No, MHQ sent a lawyer out to talk to the chapter, and look over the situation. His opinion, and he was quite frank, and with the caveat that the actives told the truth,(and by most accounts it seems they did) was that this was definitely not a hazing event.
MHQ has not suspended the chapter. After we fight it out the university over the due process issues that were frankly ignored by the university (something the MHQ lawyer assured us would happen). And we have no idea how far we can afford to fight, since we are a relatively young chapter. The majority of our alumni are in their early 30s to mid 20s, starting careers, marriages and families. My guess is that without outside financial/lawyer help, the chapter will wind up booted from the University and at that point surrender the charter back to MHQ.
Who knows, of our couple hundred, only a handful are lawyers at this time, and even fewer of them are still local to the area.
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