Cocaine and Underage Drinking at ZBT Party (U. of Arizona)
 

Arrests were made at a Zeta Beta Tau party near the University of Arizona, according to the student paper. The story points out that ZBT is unrecognized by the university.

The complete article is at

http://wildcat.arizona.edu/papers/98/109/01_2.html

Excerpts from the article:

The president and vice president of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity were arrested on charges of narcotic possession and selling alcohol to minors after police responded to a party at the residence, reports stated.

Zeta Beta Tau president Jared Letzt was arrested for possession of cocaine, and vice president Jake Cohen was arrested for selling alcohol without a liquor license and underage drinking, police reports stated.

University of Arizona Police Department and Tucson Police Department responded to a call Friday night and found a party with more than 400 people at the apartment complex occupied by the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, 1011 N. Tydall Ave., reports stated.

Zeta Beta Tau fraternity is not recognized by the UA Interfraternity Council for violations committed in previous years.

. . . A-Team security officers, who were hired by the fraternity to check identifications and control the crowd, told police they lost control of the crowd. . . .

Funny how they're underground and this chapter continuously gets into trouble, yet they're not eliminated.

-Rudey

geesh...don't they learn anything!!

ZBT apparently allows chapters to exist like this fairly frequently. I could get specific here, but I'd rather not say anything about this particular chapter. That was several years ago, and although I doubt it, they could have their act cleaned up by now (or more than likely, they don't exist anymore).

I do think with insurance rates in the Greek Community skyrocketing because of these types of clowns, we need to not be afraid to really name names when it comes to organizations that turn a blind eye to these kinds of things.

I'm aware of the fact that there are some excellent and even prestigious ZBT chapters around, but is it a regular thing for this organization to still associate itself with chapters that have lost school recognition and continue to have the kinds of problems in the article? This makes two of such cases that I personally know about.

The UofArizona web site has the ZBT chapter listed as having had recognization withdrawn in 1999 and not reinstated.

The ZBT national web site has the chapter listed as being rechartered in May 2003.