Burned frat house tampered with

IU Police Department officers discovered Friday that boards on the windows of the abandoned Sigma Alpha Epsilon house, which sustained fire damage in February, had been removed and a lock on the side door of the house had been partially pried away, said IUPD Lt. Jerry Minger, reading from the police report.\nMinger said officers found the south patio door of the building open, boards removed from three windows and the windows' glass broken. Part of a lock on one of the other doors had been partially pried away, but the padlock remained, and the door was still locked from the inside.\nMinger said officers are unsure when the damage occurred and said IUPD does not know why it happened.\nThe fraternity's national organization shut down the IU chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon in 2002 after IUPD busted a party in the house, according to a May 3, 2002, Indiana Daily Student article. The house has been empty since then.\nIn early February, an early-morning fire inflicted what police estimated to be about $200,000 worth of damage on the house, according to a Feb. 10 IDS article.\nMinger said, as of press time, IUPD was making attempts to find out who was responsible for boarding the house back up.