Drop a black ball on him and move on. In this day and age of everyone suing Greeks, I wonder if the Greeks can sue him for false statements and defamation?
A Pi Kappa Alpha pledge, who accused the fraternity of hazing last week, said Monday he lied to police when he was arrested.
“In the course of my arrest, I lied about being hazed and forced to drink alcohol,” said Ry Thomas Mercado, in a letter to The Red & Black, which appears in its entirety on page four….
2 drug raids, five people arrested: three current students, one former student and one non-student.
Daily Aztec
San Diego State University
September 14, 2009
http://www.thedailyaztec.com/city/drugs-found-in-fraternity-1.1875684
Drugs found in fraternity
By Kristina Blake, Senior Staff Writer
Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity has been expelled from San Diego State.
In agreement with SDSU President Stephen L. Weber, SDSU Vice President for Student Affairs, James R. Kitchen, decided to expel the chapter from the campus community following a Chapter Review Panel hearing conducted by Student Affairs on Aug. 20. …
Warren Schor, Brother of Zeta Beta Tau at Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences dies from H1N1.
A Cornell University student died Friday at Cayuga Medical Center from complications relating to H1N1 influenza, according to the Ithaca, N.Y., university.
Warren Schor, a 20-year-old junior, is the first H1N1 influenza-related fatality in Tompkins County, the Health Department said….
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,549565,00.html
Very Sad.
Courtland Smith, a junior biology major from Texas and president of the UNC chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, was shot to death by police early Sunday morning….
He was shot by police in Archdale, about 15 miles south of Greensboro, during a confrontation with an officer.
A news release from the Archdale Police Department states a Caucasian male in his early 20s was shot during a confrontation with police early Sunday morning on Interstate 85.
According to the news release, police stopped the individual’s car after he called officers to say he needed help and was suicidal…..
Omega Delta lost a lot in the fire and other Greeks have stepped up to help.
During finals week of last semester, the Omega Delta fraternity suffered a loss that will never be forgotten by its members.
“Everyone’s room that was near the front of the house lost everything,” said Gerardo Torres, senior English and journalism major and president of Omega Delta
At about 5:40 a.m. on May 6, a fire began to erupt on the roof of the fraternity house at 835 Greenbrier Road
“The fire spread so fast,” said Hugo Jacobo junior political science major. …
and then turns around and sues em. Yeah, these guys are screwed.
Excerpted from onlineathens.com
An insurance underwriter has sued the Sigma Chi fraternity chapter at the University of Georgia in federal court, saying the underwriter should not have to defend the fraternity against a Gainesville woman’s injury lawsuit.
The Liberty Capital Corp., an underwriter of the Sigma Chi insurance policy at Lloyd’s of London, also says the company should not have to pay damages if she wins a separate lawsuit against the UGA fraternity.
The woman is seeking damages from the fraternity in a suit filed three months ago in Clarke Superior Court over injuries she suffered at a party at the frat house last September. The Banner-Herald is withholding her name because UGA police investigated the case as a possible rape, though no charges were filed.
for more – http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/072409/uga_468867885.shtml
Congratulations to Alpha Epsilon Pi .
Excepted The Jerusalem Post
Israel’s first college fraternity opens
The Hebrew state is in for something new on Tuesday: Alpha Epsilon Pi, an international Jewish fraternity, is opening a branch at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya.
It will be the first college fraternity in the State of Israel.
Sorority sister supplies booze for sigma nu fraternity’s pledge initiation. Pledge drinks himself to death. Sister goes to jail.
From abc4.com
LOGAN, Utah (ABC 4 News) – The Utah State University student who admitted giving the alcohol to Michael Starks is going to jail.
For back ground – http://fraternitynews.org/2009/06/sigma-phi-epsilon-at-cal-poly-pomona-suspended-in-hazing-incident/
This week, Sigma Phi Epsilon Headquarters learned about an incident that occurred in March and resulted in the injury of one SigEp member of our California State Polytechnic University-Pomona chapter. In response, our chapter at Cal Poly-Pomona has been suspended until all fraternity and university investigations are complete. At that time, an appropriate and full reaction and remedy will be made.
My notes in red.
From Statesman Journal
Hazing would be barred at schools and universities, and student participants and organizations subject to fines.
Senate Bill 444 passed the Oregon House without change on a 49-0 vote Wednesday.
Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, introduced the bill after a
hazing incident at Western Oregon University, where he works.State university rules ban hazing, but state law exempts athletic teams from the hazing ban WTF!?!?!. The bill would change the law, extend the ban to public schools and update definitions. Hazing covers physical brutality, activity adversely affecting physical health or safety, compelled consumption and inducement of illegal activity.
A student organization would be subject to a maximum fine of $720; a participant, $360.
Fun fact: college sports teams make a lot of money for host institutions. Greeks; not so much.
