On Nov. 18, 2004, OSU administrators banned Alpha Phi Alpha and seven other Black fraternities and sororities from having dances in the student union after Stillwater police found a gun Oct. 2 on a man involved in one of many fights at an Alpha Phi Alpha dance. The man was not a student.
Charles Christopher, an alumnus of OU's Alpha Phi Alpha chapter, said the fraternity could lose potential pledges who don't want to be associated with a negative image.
``It's so amazing with all the great contributions our young people make to the community that a bad apple can ruin the party,'' said Christopher, who lives in the Dallas area.
No violence took place at a Jan. 14 dance at the OSU Student Union, which was followed by the after-party at the hotel. That party was not university-sanctioned but was invitation only.
Members were trying to bar access to some people when one man began shooting randomly into the hotel suite. Karras Mitchell Harrison of Oklahoma City has been charged with murder, and another man, Louis Jerome Jones of Oklahoma City, is charged as an accessory.
— Associated Press
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