Word: frats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...event, which was held by Zeta Beta Tau, a primarily Jewish fraternity, pledges wore black face makeup and afro wigs and performed impersonations of Oprah Winfrey and the Jackson Five on stage. Students said that the Oprah impersonation had sexist implications because frat members pulled the pledge's arms back and forth saying "this is my girlfriend Oprah," hitting her and calling her "bitch," according to the Wisconsin Daily Cardinal...
...Committee on Student Organizations, a body of students responsible for disciplining student groups, is in the process of compiling and reviewing a case against the frat, said Noel T. Radomski, vice president of the Wisconsin Student Association (WSA), which includes the disciplinary committee...
...committee has the option of expelling the frat, placing it on probation or suspension, or dismissing the complaint, Radomski said...
Last week, the student disciplinary committee demanded that the frat release two video tapes that are the only formal evidence of the event. Although the fraternity missed its Monday deadline for submission of the tapes, its lawyer passed in one tape a day later, Radomski said. It is unclear who made the tapes...
...think [the slave auction] was wrong, definitely wrong; they had no right to do that," said junior James L. Bourne, who said the frat should be "kicked off campus for good...