NORTHRIDGE : Students Protest Lifting of Fraternity Suspension
Cal State Northridge students held two demonstrations Monday to protest university President Blenda J. Wilson’s decision to cut short the suspension of a fraternity that was being punished for distributing an offensive party flyer.
About 200 attended a lunch-hour rally and another 200 took part in an evening rally, marching across the campus carrying signs with slogans criticizing the fraternity, Zeta Beta Tau, and Wilson.
The fraternity was suspended in November for 14 months after members admitted distributing a party flyer that made derogatory references to Mexican women.
Wilson agreed last week to reinstate the fraternity on April 1 rather than fight a free-speech lawsuit by the fraternity that university legal advisers predicted the school would lose.
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