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 COLUMBIA, Mo. - University of Missouri officials have at least two open investigations into the potential use of "date rape" drugs at Delta Upsilon fraternity. 
 
 ABC 17 News first reported Wednesday through an open records request the series of incidents that led to a temporary suspension of Delta Upsilon in late September. The fraternity was given disciplinary probation just a day before a racially-charged incident with students in the Legion of Black Collegians ended up in DU front lawn on September 27. The national organization placed its Columbia chapter on emergency suspension the next day, and the school's Office of Student Conduct continues to investigate that issue. 
 
 DU received probation after several issues arose from parties on August 27 and September 10. A 20-year-old woman was taken by ambulance for an alcohol overdose, a man was pushed down a flight of steps during a fight and an 18-year-old girl tripped and hit her head after drinking too much at DU during the September incident. The fraternity had been given two warnings prior to that by the school for underage drinking and "failing to comply" with University police during a theft investigation. 
 
 ABC 17 News uncovered a letter from the Title IX Office informing the fraternity of a possible investigation into use of "date rape" drugs. The letter, dated September 13, said the office received numerous contacts from students, along with social media posts that claim "active members of Delta Upsilon fraternity allegedly provided each new member with three pills and instructed them to drug women for the purpose of incapacitating them prior to engaging in sexual activity." 
 
 The letter from Title IX Administrator Ellen Eardley goes on to say, "Should my office receive any information indicating that there is any veracity to the allegations that Delta Upsilon promoted sexual misconduct and hazing, an investigation will begin immediately." 
 
 MU spokesman Christian Basi told ABC 17 News Thursday he could not comment on the status of that particular matter. 
 
 An MUPD police report details a medical call on Sept. 16 for an 18-year-old student acting strangely in Johnston Hall. The woman was naked from the waist down, the officer wrote, and had "smeared feces" on the walls of the hall. She eventually went to the hospital with a friend and the police, telling them she had been drinking at several places, including DU. She did not see how made her drinks at that fraternity, according to the report. At University Hospital, officers took samples of her urine to test for drug intoxication that night. She also told officers she did not remember whether or not she had sex that night. 
 
 Officer Bryanne Gawlik also wrote that the woman did not see who made her drinks that day. 
 
 Major Brian Weimer confirmed that investigation is still open. 
 
 Ashley Martin, DU national director of communications, told ABC 17 News the fraternity has "worked tirelessly and collaboratively" with the school to investigate these reports, some of which they had just learned about. Martin pointed to an "internal membership review" at Mizzou two years ago that led to the removal of 90 of its 123 members.They also reorganized chapter policy, including alcohol and guest rules. 
 
 "We will not condone or tolerate the type of behavior alleged in these incidents, and the chapter remains on a temporary suspension as our investigation continues," Martin said in an email. "We are committed to holding all members to our code of conduct, and our investigation will help us determine whether our Missouri Chapter can positively contribute to a safe, enriching and inclusive campus environment." 
 
 While individual students could face expulsion for any violations of student conduct, Basi said the fraternity as a whole could see "withdrawal of recognition" by the university. That means the fraternity could not use school spaces for anything, and it would be unable to participate in events like Homecoming. A group that receives such a punishment could either appeal, or reapply for recognition, depending on the punishment laid out by the Office of Student Conduct. ||||| Wesleyan University is breaking tradition. Over the next 3 years all fraternities must allow women. (Published Monday, Sept. 22, 2014) 
 
 All-male residential fraternities at Wesleyan University in Middletown must now open their doors to female members, according to a recent decision by the college administration. 
 
 The change is intended to make Wesleyan all-inclusive, a university spokesperson said Monday. The decision will affect Delta Kappa Epsilon and Psi Upsilon, the two all-male fraternities at Wesleyan. 
 
 "With equity and inclusion in mind, we have decided that residential fraternities must become fully co-educational over the next three years," Wesleyan President Michael S. Roth and Board of Trustees Chairman Joshua Boger, both university alumni, wrote in an email notifying the school community Monday morning. 
 
 "If the organizations are to continue to be recognized as offering housing and social spaces for Wesleyan students, women as well as men must be full members and well-represented in the body and leadership of the organization," the email continues. 
 
 Beta House Off Limits After Student Falls 
 
 Following the fall of a student Wesleyan University announced the Beta Theta PI house on High Street will be off limits to all students for this academic year at least (Published Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014) 
 
 Just weeks ago, Wesleyan closed the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house after a sophomore fell from a third-story window during a party at the Middletown fraternity. She was airlifted to the hospital in critical condition and was most recently upgraded to stable condition. The fraternity's status was already listed as suspended prior to the incident. 
 
 But the administration's overhaul of Greek Life on campus has been a ongoing conversation for several years, according to Wesleyan leadership. 
 
 "The trustees and administration recognize that residential fraternities have contributed greatly to Wesleyan over a long period of time, but we also believe they must change to continue to benefit their members and the larger campus community," Roth and Boger wrote in the email. 
 
 The university "looks forward to receiving plans" on transitioning the all-male residential fraternities to a co-ed model and said school officials will collaborate with the fraternities to provide assistance with the changes. 
 
 The mandate will not apply to non-residential fraternities. 
 
 "Although this change does not effect nonresidential organizations, we are hopeful that groups across the University will continue to work together to create a more inclusive, equitable and safer campus," Roth and Boger wrote. 
 
