Kappa Sigma faces sanction

Kappa Sigma fraternity was placed on disciplinary probation Wednesday after an investigation into an incident last April by Dean of Students Richard McKaig.\nThe fraternity has been under investigation by the University and the national chapter since a fraternity member was hospitalized due to injuries he sustained after being assaulted by other members of the fraternity. \nThe man was duct taped to a ladder and had eggs thrown at him after giving his girlfriend a necklace with a pendant containing the letters of his fraternity, according to a previous IDS article.\nThe fraternity will be restricted from social events, including intramural sports and campus activities like Little 500, IU Sing and Homecoming.\n"That decision is still subject to review if the chapter chooses," McKaig said. "At this stage, it stands unless a review request is submitted, so (the decision) could still be subject to change."\nMcKaig said the decision was a judgement call.\n"Based on conversations with fraternity officers (and) local organizations, we agreed this was an appropriate and reasonable sanction," he said.\nInterfraternity Council president Evan Waldman said this action was foreseeable.\n"I think that the decision is just, reason being the members of Kappa Sigma put another member in harms way knowingly," he said. "The purpose of this decision and corrective action is to set them back on the right track."\nKappa Sigma president Alan Hazzard refused to comment.\n-- Contact staff writer Brittany Hite at bhite@indiana.edu.