INVESTIGATIONS AND ARREST THE RIGHT FOLKS. >>> UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND HAS ORDERED FRATERNITIES AND SORORITIES ON CAMPUS TO SUSPEND SOCIAL AND RECRUITMENT ACTIVITIES AFTER THE SCHOOL RECEIVED MULTIPLE REPORTS OF UNSAFE ACTIVITIES. NEWS 4’S DOMINIQUE MOODY JOINS US LIVE WITH THE LATEST ON THIS INVESTIGATION.
WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED? >> MAURICIO, THE UNIVERSITY SAID THEY WERE MADE AWARE OF SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS THAT INVOLVED MULTIPLE GREEK LETTER ORGANIZATIONS HERE ON CAMPUS. THEY SAID THAT THOSE ACTIVITIES THAT SOME OF THOSE CHAPTERS WERE PARTICIPATING IN ACTUALLY CAUSED HARM AND ACTUALLY LED TO MAYBE
SOME OF THIS INVESTIGATION HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. WE WANT TO WALK YOU THROUGH EXACTLY WHAT WE KNOW RIGHT NOW. WE KNOW THAT NOW THERE ARE CHAPTERS, A PART OF THE INTERFRATERNITY COUNCIL AND PAN-HELLENIC COUNCIL. THE DECISION CAME AFTER THE UNIVERSITY LEADERS RECEIVED ALLEGATIONS OF MISCONDUCT
FOLLOWING AN EMERGENCY MEETING WITH THOSE ORGANIZATIONS ON THURSDAY. THE UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCED ALL IFC AND PHA NEW FEBRUARY PROGRAM ACTIVITIES ARE SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY DURING AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE ALLEGATIONS. UNIVERSITY LEADERS ALSO HANDED DOWN A SOCIAL MORATORIUM PROHIBITING THE CHAPTERS FROM
HOSTING ANY EVENTS ON OR OFF CAMPUS WHERE ALCOHOL IS PRESENT AND DURING THIS TIME CURRENT MEMBERS OF THE ORGANIZATIONS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO HAVE ANY CONTACT WITH NEW OR PROSPECTIVE MEMBERS OF THE ORGANIZATIONS. THE UNIVERSITY SAYS THE MORATORIUM WILL NOT IMPACT ANY
OF THE FIVE BLACK — HISTORICALLY BLACK GREEK ORGANIZATIONS KNOWN AS THE THAN
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