Kansas City Star
March 4, 2006
A fraternity has been kicked off the Central Missouri State University campus
after administrators learned that students held a “racially insensitive”
party around Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The January event, called a “chicken and beer” party, was held at Alpha Kappa Lambda’s housing complex, which is on university property and considered university housing.
A three-week university investigation found that the party mocked the national King holiday, established to honor the slain African-American civil rights leader.
According to an editorial in the Muleskinner, the student newspaper, those who attended the party were told to show up dressed as a black person. Participants came wearing doo-rags and baggy pants and carrying chains, then drank beer from 40-ounce bottles and ate fried chicken.
The fraternity’s national headquarters suspended it on Thursday and is taking steps to cancel the chapter’s charter, said Jeremy Slivinski, executive director of the national fraternity.
“We do find that the incident was racially insensitive,” Slivinski said
