Ryan Nguyen and Michael Tobin have the story in the Emerald. While other university’s have been sued for closing frats and expelling students for exercising their first amendment rights to act like fucking morons, UO’s student conduct office cleverly nailed them on a hazing violation instead. Great idea. Read the story for the usual Klingerisms.
How long were the Omegas on double secret probation?
“…any intentional action or situation that a reasonable person would foresee as causing mental or physical discomfort, embarrassment, or ridicule.”
I guess I’m not reasonable, then. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
The national organization is the one that ‘closed’ the chapter. They have an internal code of conduct that defines membership, which these individuals apparently violated. They may have a first amendment right to be morons, but they don’t have a first amendment right to be Phi Kappa Psi.