Sigma Kappa and Cal State-Chico have temporarily suspended the Chico chapter of Sigma Kappa, according to a local news site. An alleged alcohol poisoning incident is the cause, as reported:
http://www.chicoer.com/news/oroville/ci_11753789
Excerpts:
A Chico State University student is in fair condition at Enloe Medical Center after suffering alcohol poisoning Thursday during a function police said was a Sigma Kappa sorority ceremony.
Hospital officials said Bethany G. Dixon, 18, improved on Friday and upgraded her condition from serious.
. . . the young woman was found by friends, including some sorority sisters, in a highly intoxicated state and taken to an address in the 600 block of West Fourth Street.
Her condition deteriorated, and friends called 9-1-1 at 11:50 p.m.
Police found her unconscious and she was rushed to the hospital by ambulance.
Dixon is reportedly a sorority pledge. In an interview with Chico police Friday, Dixon said she was attending a pinning party for Sigma Kappa, and said it was being held at a location across the street from the sorority house on West Fourth.
. . . Police said others interviewed in the incident corroborated Dixon's story.
. . . pending further investigation the sorority's national organization, and the university, have suspended Sigma Kappa.
A criminal investigation . . . has been started in an attempt to locate the hosts of the party, and anyone who may have supplied the underage woman
with alcohol. . . .
Here's hoping Ms Dixon's condition continues to improve.
As alert medium- and long-term GreekChat readers know, in the last few years CSU-Chico has had a more or less steady avalanche of bad news about risk management / behavior problems in its fraternities and sororities. Sometimes it appears, for several months or for an academic term, that things have changed; then boom! more unfortunate news.
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