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Gamma Phi sorority on suspension for dressing like Indians
Grand Forks Herald ^ | Joseph Marks

Posted on 03/29/2008 12:35:24 PM PDT by RogerFGay

The Gamma Phi Beta sorority at University of North Dakota has been put on temporary social probation while the university investigates complaints stemming from a November party during which sorority members and their guests donned mock Indian garb and red face and body paint.

The temporary probation was issued by both the UND Dean of Student’s Office, which will investigate the complaints, and by the Gamma Phi Beta International office in Centennial, Colo.

The probation means Gamma Phi won’t be allowed to host or participate in social activities with other sororities and fraternities or other student groups, either on or off campus, during the investigation, UND Dean of Students Lillian Elsinga said.

Photos from the November party show sorority members in “Indian maiden”-style dresses and feather headdresses. Some male guests are dressed in makeshift loincloths and smeared with red paint.

Elsinga wouldn’t speculate on what, if any, penalty her office will recommend once the investigation is complete, but said, as dean of students, she did not condone the behavior be-ing described.

In a brief statement released late today, UND President Charles Kupchella gave his support to the investigation and said “appropriate action will be taken at the conclusion of the review.”

Gamma Phi’s central office also issued a statement today.

“Gamma Phi Beta International Sorority sincerely regrets the recently-reported actions involving chapter members at the University of North Dakota. We realize that the actions of the chapter demonstrate the need for greater chapter education about diversity and personal dignity.”

The Gamma Phi party first came to public attention late last week after Margaret Scott, an American Indian student who frequents UND’s American Indian Student Services house, found photos of the party on the Facebook site of Anastasia Ginda, the sorority’s current president.

The American Indian Student Services House is next door to the Gamma Phi house.

Scott copied the photos onto her photobucket.com site and forwarded that link to an anti-nickname campus e-mail list.

The Herald also linked to Scott’s photobucket site in its early coverage of the Gamma Phi party. Many of those photos have since been removed from the site and replaced with a note that they violated the site’s user agreement.

About 10 American Indian students wrote an official discrimination complaint about the Gamma Phi party late last week, and that form was delivered to Elsinga this morning.

Between 50 and 60 discrimination or harassment complaints are filed at UND every year, covering a broad range of issues, Page said. Elsinga said it has been several years since a complaint was filed against a fraternity or sorority.

Calls made to Ginda and the sorority house since Friday have not been returned.



TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: North Dakota
KEYWORDS: americanindians; hypersensitivity; leftismoncampus; pc; und
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1 posted on 03/29/2008 12:35:24 PM PDT by RogerFGay
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To: RogerFGay

Why is it insulting to dress as an Indian? WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?


2 posted on 03/29/2008 12:37:12 PM PDT by Hildy (Obama: "Yes, I sat in his church, but I didn't inhale.")
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To: Hildy

Good thing these PC police weren’t in Boston in 1775!


3 posted on 03/29/2008 12:39:12 PM PDT by CondorFlight (I)
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To: RogerFGay
an official discrimination complaint

Help me out here ... I don't see any discrimination. Were Indians denied access to the fraternity? Denied jobs? Denied admittance to the school? Was there any discrimination at all?

Oh -- right! White people aren't allowed to wear that kind of outfit. Only Indians are allowed to dress like that. Indians are special. White people need to know their place and only wear "white people" clothing. Okay. NOW I see the discrimination.

4 posted on 03/29/2008 12:40:09 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: RogerFGay

I guess we should be insulted if Indians dress like non-Indian folk.....


5 posted on 03/29/2008 12:40:44 PM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: RogerFGay

Gee, I guess that let’s out the recognition of bravery and independent spirit of the Boston Tea Party.


6 posted on 03/29/2008 12:41:10 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: RogerFGay
You have got to be kidding, right? Why does she not write and complain to the Atlanta Braves and the Cleveland Indians?

I'm offended she is impersonating a human being, get a fricking life and stop being so faggy sensative.

Imagine how "sensative" B. Hussein Obama will force onto people through legislation "if" he is elected?

7 posted on 03/29/2008 12:41:19 PM PDT by ma bell (bollocks... its just bollocks)
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To: RogerFGay

I bet they are now on double secret probation


8 posted on 03/29/2008 12:41:23 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: RogerFGay

Can’ decide on their guilt or innocence without photographic evidence....


9 posted on 03/29/2008 12:42:38 PM PDT by Kozak (Anti Shahada: There is no god named Allah, and Muhammed is a false prophet)
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To: Hildy

I have no idea, as a person with a lot of American Indian bllod, I am not offended???


10 posted on 03/29/2008 12:42:57 PM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: RogerFGay
They should have dressed up as transvetites, crackwhores, or gangbangers. I doubt they would have been bothered at all.
11 posted on 03/29/2008 12:43:37 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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Be aware though, that 10 people, perhaps not even all 10 Indians, filed a complaint. They do not represent Native Americans as a whole. What they are is liberals who have jumped onto the whining “Feeeeeelings are hurt” band wagon.
12 posted on 03/29/2008 12:46:19 PM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: RogerFGay
Well, I guess I should be offended that the Indian maiden is attending college and trying to act like a typical white person.

Get her back to the re-education reservation.

Fair is fair.

13 posted on 03/29/2008 12:48:18 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: ma bell

faggy?...faggy?...you can’t say “faggy”...in a few years you will face prison time for using that “hate” speech on a public forum...this is, if there are still public forums.


14 posted on 03/29/2008 12:48:45 PM PDT by kjo
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To: gidget7

Did they all get drunk like Indians too??

I know, I know,

LORD I APOLOGIZE


15 posted on 03/29/2008 12:49:07 PM PDT by Selmore (Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.)
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To: RogerFGay
About 10 American Indian students wrote an official discrimination complaint about the Gamma Phi party late last week....

Okay. Am I to assume that these '10 American Indian students' wear 'traditional American Indian' clothing on campus everyday or do they wear 'white man' clothes?
I respectfully submit that if indeed they do not wear traditional American Indian clothing everyday they should be expelled.

16 posted on 03/29/2008 12:50:45 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Hildy

Substitute any other ethnic group and you may see why it is insulting. A look at the Thanksgiving greeting cards in November shows that we tend to single out Indians as acceptable objects of caricature.


17 posted on 03/29/2008 12:50:59 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: RogerFGay

Ugh.


18 posted on 03/29/2008 12:51:16 PM PDT by doodad
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To: RogerFGay

YGTBSM!!!!


19 posted on 03/29/2008 12:51:22 PM PDT by infantrywhooah (Hold your nose and vote in November. Even McCain is better than the alternatives)
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To: RogerFGay

The idiots are running the asylum.


20 posted on 03/29/2008 12:51:47 PM PDT by pallis
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