 Wesleyan Student Seriously Injured in Fall 
 
 Police investigate incident at fraternity (Published Monday, Sept. 8, 2014) 
 
 Fraternity members are concerned about the restructuring. Terence Durkin, president of the Gamma Phi chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon at Wesleyan, said it's unclear how the fraternity's national organization will respond. 
 
 "It's somewhat of an oxymoron to have women living in a fraternity. Our national organization doesn't allow women in our fraternity," Durkin explained. "If we're forced to have women in our organization, our chapter will lose its legitimacy." 
 
 Although Greek organizations were notified of the policy change yesterday, Durkin said it was a long time coming. 
 
 "We've known this was a possibility since last spring, so we've been thinking about it. We knew it was a possibility, so we're just going to go forward an work with the administration as best we can to try to come up with a good solution," he said. 
 
 A spokesperson for Phi Upsilon's national organization said Monday that, although the fraternity is historically all-male, female members are permitted at the discretion of the university. 
 
 "We have no problem if the Xi Chapter at Wesleyan chooses to initiate women, we would work with the chapter they decide to do so" Phi Upsilon Executive Director Thomas Fox said in an email Monday night. 
 
 Other students are cautiously optimistic about the shift. 
 
 "I think gender integrating fraternities and sororities into social houses is theoretically a great thing," said Kyle Foley, a freshman. "But these are young people that are away from home for the first time. As long as you also have a culture of going out and experimenting, possibly with some alcohol and going to parties, there's still an element of danger no matter what the make-up of those social clubs is." 
 
 Foley said the university stands to gain a lot from the new policy, but cautioned that "fraternities are a symptom of a larger issue among young people." ||||| HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A fraternity linked to a secret Facebook page on which photos of nude and semi-nude women were posted was shut down by Penn State for at least three years on Tuesday after the university's Interfraternity Council recommended a milder punishment. 
 
 Penn State said its investigation found some Kappa Delta Rho members had engaged in sexual harassment, hazing that included boxing matches and a "persistent climate of humiliation for several females." 
 
 The university's vice president for student affairs, Damon Sims, said not all frat members were equally culpable. 
 
 "Even so, the sum of the organizational misbehaviors is far more than the university can tolerate from a student organization that seeks its imprimatur," Sims said. 
 
 The university canceled the fraternity's recognition as a campus organization as of Tuesday, a status that will remain until May 2018. 
 
 A phone message left at the State College chapter house wasn't returned. An email sent to chapter president Tom Friel's university account also wasn't returned. A phone number for the president of the chapter's alumni corporation rang several times before the line went dead. 
 
 Penn State said it found members had forced pledges to run errands, clean the house, participate in boxing matches and maintain a painful posture similar to a pushup position, called a plank, with bottle caps under their elbows. Pledges also produced stories with pornographic images and what was described as a sex position of the day. The university said underage drinking and drug sales and use also were problems. 
 
 Two women, the university said, were subject to persistent harassment. 
 
 "The investigative report makes clear that some members of the KDR chapter promoted a culture of harassing behavior and degradation of women," Sims said. 
 
 Sims told the Interfraternity Council's standards vice presidents in a letter Tuesday the university was overriding its recommendation Kappa Delta Rho remain active but engage in a process of change and heightened accountability. 
 
 In a May 13 letter to Kappa Delta Rho's chapter president, two Interfraternity Council standards vice presidents said Penn State's investigative report, which the university declined to make public, said members of the chapter were aware of and used two private Facebook pages "where highly inappropriate photographs and messages were posted." 
 
 The letter also said members "collectively" knew of hazing, drug use and students being "degraded in flyers left in public view throughout the chapter house." 
 
 Earlier Tuesday, the fraternity's national executive director said the university's report didn't allege any member of the chapter had committed sexual assault. The executive director, Joseph Rosenberg, didn't respond to messages seeking comment. 
 
 The matter became public after State College police said in a search warrant they were looking into a Facebook page where, a former member told them, members shared photos of drug sales, hazing and unsuspecting victims, some of whom appeared to be asleep or passed out. The department hasn't released the results of its investigation. 
 
 The fraternity's national leadership can ask Penn State to recolonize the chapter after three years, a university spokeswoman said. That would trigger a review, and the university could set conditions on starting it back up, she said.
– A University of Missouri fraternity with a track record of problem behavior has been accused of telling new members to drug women and sexually assault them as part of their initiation, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. According to the Columbia Daily Tribune, multiple people informed the school in August that members of Delta Upsilon had given new members three pills each and told them to drug woman and have sex with them as the final step of initiation. Justin Kirk, executive director of Delta Upsilon, calls the allegations "deeply concerning" but notes there have been no claims of sexual assault brought against the frat. But in September, an 18-year-old girl was hospitalized after being possibly drugged, ABC 17 reports. She was found naked from the waist down and smearing feces on a wall after drinking at Delta Upsilon. She didn't see who was making her drinks and didn't remember if she had sex that night. This is just one in a string of problems at Delta Upsilon—which was temporarily suspended last month by both its national organization and the University of Missouri—including underage drinking, physical abuse, at least one assault, and a "racial incident." In September, frat members reportedly yelled racist and sexist slurs at black female students. Members also reportedly forced drunk pledges to fight each other. In one incident of underage drinking last year at Delta Upsilon, a woman had to be hospitalized. In 2014, the frat removed 90 of its 132 members and hired a live-in graduate student as well as an off-duty police officer to keep an eye on things. Multiple school investigations into Delta Upsilon are ongoing.