Alex FriedrichI’ve been trying to figure out who cracks the whip on problem fraternities. When the University of Minnesota community was hit by the three recent sexual assault cases, I tried to rely on my memory as a fraternity brother in the 1980s. But all I could think of was Dean Wormer in Animal House growling: Read more →
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After being suspended by its peers at the University of Minnesota, Delta Kappa Epsilon, the fraternity whose University of Minnesota chapter was the site of a recently reported sexual assault, has now been suspended by its headquarters, the national organization’s executive director said. Doug Lanpher said the national officers have asked their University of Minnesota Read more →
MPR’s Tim Post has this update — with audio — to the story of three recent sexual assaults at University of Minnesota fraternities. He reports that fraternity leaders have put a so-called social moratorium in place. The move means no alcohol can be consumed at a frat house, if guests from outside the house are Read more →
As my colleague, Tim Post, works on his piece on the three sexual assaults at off-campus fraternity houses near the University of Minnesota, I spoke with Inspector Bryan Schafer of the Minneapolis Police Department to get a little police context. Here are a few comments he had in our conversation. On whether police see fraternity Read more →
The three recent sexual assault cases at fraternity houses near the University of Minnesota are not related, Minneapolis police Sgt. Bill Palmer said this morning. He would not release further details of the three cases, including whether suspects in the second two were fraternity members. Alcohol was present in all three case, however. Police are Read more →