New details in suspension of Greek organizations at FGCU

Author: Alec Schreck
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FORT MYERS, Fla.- WINK News is learning more about problems for fraternities and a sorority at Florida Gulf Coast University.

Three organizations have been suspended, two for alleged hazing, and one for throwing a party.

According to our partners at The News-Press, a sorority and a fraternity were suspended for alleged hazing.

Kappa Alpha fraternity was suspended for throwing an off campus party.

One student tells WINK News, many of those doling out the punishment were probably in fraternities and sororities in their college years and are acting unfairly.

“I feel like they forgot like, they’re hypocrites because back when they did it, it was okay but now that we do it, it’s a problem?”

While WINK News was on campus Monday, a fraternity was holding a fundraiser for firefighters and law enforcement officers that have died in the line of duty.

The president of that fraternity says he works to get his group to play by the rules.

” Lee County Sheriff’s department cracks down on parties pretty hard.  they go in and they’ll make arrests just based on having more than ten people at your house with alcohol present and they’re pretty serious about it,” said Pi Kappa Alpha president Joseph Bolta.

FGCU’s Dean of Students Michelle Yovanovich says although fraternities need to get permission to throw parties, she understands how they can quickly get out of hand.

“All of the sudden because of social media they’ll be a couple of hundred students that can show up there for the party. So that’s not unusual for college students at all,” said Yovanovich.

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