{"id":4240,"date":"2011-05-13T05:12:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T09:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2011-06-01T08:58:33","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T12:58:33","slug":"morning-read-north-country-college-fraternities-face-banishment-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/05\/13\/morning-read-north-country-college-fraternities-face-banishment-arrests\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  North Country college fraternities face banishment, arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a lousy month for fraternities at North Country colleges.\u00a0 On May 6th, SUNY Plattsburgh announced that it was disbanding the Theta Kappa Beta fraternity on its campus for &#8220;violation of campus regulations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This from the official announcement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Through campus judicial procedures, the fraternity was found responsible  for hosting an activity at which individuals under the age of 21 were  in possession of alcohol. This is one of a number of infractions over  the past decade, including a willful falsification of information in discussions with police over a 2007 incident, a  failure to meet conditions of probation in the fall of 2010 and a  refusal to pay an insurance bill in 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This morning, meanwhile, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/section\/breakingnews\">Watertown Daily Times<\/a> is reporting that six SUNY Potsdam students &#8212; including three members of a <em>different<\/em> recently banned fraternity &#8212; have been arrested as part of a drug sweep.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those charged with fifth-degree criminal sale of a controlled  substance are Stephen B. McDonough, 20, Van Nuys, Calif.; Jesse W.  Moore, 22, of 46 S. Main St., Hammond; Terrance A. Brown, 21, of 23  Pierrepont Ave., Potsdam; and Matthew R. Loibl, 20, Massapequa Park.<\/p>\n<p>Mr.  [Jesse] Moore, Mr. [Terrance] Brown and Mr. [Matthew] Loibl were all members of the Delta chapter of  Psi Phi fraternity, which was permanently disbanded last month by SUNY  Potsdam, college officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The college had withdrawn all  recognition of and affiliation with the fraternity and declared that its  social and recruitment activities must cease. The decision was based on  multiple violations of college policy, state law and fraternity  standards and expectations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two of the other men arrested were also fraternity members, though their house hasn&#8217;t been banned.<\/p>\n<p>So I don&#8217;t have any connection to the college fraternity culture, positive or negative.\u00a0 Are these institutions still valuable?<\/p>\n<p>Do they contribute something to campus life in the region?\u00a0 If so, how are these particular organizations going so badly off the rails?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a lousy month for fraternities at North Country colleges.\u00a0 On May 6th, SUNY [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4241,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions\/4241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}