Jackson Jambalaya

It took them a year to make this decision. I guess that was to receive another year's worth of endowment$ from alumni parents.

I am commenting only to say who gives a rats ass about this other than the chump who got hazed. They will all still be rich turds who will go on to be Dem lawyers . In other words...scum. Puck Frats and Puck Ole Piss.

It only takes one idiot to ruin it for everybody

Sounds like Animal House

If only mommies, daddies, and little babies knew that hazing is and has always been part of it. Frat life is not for everyone. Especially the pike house at ole miss!

Within 4 months the findings should have been found out and they not allowed back on campus this Fall. That's the universities fault for not being swift. I know for a fact they are not punishing hazing when they see it. Hazing is making someone do something you would not make a member do such as come pick me up, clean my room, go get me beer at a store. You may think it's trivial but lawyers and suing caused these things to happen. Not saying this was trivial just saying that little things such as cleaning the house is hazing.

@2:50, I have never been a fan of frats and sororities, but, after reading your comment, there is less than a hair’s difference between your mentality and that of a rich frat kid.

This suspension will serve notice to all frat houses across America that hazing will not be tolerated, and thus will never happen again, right?

Ps, hazing is supported and encouraged by the fathers of current fraternity members.

Call me whatever you want, but I guess I just have too much self-pride to have subjected myself to all that frat hazing bullshit. The first time somebody told me to do something that I didn't want to do, I would have handed them a big fat FU. I didn't need so-called friends that bad back in my college days.

3:00 p.m., it sounds to me as if you're supporting hazing. Is that the case? Why do you think it's a good idea? Enlighten us, please.

Bleach spritzer. That's an awfully high price to rent-a-friend.

Pike is for the roided up DB's who aren't real southern fraternity types, but want to pretend they are. Jacked up trucks with black rims, speakers, roids, tats, beat up their roomates(that happened at MS State by a Pike), short tempers, etc. You know the type, still think they are in high school on Friday night, but they are in college. Most don't have family money, but they pretend. They give the whole IFC system a bad name literally at every school they have a charter.

Hazing is one thing. Force feeding someone bleach is aggravated assault.

Kingfish, you may have your facts wrong. My understanding is they were on probation for the bleach incident and that there was a new incident this fall which prompted the current expulsion from campus.

Why would anyone pay money to be harassed and tortured? I have never been of fan of fraternities.

3:51, hazing is part of the ritual and we all know that. That was enough for me to say no thanks. I was fortunate enough to have a family member let me get a behind the scenes peek when I was in high school. If your getting bleach in the mouth than you probably should have not been rushing in the first place. Yes, the guy spraying should be punished, but let’s not forget what rushing for certain frats is all about. It’s all about certain types of people who are already accepted and those few that will do anything to be accepted.

Bigger question: why haven’t they been kicked off campus? Double secret probation obviously hasn’t worked.

@ 3:00

Let's see you down a big cup of Clorox and prove to the world you got what it takes to be a frat boy.

You critics obviously were not members of a fraternity. I was a Pike at OM. My senior year we had the highest GPA of all fraternities. We did several community service projects. So don’t generalize.

Your Delta Tau Chi name is Flounder.

Can’t even afford word press to report on this?

All I need to know. People generalize more now than ever, virtuism? Or 1984? Political certainly - what does that make you all? To find more interest in a few college freshmen than you have in the entirety of your lives? Worthless.

I was a pike at ole miss. If you guys want to burn down the Greek system have at it, it’s jealously - not virtuous.

The generalization and blanket statements about “all Pikes are…” is ignorant. The generalizations that “all fraternity guys are rich…” is ignorant. The generalization that “…you buy a friend…” if you’re in Greek life is ignorant. If you’re going to come on here and say anything - say something to support the healing of the individual that was hurt, say something to support the family of not only the young man injured, but also the families facing the possibility they may only see their son or sons behind bars in the years to come. For God sakes a lot of you sound like that kid who was picked last for the team during PE and are manifesting all your inferiority issues by smack talking this chapter and fraternities in general. This is not the first fraternity that’s been suspended at Ole Miss. SAE just went through this and there’s been others on this campus and nationwide. Stop embarrassing yourselves with idiotic statements like those previously mentioned!

