests by black students.
The invitation to the party, posted on the Web site Facebook, encouraged guests to wear “regional clothing from our locale” with jewelry including “bling bling ice ice, grills” and “hoochie hoops.”
The party, held Saturday night at the fraternity house, featured a skeleton pirate hanging on a noose.
Black Student Union members protested the party on Monday, saying the appearance of the image and the language on the invitation highlighted racial tensions at Hopkins and the strained relations between the university and the surrounding community.
Johns Hopkins is supposed to be represented by some of the brightest minds in the world, but they could have fooled me. It’s 2006 for pete’s sake! I do hope that the NAACP pursues legal action against the kids involved, but I think that the best they can hope for is the fraternity is banned from the school. These kids will have some powerful attorneys that will argue the 1st amendment and the kids will be in the clear. You really can’t say much about the bling etc., as that is advertised everyday to these kids….Yasmene Mumby was correct: “We need to educate the student body because apparently some people weren’t given much of a proper lesson in the history of our country”
November 1, 2006 - 08:45 AM on November 1st, 2006
Pathetic bunch of sneling persons why must a whole university bend over backwards for them anyway its rediclous:mad:
November 1, 2006 - 02:59 PM on November 1st, 2006
What’s “sneling?” It sounds hot.
November 1, 2006 - 03:07 PM on November 1st, 2006
lib, it was sniveling, but you really knew that, jerk.
November 1, 2006 - 03:21 PM on November 1st, 2006
You left half the letters out. A little extreme even according to your semi-literate standards, n’est-ce pas?
Ass-wipe.
November 1, 2006 - 03:32 PM on November 1st, 2006
A good rule of thumb is that folks that comment on spelling and typing errors generally have little more worth while to comment about.
November 1, 2006 - 04:01 PM on November 1st, 2006
Who’s fault is that?
And don’t pretend that you had any idea what “sneling” was. Pecker-breath.
November 1, 2006 - 04:24 PM on November 1st, 2006
And thank you for making my point.
November 1, 2006 - 07:02 PM on November 1st, 2006
Mr. “Lib”: Kindly refrain from using any name whatsoever that has anything to do with Liberals unless you are somwhow capable of elevating the quality of your prognostications.
We of the Left, secure in the knowledge that we are vastly intellectually superior to anyone on the right, do not appreciate someone who operates at such a low level identifying themself as a member of our side.
Yes it is true, us Liberals are close cousins to socialists and communists, we hate traditional America and want to destroy everything and everyone that does not conform to our Liberal ideology. However, you are not worthy of association with our uber intellectual community.
Although politically you are on our side, you seem incapable of using any more than two of your three brain cells. Therefore, we cannot use you. We are excommunicating you from the Left. Begone simpleton!
November 2, 2006 - 12:05 AM on November 2nd, 2006
Political correctness strikes again. I wonder what would’ve happened if one of the black fraternities held a “cracker” party wherein attendees were expected to come wearing Izod shirts, Argyle socks, Docker khakis etc etc. My money is not a damn thing.
November 2, 2006 - 12:35 AM on November 2nd, 2006
FAO- I don’t think the bling etc is what caused the uproa..it was the noose…just not cool…had they just had the party as advertised, I am sure no one would be causing a stink, but when they added that noose, they crossed a line..jmo
November 2, 2006 - 01:06 AM on November 2nd, 2006
“sneling’ is the sound of a Liberal getting his ass kicked.
November 2, 2006 - 11:55 PM on November 2nd, 2006
How else would you hang a skeleton outside a Halloween party? A repelling harness?
November 3, 2006 - 07:53 AM on November 3rd, 2006
How about some basic fishing line, or string….