Call the fashion police!
The University of Louisville has come up with a novel rationale for suspending its Tau Kappa Epsilon chapter, WAVE 3 News reports:
Photos on the chapter’s website and Facebook page show TKE pledges and/or actives shirtless, their torsos dyed Cardinal Red, bearing the fraternity’s Greek letters. They appear to be cheering at a pep rally or a ball game.
“They also were required to serve as ‘designated drivers’ if the brothers were drinking, and to carry red binders—essentially a pledge manual,” [Dean of Students Michael] Mardis said.
But the Code of Conduct may forbid such rites of passage. It defines hazing as actions that could “recklessly or intentionally endanger physical or mental health,” or anything that involves “dangerous, demeaning, or ridiculing activities.”
“There was this environment, this expectation that you’re required to do these things,” Mardis said. “And if you don’t do those things you might not be able to become a member.”
wave3.com-Louisville News, Weather
Total Frat Move has a hilariously profane take on this:
I should’ve slapped a NSFW tag on this article. The allegations are truly fucking horrifying. Requiring pledges to keep drunk drivers off of the road?! Carrying a pledge manual?! Shut these motherfuckers down. …
They couldn’t even find evidence that they made a pledge drink a beer? Hell, maybe they were forced to wear certain clothes to class. Those dipshits at the university don’t even have that to level against the fraternity. …
If this is the road we’re heading down, it’s about to be a scary time for Greeks.
And that’s probably the point. At least “Mardis concedes many people might not consider the allegations ‘hazing.’”
Read the story and TFM’s response.
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