Mississippi State U: Investigation of Alleged Alcohol Violations (Kappa Sigma)

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Update: Chapter Will Appeal Charter Revocation

See: http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=3684

Excerpts from article:

. . . Mississippi State’s Kappa Sigma chapter has submitted a request to appeal the charter revocation. The revocation will be placed on the agenda for the Supreme Executive Committee’s January meeting in Los Angeles, . . . .

The meeting and presentation will take place the weekend of Jan. 30, 2010, he said. The MSU chapter could appeal the revocation or request a lesser sanction. . . .



Update Feb. 16, 2010

See full article at

http://www.starkvilledailynews.com/c...iew/200137/60/

Excerpts from article:

. . . Mississippi State fraternity that saw its national charter revoked back in the fall could [see]their chapter re-established as early as the 2010 fall semester.

Undergraduate and alumni members from MSU’s former Kappa Sigma chapter appealed to the national fraternity’s Supreme Executive Committee — its board of directors — at its winter meeting Jan. 30 in Los Angeles, Calif., and the Committee decided to conduct a membership review sometime this spring, said Mic Wilson, the fraternity’s national executive director, in a statement Monday.

The MSU Kappa Sigma chapter saw its charter revoked on Oct. 9, 2009, by members of the fraternity’s national staff in the aftermath of a university probe stemming from a September 2009 incident at the fraternity’s chapter house in which members admitted to violating campus alcohol policies.
MSU officials placed the fraternity on probation for the remainder of the current academic year and required its 100 members to meet several terms in order to remain sanctioned as a student organization. *

After conducting their own investigation, Kappa Sigma’s national officers, however, imposed the harsher penalty of revoking the chapter’s charter, granting the MSU members 30 days to appeal the decision, which they did in early November.

With the membership review, Wilson said a team of volunteer officers from various positions and geographical locations within the fraternity will make a visit to the Mississippi State campus “in the near future” to evaluate whether the MSU members should be allowed re-colonize . . . .