ByCrystal FambriniAssistant City Editor

Three more fraternities are under investigation for possiblealcohol violations which landed two minors in Alvarado Hospital: ZetaBeta Tau, Kappa Alpha and Phi Kappa Theta.

Strike one

Doug Case, coordinator for fraternity and sorority life, said a19-year-old female student was transported to Alvarado HospitalFriday, Nov. 10 with a near-lethal case of alcohol poisoning afterpartying at the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity house, located at 5071College Avenue. Her blood alcohol level was .31. Case said the girltold officers she was drinking vodka that she brought into the party.

This is the third near-fatal case of alcohol poisoning involvingthe greek community to be reported this semester.

Zeta Beta Tau president E.J. Ochoa said the girl was already drunkbefore she got to the party. Members escorted her back to herresidence hall. Ochoa said they wanted to get the girl to thehospital, but her friend insisted that it wasn’t necessary.

The next night ZBT continued its party and three 16-year-old highschool girls reported they attended and were given beer. Whether theydid in fact attend is in dispute, and Ochoa said the girls were “notinvited whatsoever.”

Case said ZBT broke the rules by not having security guards ateither party. Ochoa said they had planned on hiring security, butbecause of unforeseen circumstances, resorted to alumni andfraternity members instead.

Strike two

The Kappa Alpha fraternity is also being investigated for possiblealcohol and other violations. An 18-year-old female SDSU studentreported that a drug may have been slipped in her drink while she wasat a KA party, located at 5141 Campanile Drive, Case said.

The student said she had one beer, a shot of vodka and somealcoholic punch that was provided to her by a fraternity member.Later, she said she passed out in a fraternity member’s bedroom andwhen she woke up, she wasn’t sure if she had been sexually assaulted.She informed her resident advisor of what had happened, who in turnwrote a report and gave it to Case. The girl did not receive a drugtest.

“There’s no way to tell whether it is true, and if true, whoslipped the drug,” Case said. But incidents like this are one reasonwhy hard liquor, plastic cups and tumblers are no longer allowed atfraternity parties — in order to help prevent drugs being slippedinto drinks, he said.

Kappa Alpha president Mike Pereira said he was just heard thestory yesterday.

“I believe at a party anything is possible,” he said. “I’m surenone of our members would ever do it.”

That same night, two 18-year-old females said they were servedbeer, Case said. None of the three women were on the guest list.

Three security guards were at the door checking IDs, handing outwristbands, and making sure only the people on the guest list werelet in.

“Security is in charge of everything,” Pereira said, but admittedthat even with the help of security and 10 sober fraternity memberswatching the party, it’s still hard to control up to 170 people’sactions.

“With a fraternity house there is so many nooks and crannies thatpeople can hide off somewhere and do some drinking if they choose,”he said.

Pereira said KA is doing its own investigations as to whathappened that night and doesn’t believe any of their members wereinvolved.

“We are conducting our own investigation and we want to find outexactly what happened,” he said. “That way if any of our members wereinvolved, we can reprimand them. All of our members have a copy ofthe risk management policies and I severely doubt that alcohol wasprovided to minors because they know the policies. Before that partyeven started we had a meeting right before the party and I clearlytold everybody no serving alcohol to minors and to keep their headson straight and be careful and watch for any foul play.”

Strike three

A 19-year-old female University of San Diego student was foundintoxicated and vomiting at Olmeca Residence Hall Saturday night,Case said. She said she had been partying at the Phi Kappa Thetafraternity, located at 5164 College Ave.

James Olmstead, president of Phi Kappa Theta, said that’s acop-out.

“Pretty much if a person in the dorms, 99 percent of them areunder 21. If they are found intoxicated or out of control they aregoing to save themselves and say ‘Oh, I drank at a fraternityhouse’,” he said. “They are not going to say ‘Oh I drank in my roombefore I went over there, I drank in my room when I came back, Idrank at my friend’s car.’ They are not going to put themselves ortheir friends in danger.”

A University Police officer dressed in plain clothes cited an18-year-old male student for drinking a can of beer as he exited theparty, Case said.

Neither student was on the guest list.

Olmstead said three bathroom windows were broken from peopletrying to climb in and get into the party.

“If they want in bad enough, they can get in,” he said.

Olmstead said two fraternity members caught someone breaking awindow trying to get in. They escorted him to an on-campus ATM so hecould take out money for the window. He tried to run away, but wasnabbed by a police officer. He gave the fraternity $60 for the brokenwindow.

Olmstead said underage drinkers binge drink before coming tofraternity parties because they know they will not be able to drinkat the party, causing them to drink too much too quickly.

Olmstead said there are always security guards to make sure peoplewho are under 21 do not bring alcohol onto the premise, and to turnthose away who are under 21 and look intoxicated. If minors are founddrinking once inside, their drink is taken from them and they areescorted out, he said.

Case said on Friday, Nov. 1 an 18-year-old female student attendeda party at the fraternity and drank bourbon. After returning to herresidence hall highly intoxicated, she was taken to Alvarado Hospitalby paramedics.

Olmstead said there was not a party at the fraternity that night,”just people hanging out,” as the majority of fraternity members wereat their Las Vegas formal. He said he was told the girl was at thehouse for up to 20 minutes and had stumbled in, drunk, looking for afraternity member. She was told the member was not there and thatthere was no partying going on.

“At that time she was out of sight,” he said. ” She went to thebathroom with one other friend for five minutes, there was no alcoholhere, I don’t know where she could have got this bourbon.”

Time out

The InterFraternity Council president, the judicial director andthe general judiciary board are meeting with Vice President ofStudent Affairs Jim Kitchen Friday to discuss enforcement ofuniversity policies regarding hazing and alcohol.

Case said he is waiting until that meeting before tackling howthese situations will be handled.

Case said this is the most cases of alcohol poisoning surroundingthe greek system he can recall since first coming to SDSU in 1978. Hesaid it may be due to better enforcement, better communication withresident hall advisors and more people reporting incidents.