Long Beach TKE Brothers Have Ugly Relationship with Camus Administration

Tau Kappa Epsilon Hits a Sour Note

The brothers of Tau Kappa Epsilon said the administration of the California State University in Long Beach treated members unfairly when they weren't allowed to hold a campus event last fall because their fraternity was suspended in 2004.

TKE had planned to sponsor a music festival in Long Beach with a radio station, but brothers were prohibited to participate if using the fraternity's name because of the suspension.

"Although (the campus life office) maintains that it's only for people having official events with TKE, it can't be denied that members of TKE that are regular students and members of the campus community are being discriminated against just because of one of their many associations," a spokesman for the university told its student newspaper.

The fraternity is suspended until 2010 at the campus for having parties and failing to meet academic standards.