@9:26, I was a member of a fraternity. I believe they should be abolished.

Though not at OM, I was also a Pike at another southern university. This is a tragic incident, but shouldn't reflect all Pike chapters or all fraternities. The Greek system has many benefits and offers opportunities for students to excel. Pikes will be back at Ole Miss, just as we returned to FSU.

This would never happen with a group of Kappa Alphas. All they did was dress up in Confederate uniforms, plaster on black-face, swill cheap beer and sing Hot Nuts for hours on end. So you see...It's not all Greeks who act asses.

5:17 am—excellent post. Informed and accurate.

It being Veterans Day I feel free in posting that neither Mississippi State University as a whole of the student body and fraternities in particular gave a GGD about returning vets in 1969. The frat boys developed a grand system of determining and categorizing instructors and classes that were the least demanding and even acquired and provided exams to members when possible. As a student on the GI Bill who worked part time I found myself and fellow veterans were second class citizens expected to keep our complaints to ourselves.

BTW, with just a minor mention of a possible confrontation 2 frats provided me with all the weekly Gen Bio tests with answers for the semester. They really offered a grand education at MSU back in the Good Ole Days.

'Pikes will be back at Ole Miss, just as we returned to FSU'

It ain't about *coming back*. It's about behavioral choices that cause you to be kicked off campus for five years in the first place.

They need to tighten down on a lot of behavior at the Pike house and take it seriously. One of their actives failed out of school in the spring. I see him in the house every time I visit the Pike house. He is allowed to stay there, rent free, and he participates in hazing as well. It’s a pig stye and needs to be shut down, fumigated, and opened back up in a few years. The alumni that care need to hold these boys more accountable. Other frats do this.

I was a very active member of “ I TAPPA Keg” back in the day! Great fraternity.

It is interesting that Ole Miss jumps to this conclusion for the Pikes, but not other fraternities. I quote, "The University will not tolerate hazing or any behavior that places the health and safety of our students at risk" Wow, I guess burning (branding) Greek letters onto the arms of young men, does not meet the Ole Miss standard of "health and safety" to be fair Miss State and Southern Miss allow the same branding (burning) to occur and say nothing of it. Guess they don't care about the "health and safety" of those people.

From Brent A. Marsh, Ph.D.
(Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
& Dean of Students) letter:

"The suspension of a chapter can be a stressful experience for all
involved. For those of you who may want to visit with someone as you
process this situation, I hope you will take advantage of the
services provided by the University Counseling Center."

WTF ???

"Counseling" for a few kids that have to move out of a damn Frat
House ?

Wheat barley alfalfa give ‘em hell kappa alpha

To November 11 at 6:52 PM
As some SAEs once yelled to the KAs at LSU after someone (we know not who) stole the artillery piece from in front of the KA house and dropped it off the Mississippi River bridge: " Wheat, Barley, Chicken Liver, Now your cannon's in the River!"
Geaux Tigers

This Would Never Happen To A Sigma Chi !

Stand aside, children. Some of us big-boys are here for the panty-raid.

if institutions of higher learning spent a tenth as much time getting rid of radical, communist-leaning professors as they do policing and controlling the behavior of children, LORD what a great education system we would have.

I'm a Pike. Was not an active at Ole Miss.

If the fraternity was illegally hazing, caught, and then too stupid to change and got caught again... Bye Felicia.

Once a chapter gets off the rails, a pause is a good thing. I look forward to Pike rechartering and rebuilding at Ole Miss.

Yes, I'd let my son pledge Pike after rechartering. Those "new" chapters are some of the strongest.

I was in a fraternity for 4 years. It was fine. And then I put away childish things. They should be abolished.

12:52 - Greek-life ain't all that. Tell your freshman son to be smart and go for a 'walk on' position on the football team. At least he'll get to duck-walk, nekkid across the gym floor with a molasses-coated olive clinched tightly between his ass-cheeks.