UNC rugby, baseball players feud with DX

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UNC rugby, baseball players feud with frat
Story By Mike Peters
Posted on Thursday, October 10 @ 03:08:44 EDT (338 reads)
Twelve University of Northern Colorado students may face disciplinary action after two fights in the past week among members of the Delta Chi fraternity, the UNC baseball team and the school’s rugby club.

The feud reportedly is about girls; although, neither UNC officials nor Delta Chi members would confirm it. Police initially were called to the fraternity, 1903 10th Ave., at 1:45 a.m. Saturday, Greeley police spokesman Sgt. John Gates said. A large fight was reported then.
No one was arrested at that fight, Gates said. One student was injured when he apparently cut his hand when he fell on a broken beer bottle. Another suffered a broken nose in a fight, according to some students who were there.

Gates said all the people involved refused to press charges against the others who were fighting.

Information of the injuries to the students apparently was misinterpreted, because the students involved in the initial fight thought the student had been cut by someone with a knife.

That false information may have led to the second confrontation early Wednesday morning.

Grant Harrell, president of Delta Chi, said he doesn’t know why baseball and rugby players are angry with the fraternity, but several of them showed up on the fraternity house lawn at 12:15 a.m. Wednesday.

“There were about 25 of them out front,” Harrell said, “and another 15 waiting around the corner to jump us if we came out of the house. We stopped the whole thing without a fight when we called the police.”

Greeley police responded and some summonses were issued. The police report on the incident was not completed Wednesday. The names of those issued summonses were not available.

However, the names of 12 students — some of them baseball and rugby players — were given to Dean of Students Jean Schober Morrell.

“We don’t know much of what happened,” Morrell said Wednesday, “but we are investigating the students for possible violations of the code of student conduct.”

Morrell would not release the students’ names.

UNC baseball coach Kevin Smallcomb described the incident as “just a shouting match.”