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At 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday several students including seniors Ashley Tsai, Tong Xiang and Ting-Ting Zhou posted flyers across Duke's campus protesting a Kappa Sigma party that took place Feb. 1. The flyers included emails sent out to party invitees as well as photographs of students at the party, which were taken from Facebook.
The party was originally called "Kappa Sigma Asia Prime" before a report was filed with the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, after which a second email was then sent to invitees. The message said Asia Prime was canceled and a new party "International Relations" would instead take place.
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The flyers imposed text over the message calling the party a "racist rager" and speculated that Kappa Sigma may lose its charter, which it regained the past year, sarcastically writing "Nice one, Broseph Stalin!!!!! You won't get unchartered for this!!! ;)."
Interfraternity Council formally recognized the fraternity last year, nearly 10 years after it disbanded in 2002.
Shortly after the flyers were posted Tuesday morning, some covering entire bulletin boards, members of Kappa Sigma were seen removing them.
"This is not just about Asians, one party or one frat," Tsai said. "This is a consistent thing happening. We want serious things to be done by the student body and the University so that this never happens again."
Although Zhou is the sitting president of the Asian Students Association, she made it clear that the distribution of flyers was not affiliated with any particular organization. She said that undergraduate students of all races participated in the flyering.
Xiang is a former managing editor for online of The Chronicle.
A protest against the party will be held at the West Campus bus stop tomorrow at 1 p.m.
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