Investigation of viral email continues
Posted April 6, 2011 at 12:02 am in News
A student has come forward with information about the viral Kappa Sigma email that circulated around the university campus and beyond, according to Vice President of Student Affairs Michael L. Jackson.
Jackson said the university is currently reviewing the information the student provided to see if it changes the university’s view of what happened.
Jackson sent an email to the university community last month, saying the university had learned in its investigation that a USC student did not write the email. Instead, the university said, a friend at an East Coast university forwarded it to the student who sent it to the USC Kappa Sigma listserv.
Mitchell Wilson, executive director of Kappa Sigma Fraternity, said the Kappa Sigma Fraternity nationals has completed its investigation of the viral email. Wilson said the investigation was not able to determine who created the email, but the individuals at USC involved with forwarding the email and making inappropriate comments in response to the email are in the process of being disciplined. Wilson did not talk about the punishments.
Wilson also said Kappa Sigma nationals will soon be conducting a membership review of USC’s Kappa Sigma chapter.
“We go in and meet with each individual and we review them, we look at their record of membership in the chapter and what they’ve done,” Wilson said. “We have to have some affirmation that they are committed to the values of our fraternity and that they are going to live by these values.”
Wilson said membership reviews for Kappa Sigma chapters occur on a case-by-case basis. Individuals who are found in violation of Kappa Sigma’s principles will be suspended or expelled from the fraternity.
“We wish to make very sure that we have the men going forward who are going to represent our fraternity in a positive fashion,” Wilson said.
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She will be never seen again…The cover-up continues
I feel like none of my comments on this site are ever posted anymore.
Anyway, I’m glad the investigation is continuing. Today in my French class, we were talking about the email and 6 different people all said they knew it was a coverup and they knew who the author was. I felt bad for the couple of kids who didn’t know!
The e-mail has hurt plenty of women on campus and it’s a call to action. Enough of the “it’s no big deal” comments. And, most importantly, what happened to all of the comments that were already posted on this story?
It’s no big deal.
Seriously? this is an entirely new article. It was posted yesterday. It was in the paper today. The original email story had all the comments. Losers.
for the love of gawd…WHO CARES! the email hurts no one, and is a non issue. It will neither form a young mans opinion of ladies, or get any ladie attacked. Its a tasteless stupid joke that no oen will act on. Stop acting like this is the biggest danger to women since Bundy. GEEZ!!!