Fraternity Allegedly Used Color-Coded System To Roofie Girls At Parties (TKE House UW-Milwaukee)

[big_dog]

Police are investigating a reported color-coded system for drugging young women at a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee fraternity after three female students and one male had to be hospitalized for extreme intoxication. According to the police report, members of the UWM chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon drew different colored X-marks on the hands of visitors — black for men, red for women — at a house party last weekend. The red marks allowed female guests access to different beverages, which were likely spiked with at least one “date rape” drug; the male student who was hospitalized claimed he drank from his female friend’s cup.

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that police responded to multiple calls to an on-campus dormitory early on Saturday morning, where they discovered several students blacked out, so intoxicated they could barely stand. All said they had been drinking at the TKE house, and others who attended the party told law enforcement officials that they saw “bartenders” mixing some drinks conspicuously under the bar, returning “cloudy” vodka-based drinks to guests. So far, one UWM student — likely a member of TKE — has been arrested. The fraternity was investigated last year on three sexual assault charges, the Journal-Sentinel reports, and the most recent investigation has prompted university officials to take action: “We are deeply concerned about these allegations because the safety of our students is our No. 1 priority,” UWM spokesman Tom Luljak said Thursday. “Our police are aggressively pursuing this investigation to determine exactly what happened and who may be involved.” …

UWM on Thursday suspended the fraternity’s affiliation with the university for at least as long as it takes for police to conduct their investigation, Luljak said. Once the investigation is completed, additional actions could be taken by the university, he said. The fraternity house is a private residence, which means the university has no authority over what happens there. UWM, however, does control the fraternity’s affiliation with the university and its members’ affiliation with the university.

Apparently, the alleged system of color-coding laced drinks for female students was not surprising to some visitors. From the police report: Police followed up later with the women who were severely intoxicated. One told officers that a Facebook posting said Tau Kappa Epsilon had tried to “roofie” women — that is, give women a “date rape” drug that renders them unconscious — during the party the night before. She recalled a fraternity member got upset when she went behind the bar to pour drinks and was physically removed. She also told officers she had a “weird feeling and sensation prior to blacking out.” http://www.salon.com/2014/09/19/college_fraternity_allegedly_used_color_coded_system_to_roofie_girls_at_parties/

[Arugula Latte]

1. Shut that house down for good.

[1StrongBlackMan]

13. No ...

prosecute the members of the fraternity who were involved, which the actively participated, or knew about the scheme and said nothing..

Believe it or not, there are Fraternities that do not engage in such behavior; and there are, likely, members of THAT fraternity and in THAT house that don't/wouldn't stand for that conduct.

[cali]

2. Prosecute those responsible. Prosecute those who knew and did nothing to stop it.

Kick those responsible out of college and shut down the frat house.

[big_dog]

3. according to the girls facebook posts they tried it the night before too

unbeliveable. i would civil sue the national chapter as well

[ProfessorGAC]

4. What Posts 1 & 2 Said

I played basketball on a frat team in college, but i never joined. This shit is why. And, the tekes i knew were like this and i was in college in the mid-70's.

Same as it ever was.

[hifiguy]

5. WTF??

I was in a fraternity (Delta Tau Delta) in the early 1980s for a couple of years. Our national was extremely no-nonsense and well ahead of the curve. The totality of our "hazing" during initiation week was having to sleep in the TV room with 15 other moderately smelly guys and not being able to set foot in the house between 9 am and 4 pm followed by mandatory attendance at a beer blast at week's end. "Real" hazing had been strictly forbidden some years before and chapters got the death penalty for it. Shit like this never would have crossed the mind of anyone in my chapter, much less been acted upon.

Our national had yanked several charters the year before I was a freshman and everyone in the house knew that any bullshit and we would be kicked out of the national faster than you could blink your eyes.

ETA - Some "brothers" in this house need to see the inside of the Big House.

[geardaddy]

6. Revoke their charter

and civil sue the national organization.

[KamaAina]

23. ...

[geardaddy]

39. ...

Double secret probation.

[Brickbat]

7. Did different women get different colors?

I don't see the importance of the Xs, otherwise.

