Here's the latest:

Associated Press
December 20, 2001

CU students may be suspended in hazing

BOULDER, Colo. --Eight University of Colorado students could be
placed on probation or suspended because of their involvement in an
October sorority event that school officials said was a hazing.

Five students have been charged with violating the university's
prohibition on hazing, officials said Wednesday. Three others face
sanctions for providing alcohol to minors.

Under CU's disciplinary action, the students cited for violating the
university's code of conduct have been asked to report to the Office
of Judicial Affairs to schedule a hearing.

Should those students be found in violation, they could face
penalties ranging from probation to suspension, said Andrea Goldblum,
CU's judicial affairs director.

During the Oct. 30 sorority party, two sorority members were admitted
to Boulder Community Hospital suffering from alcohol poisoning.

One of the students, a 17-year-old who since has withdrawn from CU,
suffered broken teeth and an injured nose. Police could not determine
whether she was punched or fell.

Boulder police detectives cited Kappa Alpha Theta members Cameron
King Reed and her roommate Katherine Elizabeth Koban for supplying
minors with alcohol but didn't pursue hazing charges.

"The reason we didn't do that was that the people involved were
members already," Detective Sgt. Paul Reichenbach said. "It just
didn't fit the statutory requirement for the law."

CU officials, citing federal privacy codes, declined to identify the
students facing charges or to say whether they are members of the
sorority or the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, which also is under
investigation.

Reed said neither she nor Koban have been charged by CU's Office of
Judicial Affairs. Both have denied involvement.

(c) 2001 The Associated Press.

Hey DA...
One thing I have noticed, although the members were Theta's, it appears the fraternities involved should share in the liability....has anything happened to the Phi Delts as a consequence (not individual members, but the chapter as a whole)?

It's a sad scene all around. For a real depressing view of current greek life, take a drive around CSU's greek houses...the number of closed/boarded/renamed houses should be a wake up call not only to CSU (whose members unfortunately have all been "sleeping" through the wakeup calls), but to other campuses as well.

At CSU, since 1995, the following chapters have been closed/suspended, etc....: Alpha Phi, Alpha Tau Omega, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Phi Kappa Tau, Pi Kappa Phi, Lambda Chi Alpha :( , Sigma Kappa, Sigma Nu, Alpha Chi Omega, and Beta Theta Pi. There may have been others that I missed, but these are the ones I recall, and have been involved with the CSU Greek Alumni Council as well....granted, most of the closings were indeed needed due to behavior (or lack thereof), and a few to dwindling membership.

LXA,

I agree that the Phi Taus share a fair amount of responsibility. I see that some of them are being called before the judiciary, but don't know what, if any, action is being taken against the chapter either by the university or their national office.

As for CSU, it really is a sad situation up there. Our chapter has hung in so far, but I worry about them in that climate.

I'm confused, Phi Delts, Phi Taus or FIJI's? I thought the article said Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI)...

Corbin,

You're correct. An "elder moment" on my part. At least one of the fraternities was FIJI (Phi Gamma Delta). As sometimes happens with our friend President Earp, my mind was moving faster than my fingers.

Hey, it's all Greek to me. (Sorry, that was a really sad attempt at humor)

I think I may have read in one of the Denver papers that the Phi Delts might also have been involved, but they don't seem to be a part of the later articles and/or police or university investigation, so perhaps that was incorrectly reported.

Here's the result of the investigation of this situation:

The Associated Press
February 14, 2002

Students linked to hazing won't be suspended

BOULDER, Colo. --The University of Colorado will not suspend 12
students for their involvement in an October sorority event that
school officials said was a hazing.

Instead, the students will enroll in a restorative justice program.
They must accept responsibility and take steps to repair the damage
done to victims or the community.

During the Oct. 30 sorority party, two sorority members were admitted
to Boulder Community Hospital suffering from alcohol poisoning.

One of the students, a 17-year-old who since has withdrawn from CU,
suffered broken teeth and an injured nose. Police could not determine
whether she was punched or fell.

The names of the 12 students have not been released.

The two victims told police they and other pajama-clad freshmen were
given liquor-filled baby bottles and driven around Boulder with
pillow cases over their heads, according to reports.