Lastword - Black Greek Deathwatch: After the hand-wringing over a hazing death comes a period of reckless behavior leading to yet another death. Will we stop the cycle?A little more than 20 years ago, during the third week of October, as I returned to my apartment my neighbor said, 'Kimbrough, one of the Alphas is dead!' Panicking, I hurriedly turned on the television and began making phone calls. I thought he meant a brother in my chapter. However, the deceased turned out to be Morehouse College student Joel Harris, who was pre-pledging Alpha Phi Alpha without the approval of the fraternity or the college. His heart condition could not take what he witnessed; his line brothers being beaten at an off-campus apartment.