[LiberalAndProud]

37. Allegedly, hot women get the red X.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/uw-milwaukee-fraternity-probed-over-drugs-slipped-into-party-drinks-b99354529z1-275664681.html

[Dreamer Tatum]

8. The Greek system needs to be outlawed. It is completely worthless. nt

[MineralMan]

9. Ban the frat and jail anyone who mixed drinks under this system.

The time is long past for toleration of this crap from fraternity houses.

Prosecutions are in order.

[Taitertots]

10. The article presents no evidence that anyone was drugged

No drinks tested positive for drugs and no students tested positive for drugs.

[Comrade Grumpy]

12. You are right. It does present evidence of severely drunk people.

The #1 date rape drug is alcohol.

I find it somewhat ludicrous when I read stories about products that test for date rape drugs in drinks. Do they test for alcohol?

[alp227]

19. So? nt

[Taitertots]

20. It's yellow journalism.

The title should be "College students got drunk". Nothing in the article would indicate that anything different happened.

[alp227]

22. It's far beyond being drunk. There's the potential for sexual predation here.

Guess what happens after being drunk? Passing out! And when you've got horny young men with passed-out young women at a party...shit can happen. The devil's in the details, and I'm sorry to know you aren't willing to open your mind.

[Taitertots]

25. Oh, so it is exactly the same as every time anyone drinks alcohol. n/t

[alp227]

26. What are you insinuating here?

Are you denying that sexual predators lure their victims with alcohol?

[Taitertots]

28. Are you saying serving alcohol is evidence that someone is a sexual predator?

Are you suggesting that the students in the OP are sexual predators because they served alcohol?

"Are you denying that sexual predators lure their victims with alcohol?"
No.

[alp227]

29. Your first question has a dishonest, ignorant premise.

The students are not sexual predators merely because they served alcohol. They are sexual predators because of their intent in serving alcohol - not to mention the possibility of spiked drinks too!

[Taitertots]

32. And there is nothing that would indicate that the date rape intention exists in this case

And there is no evidence that any of the drinks were spiked.

[Wellstone ruled]

11. Another UW School that needs

to get real. ETA chapter needs to hung out to dry. Though you guy's learned your lesson from the early 60's. Obviously the old School of Engineering has problems drawing straight lines. Say it ain't so.

[Oktober]

14. Burn the house to the foundation...

Prison for everyone involved...

Disband the organization nationally....

I'd be OK with the removal of all Greek life but that's another topic... Kinda...

[seabeyond]

15. good thing it is just the few, really out there, psychotic men doing this. sarcasm.

are we seeing a trend. that what has become acceptable before is no longer the few, but a learned norm.

[Comrade Grumpy]

17. Are we seeing a trend?

So far there is no evidence that anything was spiked with anything other than alcohol.

There is no allegation that anyone was sexually assaulted.

The article linked to reports that blood tests showed several victims were way drunk, not doped.

People have been getting shit-faced at college parties since, well, forever.

[alp227]

18. Why parse so much?

Did you even read the article? There can't be good intentions if women are being targeted with different drinks. Getting shitfaced one thing, being targeted by sexual predators another.

[hifiguy]

21. There you go again,

using actual extrinsic evidence. Not allowed.

[d_r]

16. if you can't go greek, go teek

[SoCalDem]

24. Tekes have not changed over the decades

[CanonRay]

27. TKE's were the supreme jerks on my campus 40 years ago

apparently, it's a tradition that lives on.

[NuclearDem]

30. If TKE has any sense of decency, they'll put that chapter on probation

And expel the members involved.

[Hosnon]

31. What was the purpose of the color-coded system?

Could they not tell who was male and who was female?

[surrealAmerican]

33. They're lucky they didn't kill anyone.

Those stupid jerks belong in jail. This could easily have been fatal if the wrong girl had got a hold of one of those drinks.

[Half-Century Man]

34. My take on this shit

If you are an organized planned effort to drug others for sex, you are trafficking in human beings. You are engaging in temporary narco-slavery and need to be dealt with as such.

[nomorenomore08]

38. Federal charges? Hey, whatever works.

[reddread]

36. overlooking the role of alcohol and underage drinking

doesnt get much worse than what happened here-

http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/09/16/4127357/pair-get-jail-time-in-fresno-state.html

[Liberal_in_LA]

40. awful