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Associated Press
December 7, 2001

Sorority sisters ticketed after students suffer alcohol poisoning

BOULDER, Colo. -- Two sorority sisters have been ticketed for
providing alcohol to a minor the night of a sorority function that
left two University of Colorado students hospitalized with alcohol
poisoning.

Katherine E. Koban and Cameron K. Reed, both 19, were issued
summonses for the municipal charge, said Boulder police Sgt. Paul
Reichenbach. The women are members of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.

Police said there is not enough evidence to pursue hazing charges in
connection with the sorority event. However, the function has spawned
a hazing inquiry by CU officials and the indefinite suspension of the
Kappa Alpha Theta sorority's CU chapter.

Reichenbach said about 25 newly-initiated Kappa Alpha Theta members
gathered Oct. 29 at a field on campus for a party organized by
sophomores in the sorority. The group drove to three locations,
eventually ending up at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. Sorority
members consumed alcohol at each location.

After the party, two women were taken to the emergency room at
Boulder Community Hospital with alcohol poisoning.

One victim, a 17-year-old, may have been assaulted after arriving
blindfolded at the fraternity's house and drinking 11 alcoholic
beverages.

Reichenbach said the incident does not meet the criteria in
Colorado's statute on hazing because the women were already members
of the sorority.

He said the university was conducting its own investigation and may
take disciplinary action.

The Phi Gamma Delta fraternity has also launched an investigation
into its CU chapter.

(c) 2001 The Associated Press.