Louisville Suspends TKE Chapter For Some Of The Weakest Hazing Allegations Yet
To start this off, I’d like to make the definition of hazing very clear. According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of hazing is as follows: “the practice of playing unpleasant tricks on someone or forcing someone to do unpleasant things.” Now that I have shared that, these allegations will seem even more ridiculous.
The University of Louisville suspended its Tau Kappa Epsilon chapter yesterday after photos surfaced of their pledges cheering at a game or pep rally while shirtless and wearing the fraternity’s letters painted across their torsos. Hold your shock. That’s not all this heinous chapter is accused of requiring of their pledges.
From Wave3 News:
“They also were required to serve as ‘designated drivers’ if the brothers were drinking, and to carry red binders—essentially a pledge manual,” Mardis said.
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.
The loser that said those words quoted above is Michael Mardis, the Dean of Students at Louisville, otherwise known as the idiot responsible for suspending the chapter over some of the weakest hazing allegations I’ve ever come across. 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. This is new level bullshit.
Our buddy Mardis had the following to say about the fraternity.
“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.”
He wrapped it up with this gem:
But Dean of Students Michael Mardis concedes many people might not consider the allegations “hazing.”
Those people are called “men,” Michael. Fuck your allegations.
If this is the road we’re heading down, it’s about to be a scary time for Greeks..
[via Wave3 News]
Wow. Just wow.
11 years ago at 10:18 amMy chapter just got booted until Fall 2016 because we didn’t schedule a pledge meeting and they thought we were hazing them. Greek life is going in the shitter.
11 years ago at 10:25 amFucking geed.
11 years ago at 10:26 amWhat a pussy
11 years ago at 10:30 amNormally I’d make fun of TKE, but they literally just got fucked over.
11 years ago at 10:36 amTeke still sucks though.
11 years ago at 1:47 amPhi Tau hazing pledges the worst out of any fraternity here at Louisville but then giving an interview like that.
11 years ago at 10:36 amClarification: the Dean quoted above is a Phi Tau
11 years ago at 11:16 amSuddenly, this all seems a little less surprising.
11 years ago at 12:18 pmThose monsters could give John Hamm a few pointers
11 years ago at 10:37 amYou’d prefer the alternative, Michael? Having the pledges drink until they end up in the hospital from alcohol poisoning? Or perhaps having a couple students die in a drunk driving accident? What fraternity didn’t give you a bid, Mike?
11 years ago at 10:40 amYou know what’s sad, he is greek.
11 years ago at 11:51 amWell then what the fuck
11 years ago at 12:19 pmSo the fact I had a mandatory attendance in class this morning is hazing and Virginia Tech should have to be shut down?
11 years ago at 10:41 amSince they can’t ban them, I think liberals are slowly trying to deteriorate the pledging/ bidding process so that they can get in and join fraternities. Once inside, they will make fraternities glorified clubs and in effect destroy our beloved institution. Seriously, if you didn’t want to be a driver, clean houses, be “mocked” by painting yourself with letters, you don’t actually want to join a fraternity. No one is forcing you to join.
11 years ago at 10:42 am