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The beginning of a new school year brings friends back together. The campus and city provided students with a wide array of opportunities and events to experience when they had a break from classes and homework. [Photo by Russell Cothren-University Relations]
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National fraternity loses its local raternityRemoved charter due to a racial incident. -j. Was it a racial thing or not? A black statue with the tag “Sambo” sat on the front porch of a fraternity house. Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity has had its charter suspended from the Univer¬ sity for two years as of September 6, due to the incident involving a painted statue of a black figure with a nametag reading “Sambo.” “Sigma Phi Epsilon was one of the first fraterni¬ ties to eliminate racial and religious member¬ ship standards and val¬ ues,” Kenneth Maddox, executive director of the national fraternity said. “The undergraduate chapter’s Alumni Board and the national frater¬ nity moved swiftly to sus¬ pend the chapter’s char¬ ter and our Fayetteville area alumni strongly support these actions.” “An alumni advisory council has begun inter¬ viewing each former member of the sus¬ pended chapter to deter¬ mine which individuals may be asked to return to T his photograph shows the bench where the statue of Sambo was when law professor Carlton Bailey took its picture. Bailey said while he was taking the picture, people within the house shouted the word ‘nigger’ at him. The statue was removed from the bench after the incident occurred. [Photo by Walt Beazley] Keith Lindley chair was thrown from a window, and it bounced in front of him. Bailey reported the incident to University Police depart¬ ment that evening and later reported it to the University administration. “I did not ask them to do anything about the statue,” Bailey said. “I took the picture to confirm the statue exists. Usu¬ ally when something like this happens, the Univer¬ sity says ‘it wasn’t there, or it never happened, or you didn’t see what you thought you saw.’” Bailey was told that Sigma Phi Epsilon consid¬ ered the statue to be a “positive, uplifting thing for black people.” One of Sigma Phi Epsilon’s mem¬ bers is part black, and they said they would not place a statue on their porch which they deemed racially offensive. Bailey was told that the fraternity members did not know who was shout¬ ing the word “nigger.” He was also informed that, the statue was destroyed. “If that’s the case, a reconstituted chapter,” Maddox said. On August 18, Carlton Bailey, a black law professor at the University, was tak¬ ing photographs of the statue on the front porch of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fra¬ ternity house. Bailey says that while he was on the lawn taking pictures, people from within the house were shouting the word “nigger” at him. As he turned to leave, a Bailey said, “and the statue is positive for black people, and they have a mem¬ ber who is part black, why not keep the statue on the front porch,” Bailey said. Members involved directly in the inci¬ dent were asked to give up their mem¬ bership in the fraternity. The remaining; members o f Sigma Phi Epsilon decided to disband at the end of the first semes-1 ter due to the suspension. 8 Sigma Pin Epsilon
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