On July 26, the brothers of the Alpha Delta fraternity at Dartmouth College, in cooperation with the ladies of the Delta Delta Delta sorority, hosted a themed costume party for their collective members, and we all know by now that this is only news if something really stupid happened. Sure enough, in 2013, the theme of the party was “Bloods and Crips,” and all of the men and women in attendance dressed like they were gang members.

SMDH, people. S my DH.

Naturally, people at Dartmouth were not too pleased with this theme once word got out that it went down, and the folks behind Dartblog, “Dartmouth’s Most Influential Daily,” immediately started reaching out to people to find out exactly what happened. According to an email from a Dartmouth student, who didn’t specify if he or she attended, it wasn’t pretty.

I work very closely with OPAL as an intern with the Office of Black Student Advising. We’ve received word that two weekends ago, Tri-Delta Sorority and Alpha Delta hosted a Bloods and Crips Party at AD. Individuals mingled for hours while dressed as bloods or crips while using racialized language. It then turned into a “ghetto party” with racialized language, speech and dress. Over 200 individuals attended this event.

That email, according to Dartblog, was being circulated by the NAACP, which also issued its own official statement and call to action, asking students to report this party as a “bias incident” through the school’s website.

You can report anonymously, but names will make the report more personal, more powerful. It takes 5 minutes and will make a powerful statement about this demeaning, degrading and outrageous event. We are asking everyone to flood the bias incident account with our call for justice, right now. Today we are dealing with a “ghetto” party, tomorrow it will be a Native American party, and soon after a Latino party. Students of Color are not respected on this campus, and enough is enough. The College has yet to deliver consequences to the aforementioned organizations, so we have to declare their lack of response as not only unacceptable but as disregard for our experiences.

Meanwhile, a representative of the Dartmouth Tri Delt chapter issued this statement:

We would like to extend our sincerest apology to the Dartmouth community and all those offended by the inappropriately themed recent event in which some of our members participated. We will be working with the college and Tri Delta Executive Office in order to continue to educate our members regarding cultural sensitivity and awareness.

And the Alpha Deltas were a little more elaborate with their response to the Dartblog’s request for comment: