No Nupe Left Behind Internet Policy

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY AS OF:  Saturday, August 20, 2005 12:02 p.m. EDT

RATIONALE: This policy is to protect all individual Brothers and their families or affiliates from the threat or loss of physical, emotional, intellectual, and/or spiritual quality of life from the actual or potential illegal activities of other Brothers and their respective agents, affiliates, or those who may directly or indirectly influenced by them online or offline.

Any electronic communication is forbidden that is created on, distributed or transmitted through, broadcast on, received through the internet that does or seeks to conduct or initiate any of the following against another legitimate Brother that:

• Violates the Executive Orders 1, 2, and 3 of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.,

• creates online and/or offline forms of hazing,

• creates physical or emotional abuse,

• derides, castigates, slanders, libels, defames the character of another Brother,

• threatens, minimizes, reduces, eliminates the opportunity, value, and quality of legitimate membership of another Brother,

• lessens the personal influence or corporate influence of any organization or body where that targeted, legitimate Brother has been, is, or shall have significant influence through his involvement, membership, government, shares owned, and control of its operations,

• jeopardizes, threatens, increases the risk of physical and/or emotional loss, or lowers the physical safety of another Brother, his family, and/or affiliates,

• recommends the inactivity and/or lack of participation of Fraternity membership,

• directly or indirectly encourages the refusal of the online or offline presence and/or membership for officially recognized, lawful, legal, and otherwise commonly accepted practices,

• distinguishes, sets apart, ostracizes, isolates, expels, suspends, targets and identifies a legitimate Brother to be the aim of not receiving the extension of common courtesies extended to other legitimate Brothers; and

• diminishes the desire, want, opportunity to either identify oneself offline as an official and legitimate member or be willingly and consentually recognized offline as a legitimate member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. versus as an officer, committee chair, task force leader, committee member, or as a member of a group of two or more Brothers of a voted, elected, selected, appointed, commissioned, chartered, or nominated official entity of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. or its subsidiaries or affiliates thereof.

Furthermore, no electronic communication shall provide the rationale, opportunity, need, want, demand, and/or desire for an identifiable Brother to be the aim of a direct, indirect, or potentially greater violation of this Internet Policy before such electronic communication was distributed, while being transmitted or broadcast, and/or after such electronic communication was received by another Brother or made available for public or private online or offline consumption.

All such forbidden electronic communication (that is directly or indirectly received, sent as a reply to, forwarded as part of a thread or conversation of another message, carbon copied, blind copied, posted or printable with an identifiable URL of the server where it appeared or currently appears) should be immediately sent, forwarded, and/or brought to the attention of No Nupe Left Behind for further transmittal to the International Headquarters of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. and other appropriate authorities and agencies online and/or offline to seek any or all legal means and avenues of recourse, remedy, resolution, award for damages, and/or disposition.