[coastalpike]

It is true that we were suspended for 7 years today. However, the suspension had nothing to do with the 2 students going to the hospital.

According to school officials the fraternity has now been expelled for hazing. They have not released any details to us but from what we have heard 2 women at the party say that they saw a couple of brothers tell a couple of pledges to drink.

The school interviewed all of the pledges involved including the 2 that were hospitalized and every single one of them told the school that they were never forced to do anything and certainly were not hazed at the bid day event.

The so-called review board was made up of 2 members of other campus fraternities, 2 advisors to other campus fraternities, the school spokesman, and the dean of students.

I am an alumnus of this chapter and here is my honest opinion about this matter. After the school saw the media take hold of this situation, they realized that they would have to take some kind of action in order to show that the school does not condone this behavior (use us as an example). When the school realized that everything that we were originally charged with was not as it seemed, they looked for anything they possibly could that would be considered against school policy. In came statements from 2 random women saying they saw brothers telling pledges to drinnk and wham, kicked off for 7 years.

Our fraternity has been on campus for 9 years and has never had one sanction placed on it. I feel it is ridiculous that we have been kicked off for 7 years for the first sanction ever placed on us. Especially when all of the pledges who were so-called hazed, testified to the same board that they were not hazed. Correct me if I am wrong but if all of the so-called victims of hazing all said that they in fact were not, how could the school charge us for that?

Anyways, they will be submitting their appeal tommorow morning. I will let you know when I know more. I will also answer any questions now that the investigation is over.