It was a good marketing scheme in my eyes, but the national office of the Kappa Alpha Fraternity doesn’t agree. A University of Texas Fraternity Chapter lured pledges by hiring exotic dancers to perform sex acts at fraternity parties. Now that chapter is being sued by the national offices. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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Members of the school’s Kappa Alpha fraternity – suspended by its national office in June – also hazed recruits while violating the organization’s “highest ideals of gentlemanly conduct,” the lawsuit said.
“Despite prior efforts to rehabilitate and reform the culture of this chapter, the chapter continued to engage in hazing as well,” the lawsuit charged.
The court filing is the latest escalation of the fight between the local chapter and its national office. The Lexington, Va.-based fraternity suspended the Texas chapter for two years in June.
The chapter responded by quitting the national organization and continuing as an independent operation known as Texas Omicron.
Texas attorney Robby Alden, representing the local chapter and its alumni, denied there was any hazing – but admitted the fraternity hired a X-rated female entertainer and her partner for one of their bashes.
The lawsuit said the salacious sex shows occurred “on multiple occasions.”
The national office of Kappa Alpha is suing for more than $200,000 in money and property from its former Texas chapter, including dues and all artwork and furnishings from the house.
According to national fraternity lawyer Jim Ewbank, the hazings including shoving pledges along with forcing them to perform calisthenics on several occasions.
Alden said the fraternity members threatened to make the pledges perform push-ups – but never followed through on the threats.
“Is that hazing?” Alden asked. “As far as I’m concerned, it was a non-issue. Compared to the hazing at a lot of other fraternities, it was nothing.”
