Update Aug. 31, 2009: Sanctions Reduced
From the site of The Badger, a campus paper serving Wisonsin - Madison:
http://badgerherald.com/news/2009/08...faces_redu.php
Excerpts from longer story"
. . . With the reduced punishment, the fraternity will be on probation until Oct. 16.
The dropped punishment concerned the actions of a pledge at a downtown Madison bar during a fraternity social, according to the university.
According to the university statement, [some of the original]
sanctions . . . were dropped because Sigma Chi successfully showed its due process rights were violated. After the appeal was approved by ODOS, the statement said the Committee on Student Organizations began a review of its own policies. . . .