Entire WVU Frat Suspended For This Dude's "Real World" Audition Tape
Daily Mail – West Virginia University’s Delta Tau Delta fraternity has been suspended indefinitely after a member posted a video online showing him making a string of sexist comments inside a frat house.
The student, Stephen Budkey, made the video as an audition tape for the MTV reality show Real World.
The footage – which he has since deleted from his YouTube page – showed him making lewd comments about women and described parties that broke the fraternity’s rules.
He refers to women as ‘b***hes’ and claims to have had sex behind a dumpster in two clips from the nine-minute video.
Referring to his bedroom, he says: “People on audition tapes are always like, ‘that’s where the magic happens.’ That’s bullsh*t, the magic happens everywhere; behind the dumpster, outside, in a bathroom, in my car, sometimes in my room, you never know. It happens everywhere.”
In a second clip, he adds: “This is my room. I’m sorry guys, it’s a little messy. I’ll be honest with you, my bitches haven’t come to clean it up yet but you know after spring break they’ll be there and it’ll be real tidy.”
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Is this kid a douche and was that video cringeworthy? Yes and yes. But does this really get an ENTIRE fraternity suspended these days? A dude making sexist jokes in a Real World audition video? I mean it’s not like somebody caught him on camera in the middle of a party calling women sluts and whores. It’s supposed to be a comedy-type video. I don’t know, just seems like a real extreme move to respond to one kid saying “bitch” a couple times by suspending the entire frat.
The Intrafraternity Executive Council (IFC) said the video “included a tour of the Delta Tau Delta chapter house while making inappropriate comments toward women, describing social functions that violate the conduct code of the IFC, and referencing activities that violated and are contradicting to the values of the national fraternity.”
The statement said the council was “saddened that any member of the fraternity or sorority community would represent their organization and the University in this highly inappropriate manner.”
“This video simply does not represent the values that all fraternity men and sorority women agree to uphold when they accept membership in one of our organizations.’ the statement continued. ‘The Interfraternity Council firmly will not tolerate this or any type of unacceptable behavior from fraternity members at West Virginia University.”
Don’t get me wrong, defending this dude and that video I just watched is definitely not a hill I’m going to die on. But suspending entire organizations for one person making sex jokes in a “funny” video is a pretty slippery slope.