Public Safety Director Jeff Troxell also declined to comment on the incident, noting only that the investigation is ongoing. “Undoubted, as explained by Mr. Beeler, they were speeding, they just don’t believe they were driving as fast as the police claimed.”, Durham’s letter to the fraternity also states that during the hearing, a student representative “admitted to some of the behaviors and his presence at some of the events.”, The fraternity was also accused of retaliating against the members who cooperated with the university’s probe. “(Delta Upsilon) has been held accountable multiple times,” she wrote, “but has demonstrated little interest in changing its behaviors.”. Non-Secret • Non-Hazing • Non-Sectarian // Florida Chapter of Delta Upsilon Justin Kirk, executive director of Delta Upsilon International Fraternity, said in a statement that after the hazing allegations, “Delta Upsilon International Fraternity worked in close partnership with the University of Kansas and alumni advisors to address concerns, enhance accountability and provide education to the chapter on a number of areas related to university and Fraternity policy. In 1915 the Harvard chapter stopped paying dues to the fraternity. Beeler likened the situation to being pulled over for speeding – for going 90 miles per hour in a 65 mph zone,” the letter said. Rather, she said, “there is an ongoing conversation with Student Affairs leadership and with an organization’s national headquarters” about patterns of misconduct. Documents requested by the Journal-World concerning the University of Kansas’ investigation into Delta Upsilon were heavily redacted. Kirk added that no details regarding the allegation or its nature have been provided to the chapter or the International Fraternity as of Thursday morning. To find out more about the fraternity’s history, the Journal-World reached out to 10 alumni of the KU chapter of Delta Upsilon. We take pride in our new member class and expect them to have proper respect for the brotherhood and the Fraternity without having to use humiliation. One of them graduated in the spring of 2017, before the allegations that prompted the university investigation, but he said he thought there were likely three to four “bad apples” who “really poisoned the whole thing.”. Open revolt came when the international fraternity tried to impose discipline on Harvard. “Particularly in cases with robust information — such as multiple victim statements, photo and video evidence, etc. An incident of hazing was reported in the crime log at Delta Upsilon (DU) last Thursday, November 7, though the date of the incident was reported as unknown. The official Facebook page for Alumni of the Purdue Chapter of Delta Upsilon If the allegations are confirmed through the Public Safety investigation, the case will then be referred to the student conduct office. Delta Upsilon was the first fraternity to have its investigation since the bylaw change that transferred responsibility for such cases from the IFC to MIT. The documents detailing the hazing investigation are heavily redacted, with several entire pages cloaked by black and gray boxes. Our old commenting system has been replaced with Facebook Comments. • In May of 2017, Delta Upsilon was found responsible for: “damaging another fraternity house; withdrawing from all the expected governance practices and expectations of the Interfraternity Council; misappropriating philanthropy money to pay for t-shirts; and drawing their Greek letters in cocaine at the chapter’s Spring Break house.” The chapter was placed on probation for two years, during which it would be “restricted from various university activities, prohibited from having alcohol in the chapter house and any social events, and made to participate in a variety of educational programs.”, • In March of 2018, Delta Upsilon’s probation was extended for a year after the chapter was found responsible for tying “a highly intoxicated member to the neighboring Delta Gamma sorority house’s decorative anchor.”. We take pride in our new member class and expect them to have proper respect for our brotherhood and the Fraternity without using humiliation. Delta Upsilon Executive Director Justin Kirk did confirm in an email, however, that, “Lafayette College administration notified Delta Upsilon on Friday that our Lafayette chapter has been temporarily suspended as it investigates an allegation against the chapter.”, While an official cease and desist has not been confirmed by the college, DU also withdrew its co-sponsorship with Alpha Phi Omega this week for their fourth annual open mic night in honor of DU brother, Last fall, the college confirmed that both. Delta Upsilon is built on respect and justice for our fellow man, we do not practice hazing. When reached by the Journal-World, KU spokeswoman Erinn Barcomb-Peterson said the university doesn’t use a formal system of “strikes” or “chances” when deciding whether to discipline campus organizations. A portion of a July 31, 2018 letter from Tammara Durham, The University of Kansas’ Vice Provost for Student Affairs, to Delta Upsilon. (Photo by Lindsey Quigley ’20) An incident of hazing was reported in the crime log at Delta Upsilon (DU) last Thursday, November 7, though the date of the incident was reported as unknown. According to the Legal Information Institute, a cease and desist order is “an order of a court or government agency to a person, business, or organization to stop doing something.” While an official cease and desist has not been confirmed by the college, DU also withdrew its co-sponsorship with Alpha Phi Omega this week for their fourth annual open mic night in honor of DU brother Joey Towers ’18 who passed away in fall 2016. In an email, KU’s custodian of public records, Jen Arbuthnot, wrote that portions were redacted because of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), “which prohibits the University from releasing individually identifiable student records without their written permission.”. In October, Sigma Pi was banned for hazing. No secret oaths. Phone: 814-863-8065 Email: greeks@psu.edu Copyright © Lawrence Journal-World: news, information, headlines and events in Lawrence, Kansas | https://www2.ljworld.com | 1035 N. Third Street, Lawrence, KS 66044 | 800-578-8748 | Ogden Newspapers | The Nutting Company | Terms of Service. However, the unredacted portions of the letter suggest that the hazing involved “personal servitude,” “forced alcohol consumption,” “excessive fatigue and sleep deprivation” and “multiple incidents of violence.”. No hazing. 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What, exactly, those acts were isn’t clear from the documents — in Durham’s July 31, 2018 letter to the fraternity notifying it of the suspension, a bulleted list of seven “behaviors” described by those members is entirely redacted. In a statement, Delta Upsilon Executive Director Justin Kirk said the charter had been revoked June 28 “for severe violations of Loss Prevention Policy, including hazing. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Home of the Florida Chapter of the Delta Upsilon Fraternity, located at 1814 W. University Avenue in Gainesville, Florida. The chapter’s parent organization, Delta Upsilon International Fraternity, had decided to close the KU house, according to the hearing committee chair’s letter. Delta Upsilon is the world’s oldest non-secret, non-hazing fraternity. Nine of them agreed to the interviews, and “at least two” of those members described acts of hazing that took place in fall 2017. STILLWATER The four-year banishment of Oklahoma State University's Delta Upsilon fraternity for alleged hazing violations will be appealed, the fraternity's international executive director said Monday.Steven Gerber of Indianapolis said the punishment of Delta Upsilon was too severe.Gerber said OSU administrators singled out the fraternity "to send a message to the entire Greek system and the rest of … Delta Upsilon is also a non-hazing, & … According to the documents, the university’s Student Conduct and Community Standards staff sought to meet with all 22 new members of Delta Upsilon as part of the 2018 investigation. The Journal-World requested the files under the Kansas Open Records Act and received them in September. But even if KU had not suspended the chapter, Delta Upsilon would not have been able to operate at the university for at least the 2018-2019 school year.