An Arizona State University fraternity mocked Martin Luther King Day by staging a "black party," with attendees wearing basketball jerseys and backwards caps, drinking from watermelon cups, and posing for photos giving gang signs. The administration suspended the fraternity, Tau Kappa Epsilon, and may discipline individual students. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a conservative group, said any discipline would violate the students' free-speech rights.
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