100 Students Arrested - which fraternity is involved?

[jon1856]

Front page of campus newspaper:
http://www.thedailyaztec.com/

Cartel connection uncovered in SDSU bust
http://media.www.thedailyaztec.com/m...-3366789.shtml

[49erFounderPKT]

Besides Theta Chi, the other suspended fraternities are Lambda Chi Alpha, Phi Kappa Psi, Phi Kappa Theta, Sigma Alpha Epsilon and Sigma Alpha Mu.

• Story Highlights
• 96 people, including 75 students, arrested in San Diego drug sweep
• Police say some fraternity members openly dealt drugs, text-messaged customers
• 2 kilograms of cocaine, Ecstasy, marijuana, meth, guns seized in raids
• One arrested student was about to get degree in criminal justice

Just got a e-mail about this from ireport.com

IT really is a shame that this is going to be so tangled up in greek life. My thoughts go out to all those involved.

[CBU Jeff]

My question is that if some of the 6 fraternities that are on temporary probation are not proved guilty, how are they to return to regular operations without scrutiny?

Also, I question the point in which it turns to an individual issue, not chapter-wide.

I noticed, through several posts, that approx. 75 were arrested. IF its only a one or two per people from a certain chapter, how would the school handle the chapter?

At any rate, I'm sure the drug problem there is much bigger that what it appears even after the bust.

[jon1856]

Originally Posted by CBU Jeff

My question is that if some of the 6 fraternities that are on temporary probation are not proved guilty, how are they to return to regular operations without scrutiny?

Also, I question the point in which it turns to an individual issue, not chapter-wide.

I noticed, through several posts, that approx. 75 were arrested. IF its only a one or two per people from a certain chapter, how would the school handle the chapter?

At any rate, I'm sure the drug problem there is much bigger that what it appears even after the bust.

From the msn story above:
"At least 75 people arrested during the five-month sting were San Diego State students, and 13 of them were from seven fraternities. All together, there were 128 arrests, 61 on Tuesday. Theta Chi had the highest number of students arrested, with five."
Theta Chi is the chapter that the offices "bang on" during the press conferences IIRC.

[CBU Jeff]

Not being bias lol, but below is a statement from SAE Nationals:


Statement on Chapter at San Diego State

EVANSTON, IL – Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s national headquarters has been monitoring the situation that took place on San Diego State University’s campus, as the organization was one of six fraternities suspended by university officials.

As a result of its investigation, the Drug Enforcement Agency provided names of three students to the university who were allegedly members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. However, two of the men are not members. They are former pledges who broke their affiliation with SAE previous to this incident.

The third student, an active member, was interviewed by police for an unrelated matter prior to this incident. They released him without charges. In fact, no charges have been filed against any of Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s members. Law-enforcement officials did not search the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house.

A group of alumni advisers are working with chapter members to ensure operations remain in compliance with national guidelines. And both undergraduate and alumni members will continue to cooperate with both university and law-enforcement officials.


At any rate, bad publicity never leaves you.

[Coramoor]

Like this kind of thing isn't going on across just about every campus in the nation. Greeks, Sports Teams, Student Clubs, etc.

Unless you are completely obvious to your surroundings, we all know who is doing/selling drugs.

[jon1856]

Originally Posted by CBU Jeff

Not being bias lol, but below is a statement from SAE Nationals:


Statement on Chapter at San Diego State

EVANSTON, IL – Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s national headquarters has been monitoring the situation that took place on San Diego State University’s campus, as the organization was one of six fraternities suspended by university officials.

As a result of its investigation, the Drug Enforcement Agency provided names of three students to the university who were allegedly members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. However, two of the men are not members. They are former pledges who broke their affiliation with SAE previous to this incident.

The third student, an active member, was interviewed by police for an unrelated matter prior to this incident. They released him without charges. In fact, no charges have been filed against any of Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s members. Law-enforcement officials did not search the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house.

A group of alumni advisers are working with chapter members to ensure operations remain in compliance with national guidelines. And both undergraduate and alumni members will continue to cooperate with both university and law-enforcement officials.


At any rate, bad publicity never leaves you.

Thanks for the up-date Brother. I had been looking forward to a statement as well.

This seems to show a rather wide, shot-gun/net that both LO and school threw out.
Not necessarily a bad thing. However, just as you pointed out, the publicity will linger and I do not have a good feeling about any of this showing up on the front pages.
Hope to run into you on SAE's GC sometime. PDA???

[SoCalGirl]

http://advancement.sdsu.edu/marcomm/information/

The school is claiming only 33 of the the original 96 are students.

That investigation, led by the SDSU Police, culminated in yesterday's arrests. To date, 33 students have been arrested; each of those students has been suspended. We believe we have arrested the majority of those involved.

[sdsuchelle]

There are like 30,000 students at SDSU and:

"To date, 33 students have been arrested; each of those students has been suspended. We believe we have arrested the majority of those involved."

..... they have got to be kidding, hahaha.

[jon1856]

Originally Posted by sdsuchelle

There are like 30,000 students at SDSU and:

"To date, 33 students have been arrested; each of those students has been suspended. We believe we have arrested the majority of those involved."

..... they have got to be kidding, hahaha.

Talk about taking things out of context.
Without looking up the speaker, I would say that they were directly referring to this matter, this case, this operation.
And nothing else.

[sdsuchelle]

Originally Posted by jon1856

Talk about taking things out of context.
Without looking up the speaker, I would say that they were directly referring to this matter, this case, this operation.
And nothing else.

OMG I swear you people will argue/freak out about anything.

My point = SDSU shouldn't start acting like they've completely eliminated the problem by running this operation. Obviously its commendable and good that they arrested this amount of people but the problem is so much bigger, not only at the school but in the entire city.

[jon1856]

Originally Posted by sdsuchelle

OMG I swear you people will argue/freak out about anything.

My point = SDSU shouldn't start acting like they've completely eliminated the problem by running this operation. Obviously its commendable and good that they arrested this amount of people but the problem is so much bigger, not only at the school but in the entire city.

Perhaps you should have posted this first
I do agree with this posting.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by SoCalGirl

http://advancement.sdsu.edu/marcomm/information/

The school is claiming only 33 of the the original 96 are students.

Who were the others? Random townies? Alums? People from other schools?

[Senusret I]

They're obviously not kidding.

[Kevin]

Please remember not to post any rumors here. Just the facts.