LSU DKE’s Game Day Banner Referencing Michael Sam Causes Controversy
Sam Houston State came to Baton Rouge in a bus, but left in a hearse. While the Tigers were tearing apart the Bearkats’ depth chart, a minor controversy was developing several blocks from the stadium on fraternity row.
Last season, the LSU DKE house received national attention after its Kent State game day banner mocked the 1970 tragedy. This week, the fraternity’s game day banner took advantage of the heightened media attention surrounding former Missouri football player Michael Sam, and it expectedly caught the eyes of a few unhappy fans.
According to NOLA.com, the university asked the fraternity to remove the banner and the chapter complied.
The university asked the fraternity on Saturday to “remove the offensive banner,” LSU Media Relations Director Ernie Ballard said in an email to NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune.
The banner is down, but it’s unclear when that happened. Ballard said it’s his understanding that the fraternity did not respond to a message from the Greek Life office asking the fraternity to remove it.
Neither the chapter or the LSU Greek life office have released a statement on the issue yet.
[via NOLA.com]
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Chalk that up to classic Southern hospitality.
10 years ago at 3:06 pmAs an openly gay man I thought this was hilarious. The LGBT community is full of little bitches and needs to stop getting their panties in a bunch over nothing
10 years ago at 3:57 pmThe DKEs here don’t give a fuck about anything. During rush they smoke cigs and ash on their carpet in front of the rushees. Yet they’re all rich as fuck and the university can’t touch them
10 years ago at 4:08 pmDeke are untouchable at a lot of the Sec schools. Bama is a prime example
10 years ago at 6:33 pmButt stuff lives on
10 years ago at 9:09 am