BU Frat Suspended for Inappropriate Party Promotion
Boston University announced Thursday that it has suspended the school’s Kappa Sigma fraternity chapter after it allegedly promoted a pre-Christmas party at Boston’s Royale nightclub with misogynistic and sexually suggestive videos and photos.
According to BU Today, the school’s official news site:
The party, scheduled to be held at Boston’s Royale nightclub, was promoted online with a link to a website with pictures and video of “a culture of abusive behavior that openly celebrates verbal sexual coercion, belittling women, grabbing, groping, forced kissing, and the badgering of women for sex,’’ [assistant dean of students John] Battaglino wrote (in a February 6 letter). Promotion photos for the party showed close-ups of women kissing open-mouthed, women’s bare breasts, and women’s buttocks, among other images.
The “University Blackout’’ party was scheduled for Dec. 10 of last year but was eventually canceled, the nightclub told BU Today. The fraternity can apply for reinstatement July 9, according to the report.
