Your favorite sorority president, preserved forever in wax!
If you are a remorseless nerd and read The Chronicle of Higher Education, you might have stumbled across some hot sorority gossip on The Ol’ Chronicle Ticker. Barbara McKinzie, national president of Alpha Kappa Alpha, has some very special needs, according to the Chicago Sun-Times:
Members of a prominent Chicago-based sorority are suing to oust their national president — former Chicago Housing Authority comptroller Barbara McKinzie — saying she misappropriated funds and commissioned a $900,000 wax figure of herself.
A $900,000 wax figurine of herself? To be used as a surrogate during video conferences? Or something sexy to spoon with at night? Wrong wrong WRONG!
The wax figure of McKinzie is being prepped at the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore …
My! Modest, are we?
Don’t listen to your critics, Ms. McKinzie. Spending 900,000 embezzled dollars on a wax replica of yourself was the obvious and right thing to do.
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I don’t know what all the fuss is about – I’ve been commissioning annual wax figurines of myself since childhood. So that future generations can admire me at every age. Obviously.
It’s only $900,000 for a big ball of wax that looks like her. No big deal. She could’ve also taken $400,000 for personal expenses and used the credit card points to buy a 46 inch plasma TV and a personal gym.
Oh wait, she did that too…
Does she cry out in pain if we stick pins in her wax effigy?
This is why I never joined a sorority. Wax? Honey, if you’re going to embezzle, go for the bronze statue. Why steal to end up in Madame Tussaud’s?
Hold up, this is MY sorority – and my sister’s and my mother’s and my cousins. So I’m not gonna let you all talk the Oldest African American Sorority. So here’s the other side.
Two wax statues at the heart of a dispute swirling through the nation’s oldest African-American sorority are sitting in a Baltimore museum – and they apparently cost nowhere near as much as the outlandish sums cited by critics alleging malfeasance by organization leaders. read more at http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bal-md.wax01aug01,0,4663430.story
Well, this finally explains why all the pretty AKAs that I tried to holla at in college, would be all stiff and unresponsive when I would approach them.
Never knew sororities could amass millions … That’s a nice chunk of money no one is watching very carefully. Why isn’t this nut case in jail? Aren’t there laws against such abuse of trust? Imagine: instead of two wax statues (weird), how many grants and scholarships could have been awarded?