![]() ![]() Kappa Alpha Order’s national organization then suspended the chapter, angering even some Black students on the Georgetown, Texas, campus who have not typically regarded Kappa Alphas as allies. The unusual breaking of ranks was initiated this summer by Noah Clark, a Southwestern alumnus who had, in 2017, become the first Black student to graduate as an active member of the college’s Kappa Alpha chapter. ![]() ![]() “KA nationally has a deeply troubling history that active chapters can no longer cry ignorance to,” they said in a statement drafted over often-tense Zoom meetings and GroupMe texts. Members of the Southwestern University chapter demanded that the fraternity drop its association with Lee and investigate the racial harms they say Kappa Alphas have inflicted. One campus demanded an apology after Kappa Alphas recited a chant lamenting the Union victory in the Civil War.īut the killing of George Floyd has for the first time started a racial reckoning within the fraternity’s own chapters. Black student groups have protested its antebellum-themed spring formals. Lee, the Confederate general, as a “spiritual founder” has rankled students and faculty members.
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