I would have thought we meant something to our national." "I would think to close a chapter that has been here 96 years, one of the executives could have come down. "They sent down messengers from the national who handed us a packet of papers," said Press, who was still looking for a place to rent last night. Fraser and Jeff Press, the chapter's president, said the treatment by their own national organization has been the most difficult thing to accept. But the issue became moot on July 23 when the fraternity's national leaders in Pennsylvania revoked Phi Kappa Sigma's College Park charter, said Drury Bagwell, assistant vice president of the university.īut because of a secret agreement between the college and the fraternity's headquarters, no one told the local members until Sunday. The university had hoped to resolve the problems with its oldest fraternity this fall. Everyone was given just six days' notice to vacate and find new housing, and school starts on Tuesday." "I can't totally disagree with the actions, but my point is the way they went about it. Fraser, an Annapolis resident who heads the chapter's alumni corporation. "They have done some things wrong," said Keith T. today and then posted armed campus police officers there round-the-clock to ensure they left on time and without trashing the place. Over the winter, their pledges stole a flag from a local golf course.īut the chapter's 30 shell-shocked members said they didn't deserve this: The university ordered them on Sunday to vacate 5 Fraternity Row, the chapter's home of 43 years, by 7 p.m. Last fall, they forged a document saying they had fulfilled their obligation to sit through a safety talk by a fire inspector. Members of the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity were in a brawl near their chapter house at the University of Maryland-College Park one weekend this summer.
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