The Office of Student Conduct is conducting an investigation into an incident that occurred at the Kappa Sigma fraternity house early Sunday morning when a nonstudent was injured after he fell off a fire escape.Another student at the location was referred for underage alcohol possession, but the executive director of the national fraternity, Mic Wilson, said more details of the incident would not be released until the investigation was complete.”There is an investigation going on,” Wilson said. “We are cooperating with University officials in addressing that.”Wilson said since there weren’t more specifics about the incident, it wasn’t clear if there would be ramifications for the chapter.”We have to really look and find out what occurred and find out if [the chapter] will be sanctioned,” Wilson said. “All of that will have to come after the details are reported from the investigative reports.”Associate Director of Greek Life Shelly Dobek said Greek Life is not involved in the investigation, which is being conducted by Student Conduct.”We received notification from the headquarters that there is an investigation into what happened that evening,” Dobek said. “All we know is that a campus appearance ticket was issued to the organization and that Student Conduct will be following up to find out whether the chapter was in any way responsible for what happened.”Dobek said it wasn’t evident yet whether Kappa Sigma, which has won the Face Award two years in a row, was to blame for the incident. The award recognizes outstanding chapter management, achievement, and program development in all areas of operation”It hasn’t been determined if what happend was any fault of the organization,” Dobek said. “Sometimes accidents just happen and nobody really did anything malicious to cause that to happen. Other times chapters may have made poor decisions and if they did that there will be some accountability for those decisions–that hasnt been determined yet and that’s why they’re conducting these investigations.”Dobek said it could be a mattter of days or weeks before the investigation is concluded.Wilson said the incident and investigation will not impact the fraternity’s recruitment campaign this fall.”The chapter will be participating in rush activities for the fall semester,” Wilson said.
Fire escape injury at fraternity house being investigated
August 19, 2009