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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 23:11:53 -0800
From: Fraternity/Sorority Newsclips <doug.case@sdsu.edu>
Subject: CU sorority suspended after alleged hazing

The Associated Press
November 20, 2001

CU sorority suspended after alleged hazing

BOULDER, Colo. -- The Kappa Alpha Theta sorority has suspended its University of Colorado chapter because of an alleged hazing incident last month that left two pledges hospitalized with alcohol poisoning.

The length of the suspension was not set but the sorority's national leaders have ordered the Boulder chapter to cancel all social events for the remainder of the school year and host hazing-awareness seminars. The chapter may be reinstated after it meets several requirements, said Liz Rinck, Kappa Alpha Theta's communications director.

One of those conditions is that all sorority officers involved in the
Oct. 30 initiation resign their positions. Rinck said the national
office is still trying to determine who participated.

Boulder police Sgt. Kurt Weiler said detectives also are
investigating. Under Colorado law, hazing is a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail.

A 17-year-old Kappa Alpha Theta pledge told police she was
blindfolded and taken to a fraternity house where she downed 11 alcoholic beverages off a list of 14 she was expected to drink.

CU police found the girl on campus with injuries to her face, either
the result of an assault or a fall. Officers took her to Boulder
Community Hospital, where tests revealed she had a blood-alcohol level of .202, more than four times Colorado's legal limit for driving.

Neither university officials nor police have released details of the
second pledge, who was also hospitalized that night for alcohol
poisoning.

University officials said they would wait for a police report before
deciding what to do about students who participated in the initiation.

(c) 2001 The Associated Press.