Brothers,     My youngest son Joe, a Beta pledge at Auburn, called me last night to inform me their chapter's charter has been revoked, effectively ending 34 years of Beta's at Auburn.
At a recent costume party, several pledges (Joe NOT being one of them) decided it would be funny to mock the all black fraternity on campus by painting their faces black and wearing that frat's letters.
As unbelivable as it seems, that one act set off a chain reaction in Oxford and the General Secy flew down and, in a two sentence statement, ended life for the Betas as they once knew it.
The incident coincided with the Delta Sig chapter doing something even more stupid at a separate party on a separate day where pictures showed up on the internet by their party photographer of three D Sigs dressed as a black, a KKK clansman and a Confederate soldier, all looking as if they were trying to hang or shoot the black.
Brilliant huh???
That incident really got the student body in an uproar and then the Beta deal came to light about the same time and bam, goodbye Betas.
I only tell the story here because there have been many news coverages of both events across the country, making the Betas look like they were way out of line when, in fact, it was pretty harmless and the black fraternity really was only tremendously upset with the D Sigs.
Joe, his pledge brothers, and the actives are in shock at the severity of the decision by Oxford and I must admit, so am I.
If any of you out there have any ideas on what to do about it, I certainly would welcome them.
Joe was really falling in love with that chapter and it had a ton of campus leaders in it, much like Gamma Omega did once upon a time.
My feeling is that the chapter deserved some serious and accountable disciplinary punishments and the chapter agreed what they did was stupid and in horrible taste, but to abolish a 34 year old, 120 man chapter for the actions of a few?????
I'm really pissed.
Yours in -kai-,

[smu-betas] Sad day for Auburn Betas

Brothers, My youngest son Joe, a Beta pledge at Auburn, called me last night to inform me their chapter's charter has been revoked, effectively ending <NUMBER> years of Beta's at Auburn.
At a recent costume party, several pledges (Joe NOT being one of them) decided it would be funny to mock the all black fraternity on campus by painting their faces black and wearing that frat's letters.
As unbelivable as it seems, that one act set off a chain reaction in Oxford and the General Secy flew down and, in a two sentence statement, ended life for the Betas as they once knew it.
The incident coincided with the Delta Sig chapter doing something even more stupid at a separate party on a separate day where pictures showed up on the internet by their party photographer of three D Sigs dressed as a black, a KKK clansman and a Confederate soldier, all looking as if they were trying to hang or shoot the black.
Brilliant huh???
That incident really got the student body in an uproar and then the Beta deal came to light about the same time and bam, goodbye Betas.
I only tell the story here because there have been many news coverages of both events across the country, making the Betas look like they were way out of line when, in fact, it was pretty harmless and the black fraternity really was only tremendously upset with the D Sigs.
Joe, his pledge brothers, and the actives are in shock at the severity of the decision by Oxford and I must admit, so am I.
If any of you out there have any ideas on what to do about it, I certainly would welcome them.
Joe was really falling in love with that chapter and it had a ton of campus leaders in it, much like Gamma Omega did once upon a time.
My feeling is that the chapter deserved some serious and accountable disciplinary punishments and the chapter agreed what they did was stupid and in horrible taste, but to abolish a <NUMBER> year old, <NUMBER> man chapter for the actions of a few?????
I'm really pissed.
Yours in -kai-,
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