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Omegas stomp the yard
Issue date: 1/28/08 Section: Campus News
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The Rho Psi chapter was founded on the TSU, then Tennessee A&I College, campus on April 30, 1930 as the first National Pan-Hellenic organization at the school.
"I thinks it's wonderful because another unified organization will be able to fight the plague that's warming our Black men," said Christopher Garner, a junior mass communication major from Chicago.
In 2001, the chapter was banned from the TSU campus after being linked to the death of TSU student Joseph Terry Green Jr.
"The fraternity was on suspension for reportedly underground pledging," said Ronald Myles, director of student activities.
Compiled by Acquanetta G. Donnell Jr.
Marine fugitive flees to Mexico
Authorities believe Marine Corporal Cesar Laurean, indicted on first-degree murder charges in the death of Lance Corporal Maria Lauterbach, has fled to Mexico.
According to investigators, Laurean, age 21, killed Lauterbach who was eight months' pregnant at the time last month.
Lauterbach's burned body was found buried beneath a fire pit in Laurean's backyard.
Onslow County District Attorney Dewey Hudson said prosecutors will not seek the death penalty in this case if the suspect is apprehended in Mexico.
The Mexican government will not transfer prisoners if they face the death penalty.
Man displaying nooses indicted
Jeremiah Munsen, 18 of Grant Parish, La., has been indicted on federal charges for displaying nooses from the back of a pickup truck he was driving during a civil rights march held last year in Jena, La.
Several marchers in Alexandria, La., awaiting transportation back to Tennessee witnessed Munsen and an unidentified minor ride by repeatedly with nooses, made out of extention cords, attached to their pickup truck on Sept. 20, 2007.
According to abcnews.com, federal hate crime and civil rights conspiracy charges, for "his role in threatening and intimidating marchers" were brought against Munsen.
The noose incident in Jena, La., that led to the involvment of six Black youths, added fuel to months of racial confusion.
Compiled by Acquanetta G. Donnell Jr.•
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