The Washington City Paper today files from Georgia Avenue, where two students at Howard University have filed a lawsuit against Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc., and have named Howard University as a defendant, for alleged hazing and complicit allowance of hazing. From the City Paper:

Some of the “hazing” rules sound innocuous, if extensive, like being forbidden from wearing the sorority colors of pink and green or any colors that could be blended into pink and green. In one humorous moment, the lawsuit notes that the pledges, who were called the “sweets,” couldn’t even wear white pearls.

Other hazing allegations are more serious. At one point, the pledges were told not to talk to non-sorority members at Howard, according to the suit.  “[Alpha Kappa Alpha members] on campus addressed the sweets by calling them weak bitches,” Compton’s mother wrote in a complaint to the sorority.

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