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WEDNESDAY
What's going on?
September 8
Rosh Hashanah begins.
The Office of Study Abroad will be hosting its fall study abroad fair from 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
THURSDAY
September 9
The KU Natural History Museum student advisory board invites KU students to enjoy pizza (while it lasts). tour museum exhibits, join the student advisory board and find out about free memberships for students. Plus, we're showing Night at the Museum! This event is free with a KU student I.D.
SUNDAY
September 10
FRIDAY
September 12
The School of Music will be hosting a student recital with Sylvia Stoner-Hawkins from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall of Murphy Hall.
The Department of Visual Art will be hosting a reception for the closing of "Peace Be With Yo Asses," a collection by Kansas-City-based artist Dylan Mortimer, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in room 302 of the Art and Design building.
The Memorial Campanile will be hosting carillon concert by Elizabeth Berghout from 5 to 5:30 p.m.
MONDAY
SATURDAY September 11
September 13
The Langston Hughes Center will be hosting its Jesse B. Semple Brownbag series lecture with DaMaris Hill from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Alcove A of the Kansas Union.
The Hall Center for the Humanities will be hosting "Science, Politics, and Climate Change," a free lecture by Elizabeth Kolbert, at 7:30 p.m. at the Hall Center.
Student Union Activities will be hosting its Hawk Zone student tailgate near Memorial Campanile.
- There will be a Monarch Watch open house from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Foley Hall.
TUESDAY
September 14
Peer Health Educators will be hosting a smokeout from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in front of Wescoe Hall
- Ecumenical Christian Ministries will be hosing a community forum on homelessness at 12 p.m. at the ECM center, 1204 Oread Ave.
GREEK LIFE
Pledge sues San Jose State sorority for being hazed
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
SAN JOSE, Calif. — When honor student Courtney Howard pledged to join a sorority at San Jose State University, she sought the support of close sisters in the school's small African-American community.
Instead, what she got was ritualized hazing that included a nearly month-long string of beatings,
punching, kicking and paddling according to a lawsuit filed in Santa Clara County Superior Court this week — an episode that experts say is far too common among African-American Greek organizations.
Howard, 20, has sued eight students, the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority and the university, saying it failed to investigate and protect her from retaliation by sorority members after reporting the 2008
incident. She has since withdrawn from SISU and transferred to the University of Southern California, saying she didn't feel safe.
"There was physical violence," said Howard's attorney, Angela Reddock of Los Angeles. Howard is seeking unspecified damages. "Any number of steps could have been taken by the university to change her living situation and provide security, but that did not happen."
In one instance, Howard said she and two other pledges were blindfolded and taken to Princess Odom's San Jose backyard, where they were sprayed with a hose. In another, they were hit on their hands and knuckles with a wooden spoon. Later they were slammed into walls, hit with a kitchen pot and punched in the stomach.
After the hazing, then being stalked and threatened," she feared
for her life and did not believe she would survive if she returned to the university."
Founded in 1922 in the midst of segregation, Sigma Gamma Rho was created to enhance the quality of college life through public service and leadership development. According to its website, the sorority has 500 chapters with 90,000 members, including former U.S. Rep Corrine Brown, D-Fla., U.S.
Rep. Corrine Claiborne Boggs, D-La., and many prominent musicians, actresses and writers.
In 1989, Morehouse College sophomore Joel Harris died after suffering numerous blows to the chest and face, a custom known as "thunder and lightning." The fraternity Alpha Phi Alpha—whose historical roster includes Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall—settled for $500,000.
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