The last thing Jesus Cuellar had on his mind, as he and his brother traversed the USC campus on their way to meet up with a friend, was becoming a central figure in the ongoing drama engulfing the school’s Greek system. It was around midnight on a chilly Thursday in January, and their route took them down fraternity row, a stretch along 28th Street from Hoover Street to Figueroa Boulevard. Not surprisingly, the row was jumping with the sounds of fraternity brothers and sorority sisters blowing off steam at the end of a long week hitting the books. Jesus, a quiet, studious type, didn’t pay much mind. To the financial-aid student, the Greek scene felt like a different world, filled with privileged jocks and overindulging rich kids. Still, what he saw when he came upon a party at Alpha Epsilon Pi made him stop. Running along the front entrance of the white-and-blue box-shaped fraternity house was a makeshift replica of the U.S.-Mexico border with barbed wire looped around the top of the rented 6-foot-high fence, topped with a “Danger, Keep Out” sign. Next to the fence was a flashing red light, and a cardboard sign that read: “Welcome to Mexico.”
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