It’s funny how the right jumps whenever you hear stories about inner-city youth going wild, but when it happens with some rich kids, there is a constant silence. Here is a perfect example:
Another Miami University sorority is under fire for bad behavior at a spring formal event.
The Alpha Xi Delta sorority faces a two-year suspension after an incident at its spring formal, which was held at the Freedom Center on March 26.
A spokesman for the Freedom Center said as many as 270 guests at the party arrived inebriated and combative, treating the building with “abject, profound disrespect.”
During the party, floor tiles were damaged, restrooms were trashed and one young man was stopped before urinating under the stanchions of the slave pen, the spokesman said.
And before anyone starts yelling that I’m jumping to assumptions about these being rich kids, let me explain. I live 5 miles from Miami University and know it very well. It is full of rich kids. It’s also a pretty solid right wing college because of it’s almost ivy league status and higher tuition rates.
And let’s not get into the “isolated incident” defense either. Here’s why:
Miami University of Ohio has suspended a sorority for a year after a lodge owner complained about damage and unruly behavior at a spring formal including guests urinating in sinks, men scrambling over the bar for drinks, and couples caught having sex.
The action against the Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women chapter followed a letter of complaint from the lodge owner to the southwest Ohio school about the April 9 event at Lake Lyndsay Lodge, about 30 miles north of Cincinnati.
Pi Beta Phi’s national leadership said in a statement that it has placed the Miami chapter on probation “in order to change the culture of the chapter and to ensure it models Pi Beta Phi and Miami University values.”
The suspension means the sorority loses its campus dorm suite, can’t recruit new members and can’t participate as a group in campus activities, Miami spokeswoman Claire Wagner said.
In two days we have two different reports of sororities at Miami in trouble. Again – these are a bunch of rich kids, who mommy and daddy will be right there for.
I could only wonder what would be said if this was a predominately black university? Actually I think I already know, and it wouldn’t be a lot of silence.