), First published on March 23, 2022 / 7:34 PM. MORGANTOWN, W.Va. West Virginia Universityhas suspended one fraternity and reprimanded three others after recent investigations of hazing allegations and fights. Sigma Chi. Be on guard! the Tuesday, April 13 post warned. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. Sigma Chi International indefinitely suspends UI fraternity chapter for It opens: The phrase, Lets agree to disagree without being disagreeable comes to mind in this particular moment. After the party, as part of a what the fraternity described as a team-building exercise, the 19 pledges were dropped off in South Park and told to find their way back to the fraternity house. March 23, 2022 West Virginia University suspended one fraternity for hazing and sanctioned three others after violations to the student conduct code, the university announced Tuesday. 4 West Virginia Fraternities Make Trouble - Inside Higher Ed Also last week, the Inter-fraternity Council and WVU suspended Sigma Chi. Here are some examples: Sigma Chi was one of the first fraternities to begin aggressively attacking the hazing culture in fraternity life and has been aggressively battling it for more than four decades. The Knowns and Unknowns of the WV Senate Race, The EPA Prepares To Go After Fossil Fuel Power Plants Again. Further investigation has resulted in hazing citations against the six members of the fraternity who dropped the students off in South Park. After drinking at a nightclub reserved by Sigma Chi, nineteen underage pledges were dropped off in another neighborhood and told to work as a group to get back to the fraternity house. In 2018, the University took various steps to combat hazing incidents that had started to plague the university and had culminated in a lawsuit after one student reported the hazing had physically injured him. "Considering the recent events, the brothers of Beta Theta Pi believe the suspension of Greek activities was necessary to maintain the safety and security for West Virginia University students and the surrounding community," Beta president Ricky Schultz told the Daily Athenaeum last week. Rather than including students and community partners in the process of creating the much-needed culture change that would bring about the mutually desired end of a renewed focus to fostering a healthy, safe and impactful fraternity experience in Morgantown, it ended up as an unnecessarily paternalistic, arbitrary and capricious approach. WVU frat suspended for hazing, fighting | WOWK 13 News Phi Kappa Psi and Sigma Nu also received disciplinary reprimands. The fraternity's international headquarters also removed its recognition of the local chapter, WVU said.
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