Update: Students Will Not Be Forced to Move Out of House
See article on local paper's site:
http://www.centredaily.com/116/story/1142716.html
Excerpts from longer article:
Brothers of the disbanded Penn State chapter of Beta Theta Pi will not be forced to move out of their house by March 7, said attorney Kathleen Yurchak.
. . . In response, Yurchak sent a letter to Wilhelm on Monday, which said the alumni board’s threat to close the house and terminate the lease of the occupants through e-mail is “unconscionable, illegal and unenforceable” under the Landlord Tenant Act and Pennsylvania Consumer Protection laws.
The alumni board’s lawyer, Julia Cronin, responded to Yurchak’s letter Wednesday.
“While we hope that all tenants abide by the landlord’s request that they vacate by March 7, 2009, self help eviction will not occur,” Cronin wrote in an e-mail.
The lease signed by each brother specifies that the landlord “does not have the right to throw tenant out of the leased premises (self-help eviction). The landlord can only evict by court action.”
No eviction notices have been filed with any court, Yurchak said. She argued that, in order to evict the brothers, the alumni board would have to prove that each person violated his individual lease.
“I don’t think there’s enough evidence,” Yurchak said. “They haven’t done enough to get thrown out of their home.” . . .
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