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under investigation Campus Life officials have initiated university disciplinary procedures against seven students involved in an incident at Milton Daniel Residence Hall late Wednesday night, said Mike Russel, associate dean of Campus Life Thursday afternoon. He said some members of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity and several student athletes are cooperating fully with the Campus Life investigation. Police were dispatched to Milton Daniel Hall at 9:43 p.m. Wednesday following a report that residents were using a slingshot to launch water balloons from a second-floor window and had struck a disabled car parked between Milton Daniel and Moncrief Halls. According to the incident report, a group of male students were standing around the car trying to fix it when the incident occurred. Other details of the incident have not been released in accordance with privacy laws guarding students at private universities, said Susan Adams, associate vice chancellor and dean of Campus Life. Russel said he has no reason to believe alcohol or drugs were involved in the incident and he has no basis to judge whether or not the incident was racially motivated. The athletes allege the residents, who have not been identified, used a racial slur during the incident. According to reports, the men who were standing around the car stormed into the residence hall angry about possible derogatory comments. “We were sitting outside, and some (fraternity) guys threw some water balloons at us,” said Dewayne Simmons, a sophomore business major. “That wasn’t the (bad) thing. That’s just college fun. But they called us ‘niggers.’ You can’t go around making racial comments like that.” The other athletes would not comment, one saying he was afraid “of causing a riot.” Pi Kappa Phi officials would not comment on the details of the investigation, but fraternity president Brian Casebolt said Thursday that members are “fully cooperating with campus officials in hopes the investigation will be concluded in an expeditious and fair manner.” Casebolt also released a statement on behalf of the fraternity late Wednesday which stated in part that “...Pi Kappa Phi will act in a swift, decisive manner to hold all of its members to the highest quality of behavior, and it will accept nothing less...” Russel said the investigation is in preliminary stages, but he anticipates it will be completed by next week. |
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