Greek party a display of stupidity

Every student at OSU should give a personal word of thanks to the three imbeciles from Alpha Gamma Rho who set race relations on this campus back about a hundred years. 
 
If the small minority of non-white students on this campus didn't have enough reason to be suspicious of its hordes of WASPs, they certainly do now. 
 
If you haven't seen them - or heard - several pictures surfaced on the Web of AGR's recent "Come as you are Bizarre" [sic]. Among the pictures were a student dressed like a Klansman (yes, that Klan), another like a prototypical redneck and another - unfortunately, not making this up - in blackface and a black and white prison costume (yes, that kind of blackface).  
 
Without pointing out the obvious, there are several disturbing aspects to these pictures. First, this happened at a college function, albeit a private one, in the 21st century. 
 
Second, three men smart enough to get into a university - this university - would think that this is funny or, better yet, that they would see a camera and ham it up. Yes, a camera. 
 
Third, that in many of the pictures (which were originally posted at www.geneseephoto.com, a party picture-taking service) there are several people laughing about what they're doing. What's worse, the fact that three students did it or that so many more saw nothing wrong with it? Complicity is as ignorance does. 
 
Fourth, this is a house of men that consistently has some of the best grades of any organization on campus, who ritualistically wins homecoming and who - up until now - went against the stereotype of fraternity life. In other words, these are otherwise intelligent men who, by not stepping up and saying that something was indeed very wrong (the evidence of which is in the myriad of pictures with the three fellas in a variety of wacky poses) showed the Power of One is obviously not very strong at AGR, at least when it comes to making fun of grand ol' traditions such as lynching and blackface. 
 
To add to the hilarity, it was an anonymous student who sent the pictures out. Everywhere. Apparently, either one relatively shock-able guest at the "Come as you are Bizarre," one scared to death member, or one soul at Genessee saw that, whether or not this was a private party, this was just plain dumb. 
 
So now that the obvious has been pointed out, what is OSU to do? What is AGR National to do? 
 
On OSU's end, there is obviously a conflict. First, this was a private party. Second, free speech - even really stupid free speech - is protected, especially in private. 
 
On the other end of it, though, if they don't do something along the line of kicking the house of campus, it's going to make OSU look like a bunch of cracker-toting bigots (something that's obviously not far from the truth to begin with).  
 
For AGR National, if it doesn't revoke the OSU chapter's charter, it will make the fraternity look about the same. 
 
Unfortunately, the actions of three will now taint the entire house. I talked to a few AGR alumni about it, and they were predictably furious about the stupidity involved. 
 
Then there's the idea of leadership. Did anyone in the house see the way they were behaving? Did they not think that maybe this is just a bit too bizarre? 
 
"It was a private party," is obviously not an excuse and I'm assuming the powers that be at AGR realize this. 
 
Furthermore, now that the story has escaped the Poke State Bubble, it paints Okies - not exactly a people who reside in a place where black and white walk hand-in-hand (I would reference the Tulsa race riots as exhibit A) wholly as bigots, something that is profoundly not true. (If you were a black family, would you send your children to OSU after seeing those pictures? I sure as hell wouldn't). 
 
By representing OSU in the worst possible manner, they have damaged our collective reputations elsewhere, have sent a gunshot wound into the body of race relations here and have disgraced their house, the greek system, Oklahoma State and Oklahoma, all while reaffirming the beliefs of many non-white students here that they are merely guests on honkey soil. 
 
What an ugly story and what a shame. 
 
Ciao.