Cross-posted from www.whatsrequiredky.com. This site will cease posting Wednesday, and my content will be available there exclusively.
I wasn’t planning on writing a post tonight, but had two things that caught my attention: a hazing fraternity at EKU, and the mind-blowing failure of the Google Adsense algorithm.
- As far as adsense goes, could we be doing any worse for this site’s demographic? I’ve seen “Visit Lexington,” and have no issue there, but promoting John McCain, the Flat Tax, and Ann Coulter’s columns…wow. What I get for criticizing Steve Beshear, obviously.
- And then there’s the fraternity. Kappa Alpha Psi apparently has an issue with EKU, and that’s bad. A couple of things that the Herald-Leader missed that you might need to know if you want to be conversant in this story (there are other higher ed geeks out there, right? Bueller? Bueller?): First, at a school the size of EKU, you have to do something REALLY blatant or dumb. Second, hazing policies are no joke anymore. Third, Kappa Alpha Psi is what we denizens of the Greek world call a “multicultural” fraternity, which is to say that they’re primarily African-American., but also a member of the North-American Interfraternity Council (which is fully integrated), which means that they’re more obligated to a progressive stance than many traditionally white organizations. It’ll be interesting to see what, if any, the fallout there is– there seems to be one of these stories every year (Goats at Western, anybody?)–and I’m beginning to think the administrations are going to lost patience with the system.
