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Originally posted by DZHBrown
Can someone help clear this up for me? I understand the Sigma Pi chapter had previous risk management issues, but if they had nothing to do with her consumption of alcohol, were not having a party, etc., why was their chapter closed due to this incident?
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DZHBrown, As I understand it from the announcement Sigma Pi posted on its web site and from recent news stories, the chapter closing was because of the risk management violations, not specifically because of Ms Spday's death.
Now, in a more cynical (or maybe realistic) vein, I'd guess -- but can't prove -- that the international publicity and the general campus conditions (Delta Sigma Phi alleged to have had recent risk management violations; riots; widespread and publicized concerns about the possibility of campus problems stemming from the U of Colorado - Colorado State game) combined to cause Sigma Pi and the university to decide that closing the chapter was a wise course of action.
In addition, I'm rather curious about the language of the "expression of sympathy" on Sigma Pi's web site. It refers to Ms Spady as a "daughter and dear friend." Is it possible that her father is a Sigma Pi? If so, that might have been another (unacknowledged) factor in deciding to close the chapter.
Finally there's the issue of the reports that Ms Spady had been dead for around 12 hours before her body was discovered.
IF anyone in the house knew she was there, and knew that she was seriously impaired in some way, twelve hours without checking on her seems like an awfully long time, and may also have been considered.
We may, of course, never know exactly what happened or the precise combination of reasons for closing the chapter.