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Sigma Nu Fraternity at Kent State University
By: Ehimwenma E. Aimiuwu
Dec 2007

 

Sigma Nu Fraternity around 1995 to 1996 where known as the barbarians of the White Greek organizations even by fellow Greeks.  They were known to get drunk and fight wildly at parties and sporting events, especially when the result was not going their way.   To many of the international students that played against them, they were more than just barbarians.  This was because they always tried to injure non-European players physically in an attempt to show their superiority over them. 

During the indoor soccer tournament around spring of 1994 or 1995, Sigma Nu was playing the International Students soccer team in the semi-finals of indoor soccer and the international students were leading by two goals to one.  At about 10 minutes to the end of the game, Fisaal, a student from Pakistan was trying to score the third goal for the international students; the sigma Nu’s goalie (nicknamed Lynch) left the ball and gave Fisaal a close line across the neck making him tumble and roll on the floor a couple of times.  The International players were upset and there was great argument on the pitch over the issue.  What did the Kent State student official do about the situation?  He gave both players involved a yellow card and suspended the game for official decision.  This was great injustice because players have been shown a red card for less and the game continued.  The official was just favoring the White team, but we will later find out why.  They later played the remaining 10 minutes without Lynch and Fisaal, and the international students won.   

 

In fall of 1994 or 1995, the two teams met again in the finals of the outdoor soccer.  They came in numerous vehicles like the Ku Klaus Klan did in numerous racial documentaries when they were lynch mobs in pursuit of a Black person.  Then, the international students did not understand what was going on.  They were about at sixty of them.  They came with their girls in vans, trucks, SUVs, and cars.  It was more than a soccer team.  Many international students thought they were just Sigma Nu’s supporters, but they were wrong. 

As the game started, the international students noticed that there was a Black Kent State University Sports official by the name of Middleton Johntay as referee instead of a student employee of the Sports department as usual.  The international students did not care who the referee was, they just wanted to play and win as always.  As the game began, Sigma Nu “supporter” were shouting racial references to the different origins of the players (African, Arab, Indian, & Asian), and they were shouting “vengeance” and “revenge”.   I believe this was a reference to their last defeat by their opponents.  The internationals ignored all these and considered it Sigma Nu’s psychological advantage that would have no effect on their victory.  About a quarter ways into the second half, the internationals scored a goal.  This made the entire Sigma Nu mob mad.  The players started playing rough.  They were kicking, elbowing, and punching their opponents as the game went on.  To the internationals’ surprise, Middleton Johntay did absolutely nothing to call the free kicks.  Soon, one of the Sigma Nu players (I think Scott was his name) who worked for the Daily Kent Stater sports page, ran and kick the internationals goalie for no reason in the leg.  Oman was the goalie from Iraq and he retaliated by kicking Scott back.  It was then that the entire Sigma Nu lynch mob came in, except the girls.  They pounced on the internationals like a plague of locusts.  In the process, one of the African students was punched in the nose by one of the Sigma Nu thug called Joe or Jerry Shambach.   

The police came to the scene and did nothing.  The case was taken to the school’s judiciary affaires and they also did nothing, but told the Sigma Nu members that their actions were not civil.  The Sigma Nu members went free that day and were yelling for victory because they did nothing wrong by White American standard.  The internationals were mere inferior foreigners anyway.  The case was later taken to Portage County Court and the African with the broken nose was awarded $20,000 for damages.  The money has never being paid because Sigma Nu claimed that the statue for the case has passed and that the court did not have the jurisdiction.  It was later discovered that Middleton Johntay was a member or an affiliate of Sigma Nu and one of the school’s judges worked at Daily Kent Stater. 

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