Sigma Chi Suspended Indefinitely at Nebraska - Lincoln: Underage Alcohol

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U of Nebraska – Lincoln: Sigma Chi suspended indefinitely; see:

http://www.omaha.com/article/2012101...710139929/1685

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“Published Saturday, October 13, 2012 at 1:00 am / Updated at 1:30 am

Sigma Chi frat suspended indefinitely at UNL after party
By Leslie Reed

WORLD-HERALD BUREAU
LINCOLN — The Sigma Chi fraternity has been suspended indefinitely at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln after authorities learned of an off-campus party in which fraternity members allegedly provided alcohol to minors, officials said Friday.

Three fraternity members were ticketed on suspicion of misdemeanor procuring charges.

The party occurred less than two weeks after Sigma Chi members returned to their chapter house following a three-year suspension resulting from an infamous 2008 hazing incident.

J. Steve Davis, a spokesman for the fraternity's alumni advisory council, described the latest suspension as “a death sentence” for Sigma Chi on the UNL campus.

“We are both surprised and devastated by the citation, given the zero tolerance terms we agreed to — and consistently communicated to our undergraduates — under the terms of our prior probation,” he said.
“The fact is that 130 years of Sigma Chi presence, and the overwhelming good that has come from it, now ends as a result of these new prohibitive sanctions from the university.”

During the prior suspension, the fraternity spent $2.5 million to update the chapter house, “making it one of the most desirable modern student housing options at UNL,” Davis said.

Pledges and fraternity members returned to the chapter house this semester, which began Aug. 20, after UNL agreed to lift the final year of a four-year suspension arising from the 2008 incident. . . .”