A Tragedy: Greek Moratorium

The Divine Nine was a group of Greek organizations bound together to strive and better the African-American community with brotherhood or sisterhood in community service and social activities. Now everyone knows that there are skirmishes between Greek organizations everywhere, especially on the campus of Southern University. Before a person is Greek, they are first black. Add some hostility into the mix with some pride and groups will always have a catastrophe.
As a man of the Rho Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, INC, I am inclined to “feel some type of way” about this situation.
As everyone knows, the moratorium was set at the end of the Spring 2014 semester; no surprises there. The key word is, “why?“ I cannot get a concise reasoning on why these things are happening, but I’ve been chill for too long on this subject matter. The word, “Moratorium” according to Merriam-Webster means the suspension of an activity or a waiting period set by an authority. Moratorium to me, old heads, and other Greeks means complete bul*sh*t. If there is not a single document stating the implications on which we are barred then it is technically word of mouth and oh yea GroupMe doesn’t count.
I sat in meetings wondering “why.” Putting my thoughts together and configuring a well deserved answer for this atrocity and I couldn’t come up with a single consensus on why the Greeks are on moratorium. Did someone die? Was an organization accused of hazing? Did someone’s ass fall off? Has anyone fought or committed crimes? Don’t worry I’ll wait for intelligence.
I don’t recall the Advocate or the news coming to save the day, so my impressions are that nothing was serious enough for this ordeal to pass.
As much as this campus wants to increase enrollment, I’m hella surprised that you placed this ordeal because in fact this will decrease enrollment and decrease the people that want to come to Divine Intervention? People won’t come here if they can’t be Greek and trust me it has been proven. Who wants to come to an interest meeting and not be able to represent themselves on their own yard? How frivolous does that sound?
Let’s start off with the petty rules of no social activities and when to wear para. On Wednesday, November 5, there was an electronic letter sent out that said, “Greeks can wear para at events as well as on Thursday to enact Greek Pride Thursday.”
So you’re telling me, administration, a grown man in my own right, that I can’t wear para whenever I feel like it? Did you buy it? The last time I checked the receipt, I was the one paying for the item. I was then told that if this rule is violated, the organization could be suspended. DO you know how stupid that sounds? All you’re doing is throwing blood in a wolf cage because this does not excuse the moratorium or save your “reputation” because you have none because we pay you. Parents and others are turning in their graves to hear the frivolity of this. I wonder how this would look on your term to get raises. Crank this back ten years and I wonder how they would deal with this.
At the end of the day, I’m not saying that we are entitled to more and if we do something punishable besides be “bad little boys and girls,” then punish us. We as human beings are not entitled to freedom but how much harm do we cause? If you want to put us on a leash, then have the gumption enough to put so in writing instead of treating us like scientific experiments because the mind games might work on others but it won’t work on me.
The moratorium is therefore unjustified, irrefutable, and downright to the core, bul*sh*t unless it is therefore in writing and can be proven to the absolute core.