Temple Town hall meeting addresses 'crisis'

Temple University's Progressive NAACP group discussed several incidents, one of which involved Sig Ep.

"There is a crisis in the black community ... be it on Temple's campus, be it in North Philadelphia, be it in the United States; it's very real and it needs to be addressed," Sanya Daniels, president of Temple's Progressive NAACP, said at Wednesday's town hall meeting. "And we, the Progressive NAACP and all students, are uniting to take a stand and say enough is enough."

The meeting followed a letter addressed to the University and the community written by Daniels and Temple Student Government President Naeem Thompson. The letter recalled two separate events, an alleged hazing incident of a white student at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house that led to Temple's suspension of the fraternity's charter for a year and an alleged harassment of five black undergraduate females in the Kardon building by a group of white male students.

The topic most discussed was the incident involving Sig Ep. Another topic of discussion included the lack of literary works by blacks in the Intellectual Heritage program and the need for a "comprehensive, zero-tolerance racial and hazing policy."

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