by Gregory Parks | Mar 28, 2016 | BGLOs
It’s political season. That’s not just the case nationally in presidential, senatorial, and congressional races. It’s also political season in organizations like black Greek-letter organizations (BGLOs), and no race is more hotly contested than the one who decides...
by Gregory Parks | Mar 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
For much of the Twentieth Century, black Greek-letter organizations (“BGLOs”) had few, major—e.g., deaths, law suits, major press—hazing incidents. But once the 1970s came, everything changed (deaths in red): 1977 | ALPHA | Bradley University 1977 | OMEGA | North...
by Gregory Parks | Mar 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
I’m an active member of a number of black organizations—fraternal and professional. In one of the professional organizations, I serve on two committees and have done so for a few years. Last year, during the national convention for this organization, candidates for...
by Gregory Parks | Mar 7, 2016 | BGLOs
One of the great threats that bedevil black Greek-letter organizations (BGLOs)—not simply in the context of hazing but more generally as well—is blind allegiance. Blind allegiance is a concept typically studied in the context of patriotism or group identification...
by Gregory Parks | Feb 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
In recent months, I’ve turned back to revising my book manuscript on hazing within black Greek-letter organizations (BGLOs). This will be one of my last books on these groups, and much of my focus at this point is on the range of factors that give rise to and...
