By: jiggs
To “Current UA Student” – couldn’t agree more! It was like that back when I attended UA and it seems little has changed. The admissions department needs to do a better job of filtering out these...
View ArticleBy: SunyUnrecognized
The sad part is SAMMY is unrecognized both by the school and nationally at Albany, Oneonta, and Binghamton and i know they do this same “tradition” at all of them. They bring an awful name to the...
View ArticleBy: someone who knows
these so called innocent victims that some are portraying them to be are the exact same group who trashed a house on Partridge Street about a month ago and got away with it…and a few cars as...
View ArticleBy: GrammerPoPo
“The Albany Police (ARE) on a rampage and they know they have the court system behind them(comma), so they can get away with anything and everything. The Albany Police (ARE) to prove a point and...
View ArticleBy: Current UA Student
@GrammerPoPo It’s amazing how many people have totally missed that point only to further reiterate how vapid the local populace is.
View ArticleBy: Comment
To grammerpopo….. Don’t know when you get your information from but there are police quotas. And if you read the articles, not one pledge said he was there involuntarily nor was he hurt. Statements...
View ArticleBy: Comment
The International Offices of Sigma Alpha Mu Fraternity posted a press release on their website at: http://sam.org/press-release-regarding-hazing-arrests-at-suny-albany FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:...
View ArticleBy: Diogenes II
If SUNYA and the APD had started cracking down on clowns like these years ago we wouldn’t be having problems like this today. Albany has a crime rate significantly higher than NYC’s in large part...
View ArticleBy: slsangus
I graduated UAlbany in 1990 and was a member of Sigma Lambda Sigma (SLS). SLS was a local fraternity founded at the NYS College for Teachers in 1937. Our fraternity lasted until 1968, and was...
View ArticleBy: Current UA Student
@slsangus You are correct in that UA needs to increase its acceptance standards, you are incorrect in assuming that UA needs greek life. This is a state school, it’s meant for affordable education. I...
View ArticleBy: phil
slsangus – I actually have fond memories of SLS from back in the day: Down-to-earth, normal guys who treated each other and their friends with respect. Can’t say the same for some of the other...
View ArticleBy: phil
By the way, why doesn’t the ASP ever update it’s website? I was actually interested in reading what the UAlbany students wrote about this case but was greeted by articles from nearly a year ago when I...
View ArticleBy: Lauren Mineau
Hi Phil, My name is Lauren Mineau and I am the news editor for the ASP. I tried emailing you on the address you gave here but I recieved an error message. I just wanted to let you know that we are...
View ArticleBy: someone who was actually there
Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. As I am reading this I can only laugh. We were branded the name “sammy”, we did not give ourselves that title. Initially the police said we were...
View ArticleBy: alum1997
Phil, You cast a broad cloth while invoking the name of some of the organizations above. You inference that: “It was the big ones that were trouble; SAM, SAE, TEP, TKE, Pi Kapa Phi, SXE to name a few....
View ArticleBy: Diogenes II
I’m very skeptical of the people supporting this fraternity. You seem to think some of the people here don’t have proof that the article is true or to back up their comments, but then don’t provide any...
View ArticleBy: Sarah
These guys new exactly what they were getting into, they could have walked anytime. This torture was going on for weeks, beatings, burnings and unbelievable sadistic activities. This is a gang that had...
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