...or, "Dude, Where's my House?"
Phi Kappa Tau at Colorado was suspended after two women tested positive for a "date-rape" drug after attending a party at their house.
It's been a tumultuous few weeks for approximately 72 Phi Kappa Tau members and 24 Phi Kappa Tau pledges at CU-Boulder since a party at the house held on Sept. 23.
The cherry on top came Sunday, when the fraternity members were informed the Boulder chapter of Phi Kappa Tau was being suspended at least until the end of the academic year.
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The Boulder Police Department began investigations into the fraternities of Sigma Pi and Phi Kappa Tau after nine women were sent to the hospital for suspicion of alcohol poisoning during the morning hours of Sept. 24. Some of the women had attended parties at one or both of the fraternities the night before.
Recently, Boulder police reported two of the women tested positive for traces of gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB), a common ”date-rape“ drug, but it is still unknown where the women ingested the drugs. The women have not yet been identified, nor have they contacted the media in regard to the events of that evening.
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Officials from the national office said Monday a series of events over the past 18 to 24 months contributed to the decision to close the chapter and move the members out of the fraternity house, not only the party a couple of weeks ago.
Still, Egan said the national office was quick to make judgments.
”I think the main reason is media attention,“ he said. ”We got negative media attention again and they don't want that. That was the final strand.“
Phi Kappa Tau officials said the fraternity is being shut down because the Boulder chapter was not following the fraternity's mission or representing its values and principles.
Egan said the fraternity did everything they were supposed to before holding the recent party.
”We went through all of the necessary steps to get off social probation in order to throw that party,“ he said.
Egan said the fraternity had been on social probation previously for holding the same party the year before, which involved underage drinking.
To end the probation, he said fraternity members performed community service, attended a ”Building Men of Character“ retreat weekend, a program through Phi Kappa Tau's national fraternity to teach member's the fraternity's values, and several meetings.
”It was a pain,“ said Egan. ”Half the guys that lived out of the house wouldn't come up, so it kind of turned into the guys that cared were still here and those are most of the guys that are affected by this.“
Translation: "We did the legalistic minimum to get people off our backside. Now we are whining because we couldn't get away with it again".
"Is there no justice?" (Is there no accountability?)
"It's not my fault." (It's your responsibility.)
