Tag: Sororities

Marshall: Frats, Sororities Must Do Risk Management Training

  Marshall University is requiring its fraternity and sorority chapters to undergo training for risk management and party hosting after hundreds of students had to be dispersed by police last month.

Marshall says in a news release the training must be completed before the chapters can host social events.

Those that don’t follow the guidelines can be placed on probation for a semester for a first violation and would be suspended for a semester for a second violation in a calendar year. A chapter would lose its status for a third calendar-year violation.

The release says the university’s Interfraternity Council also passed a policy barring events involving alcohol during the week before classes begin and the first week of classes, and during recruitment events in the second and third weeks.

 

WVU Partially Lifting Greek Activity Ban, Pledging Allowed

  West Virginia University is partially lifting a ban on Greek activity.

Effective Monday, Dean of Students Corey Farris tells the Charleston Daily Mail that fraternities and sororities can restart pledging and initiation procedures.

A moratorium on social events will remain in effect. Students are developing a course of action to address hazing and other issues regarding the Greek organizations.

The university suspended Greek activity following the death of 18-year-old freshman Nolan Burch on Nov. 14, 2014. Burch was found unconscious and not breathing at the Kappa Sigma fraternity house.

Students will return to campus from winter break on Monday.

WVU Suspends Fraternity and Sorority Activities, Student Dies

An 18-year-old student at the center of an investigation into the conduct at fraternities and sororities at WVU has died.

Late Wednesday night, police were called to the Kappa Sigma fraternity. They found someone performing CPR on Michael Nolan Burch. 
Preston said Burch had no pulse and wasn’t breathing. He was taken to Ruby Memorial Hospital, where he died today.  

 
Burch, of Williamsville, N.Y., was a freshman majoring in pre-sport management. 
 
This incident follows another involving a different fraternity earlier this week. About 19 members of the Sigma Chi fraternity were arrested reports of a large crowd running through the neighborhood screaming and yelling.
 
West Virginia University has suspended social and pledging activities at its campus-affiliated fraternities and sororities following two recent incidents.
 
WVU Dean of Students Corey Farris says halting fraternity and sorority activities was done with students’ well-being and safety in mind.

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