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ADEs seek reinstatement
After over 2 years, underground new active class complicates
Adam Tutor
Issue date: 9/28/07 Section: News
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Over the course of the fall semester, members of the 2006 new active class that the Alpha Delta Epsilon (ADE) fraternity accepted while operating "underground" are engaging in conversation with Greek Council and Campus and Community Involvement (CCI) in an attempt to regain recognized status as a Greek organization.
"The question is this," said Coordinator for Greek Life and Service at CCI Katie Jundt, "the members of ADE did operate for a year underground and took new members, so should they be allowed to come back at the
time specified by the sanction?"
According to Jundt, in the spring of 2005, the Greek Council voted to permanently revoke the ADE's charter for violating six Greek policies: alcohol, calendar, six hours hands-off, hazing, dangerous conduct and dishonest
action policies. Whenever considering a decision such as charter revocation, the decision is appealed to higher authority.
"Dr. Gage Paine was the Vice President of Student Affairs at the time," Jundt said, "and she made the decision to bring the sanction down to only a three year revocation."
According to Jundt, Paine had set out some very specific guidelines in her memo to the fraternity regarding their appeal of the ADE charter's status.
According to this memo, during the period of the revocation, the fraternity "must have ceased to exist on campus" and is not allowed to take underground classes off-campus.
The sanction stated that conversations about the ADE's return to campus could begin with Greek Council in the 2007-2008 school year
and they could begin taking new members in spring 2009.
Jundt said she believes that if the ADEs were allowed to return in accordance
with the original sanction in spite of this violation of taking an underground class, the purpose of removing the fraternity from campus would not have been served.
"I don't agree that they should benefit from this because they did violate the sanction," Jundt said.
According to Senior Nat LaPier, one of the members of the former 2005 Pledge Class, the group had thoroughly discussed the idea of taking a pledge class against the sanction, and that in going through with it, they hoped to benefit a future generation of ADEs.
"The question is this," said Coordinator for Greek Life and Service at CCI Katie Jundt, "the members of ADE did operate for a year underground and took new members, so should they be allowed to come back at the
time specified by the sanction?"
According to Jundt, in the spring of 2005, the Greek Council voted to permanently revoke the ADE's charter for violating six Greek policies: alcohol, calendar, six hours hands-off, hazing, dangerous conduct and dishonest
action policies. Whenever considering a decision such as charter revocation, the decision is appealed to higher authority.
"Dr. Gage Paine was the Vice President of Student Affairs at the time," Jundt said, "and she made the decision to bring the sanction down to only a three year revocation."
According to Jundt, Paine had set out some very specific guidelines in her memo to the fraternity regarding their appeal of the ADE charter's status.
According to this memo, during the period of the revocation, the fraternity "must have ceased to exist on campus" and is not allowed to take underground classes off-campus.
The sanction stated that conversations about the ADE's return to campus could begin with Greek Council in the 2007-2008 school year
and they could begin taking new members in spring 2009.
Jundt said she believes that if the ADEs were allowed to return in accordance
with the original sanction in spite of this violation of taking an underground class, the purpose of removing the fraternity from campus would not have been served.
"I don't agree that they should benefit from this because they did violate the sanction," Jundt said.
According to Senior Nat LaPier, one of the members of the former 2005 Pledge Class, the group had thoroughly discussed the idea of taking a pledge class against the sanction, and that in going through with it, they hoped to benefit a future generation of ADEs.
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