MSU hazing

Editor's Note: I chose this because it shows that hazing is never a good idea and it only
causes disunity.

MSU fraternity to rebuild ranks after suspensions

BY ROBIN ERB • FREE PRESS HIGHER EDUCATION WRITER • January 3, 2008


A Michigan State University fraternity will hold a recruiting meeting Jan.
21 to attract new pledges and begin reestablishing itself after all but
four of its members were suspended for hazing allegations.
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Kappa Alpha Psi lost 11 members at the beginning of the fall term after
the fraternity's regional office placed them on 5- to 8-year suspensions
because of allegations involving hazing, the MSU chapter's leader
confirmed Wednesday.

Darren Wilson, polemarch of the MSU chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi, would not
disclose details but said there were no serious injuries.

Wilson -- one of three fraternity members still at the school; the fourth
has since left MSU -- said he did not take part in the activity that led
to the suspensions because he doesn't believe in hazing.

"I'm not the kind of person who is willing to allow someone to attack me.
If someone had hit me ... there'd be a fight out of it," he said.

MSU officials contacted Wednesday by the Free Press said they were unaware
of the allegations but consider them a matter between the local chapter
and the hierarchy of Kappa Alpha Psi, one of the nation's oldest,
historically black fraternities, founded in 1911.

Harry Franklin, polemarch of the northern province of Kappa Alpha Phi,
said the MSU chapter is about 50 years old and was reestablished in 2006
following an earlier suspension in 1999. He would not give an explanation
for that suspension nor discuss the recent member suspensions, calling it
"an internal matter."

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