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The USC furor signals a pivotal moment for the American college fraternity system, as more Greek members and student coalitions mount protests against an often toxic culture.
BU’s chapter of the Kappa Sigma fraternity has been suspended while University officials investigate serious allegations of sexual misconduct.
Sexual assaults and hazing deaths are harsh realities that have students at universities demanding stronger oversight, and in some cases, abolishing fraternities and sororities. We’ll look at how colleges and universities address the issues surrounding Greek life on campus.
In the numbers game of the 1950s, one man was on top: ‘Whitetop’ Simkins John Kelly In his book “I Came As a Shadow,” Big John Thompson mentions a numbers runner named Simpson. Was Simpson called “Whitetop”? Somehow, that comes to me. — Jesse Washington, is an evocative look at an earlier D.C. The famed Georgetown coach wrote about moving with his family from Anacostia to a brick house on W Street NW at age 10. “That’s where I learned that bricks hide poverty,” he wrote. “Back in Southeast we could tell which were the poor people’s houses because...
Thousands across D.C. played the illegal lottery. Simkins bribed the cops to keep it going.