http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070509/NEWS/705090356 wrote:
Members of a University of Delaware honor fraternity who dressed up as Latino gardeners and gangsters and attended a South of the Border-theme party have stirred up outrage and cries of racism on the Newark campus.
Cinco de Mayo party photographs that appeared online this week have prompted the Campus Alliance de La Raza, a Latino student organization, to demand the fraternity expel participants. The apparent off-campus party was not sanctioned by the Phi Sigma Pi honor fraternity.
Cinco de Mayo party photographs that appeared online this week have prompted the Campus Alliance de La Raza, a Latino student organization, to demand the fraternity expel participants. The apparent off-campus party was not sanctioned by the Phi Sigma Pi honor fraternity.
Keep in mind the source, Delaware News Journal, has had many incorrect statements before (In a story about a friend of mine dying in a car crash, there were at least three errors), but most of this is true as near as I can verify. The party was indeed off-campus, and the photos I found and stories I have read online match up well with the reported story.
Now, the news journal can't report on what was said on the shirts, but La Raza has the photos on their page now:
http://www.campuslaraza.org/racism.html
Down at the bottom it shows the gardeners with the term "Spic N' Span Gardening" on shirts that have "Jose" and "Pedro" nametags. There are also three wearing white, red, and green shirts that say "Spicy" "Full of Tequila" and "Hott" on the back and "Mexico" on the front.
La Raza, the Latino group of the University, demands that everyone in attendance at the party face judicial sanctions, and that anyone who was a member of the honors frat be expelled from the organization.
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