{"id":1611,"date":"2007-03-07T16:47:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T21:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2007\/03\/07\/fiji-flyers-at-ut\/"},"modified":"2007-03-07T16:47:13","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T21:47:13","slug":"fiji-flyers-at-ut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/fiji-flyers-at-ut\/","title":{"rendered":"FIJI Flyers at UT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/riddle\/413997613\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" border=\"0\" alt=\"413997613_8bb2471301_m.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/images\/2007\/03\/413997613_8bb2471301_m.jpg?resize=180%2C240\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Prentiss posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/riddle\/413997613\/\">a photo<\/a> of a copy of supposed FIJI pledge rules that appeared all over the UT campus yesterday. The Daily Texan article <a href=\"http:\/\/media.www.dailytexanonline.com\/media\/storage\/paper410\/news\/2007\/03\/07\/TopStories\/Flyer.Stirs.Controversy.By.Alleging.Fraternity.Has.Racist.Pledge.Rules-2761871.shtml\">theorizes that they&#8217;re a hoax<\/a>, which seems likely.<\/p>\n<p>I vividly remember the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utwatch.org\/timeline.html\">sambo incident in 1990<\/a> when I was attending UT as an undergraduate. Only a few months earlier, I&#8217;d naively tried to attend a Fiji party with a few friends. I knew at least one pledge class member that year along with one active member, so I briefly separated from the girls I was with to see if I could find one of them. I was there barely 10 minutes before I was surrounded by at least four Fijis who informed me that I had to leave because I &#8220;had an earring&#8221;. This was early 1990, so I suppose that guys having their ears pierced was a little out of the ordinary. It seems pretty tame by today&#8217;s standards. Anyway, I pointed out that I was with several women who would be leaving the party with me. No dice. I was escorted out along with my friends, never to return.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing things haven&#8217;t changed much in the last 17 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prentiss posted a photo of a copy of supposed FIJI pledge rules that appeared all over the UT campus yesterday. The Daily Texan article theorizes that they&#8217;re a hoax, which seems likely. I vividly remember the sambo incident in 1990 when I was attending UT as an undergraduate. Only a few months earlier, I&#8217;d naively <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/fiji-flyers-at-ut\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-pZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}