Chi Phi Report Timeline

Chi Phi

incident timeline
Group text chat ranged throughout this time period
Member
to New Member
Reported
activities including Eye of Chi Phi, Paddle Ceremony, Tubestroker, feeding
candy canes and bread to pledges
Date of incident where NM
was injured
Incident reporting and investigation timeline
Wed., Dec. 17, 2014
Dean of Students notified of injury and began investigation
Tues., Jan. 20, 2015
CSO Report submitted (no school days passed between Dean of Students receiving and CSO
report)
Wed., Jan. 21, 2015
CSO Initial letter sent to Chi Phi (sent to
)
Mon., Jan. 26, 2015
New Member
interviewed by Steve Rogers
Tues., Jan. 27, 2015
New Member
interview by Steve Rogers
Wed. Jan. 28, 2015
New Member
interviewed by Steve Rogers
Fri. Jan. 30, 2015
New Member
interviewed by Steve Rogers
Mon. Feb. 2, 2015
New Member
interviewed by Steve Rogers
Thur. Feb. 5, 2015
New Member
interviewed by Kipp Cox learned of allegations of Eye of Chi Phi
among others, shared group text messages This new information was then shared with investigator Steve Rogers
Thur. Feb. 5, 2015
New Member
interviewed by Steve Rogers story beginning to change
Fri. Feb. 6, 2015
Active Members
interviewed by Steve Rogers
Sat. Feb. 7, 2015
Active Members
interviewed by Steve Rogers
Mon. Feb. 9, 2015
Active Member
interviewed by Steve Rogers
Tues. Feb. 10, 2015
Active Members
interviewed by Steve Rogers
Wed. Feb. 11, 2015
Active Members
interviewed by Steve Rogers
Tues., Feb. 17, 2015
CSO Notice to Appear sent to Chi Phi (sent to
)
Tues. Feb. 17, 2015
sent letter to Eric Knueve about how chapter was responding
Wed. Feb. 18, 2015
interviewed by Kipp Cox
Mon. Feb. 16, 2015
Reinterview with New Member
by Kipp Cox

Mon. Feb. 23, 2015

Associate Dean of Students Kevin Helmkamp and TJ Sargent met with all pledges and gave them
24 hours to notify the university if they would like to amend their previous statement as we believed that most of these
statements were not completely truthful
Tues. Feb. 24, 2015
15 new members and 4 active members contacted the university to amend their statement. 1 new
member and 1 active member finally responded to request for initial interview.

New Member

Allegations and supporting information

Allegation #1 Member
targeted New Member

Affirmed in interview - Member

said in interview with Steve Rogers that New
Member
was around the house all the time as a pledge. Member
said in
retrospect letting Member
handle the coffin for New Member
was not a
good decision in the end.

Affirmed in group text - Member

states in a group text 6 biggest guys on
[New Member
lets rock him

Affirmed in group text - Member

states in a group text Only evidence I have
against [New Member
] is sorority girls hate him and he stole my slam for
the date party and made her cry. Real class act.

Confirmed in group text - Member

states in a group text after sharing that
various sororities did not like Chi Phi because of [New Member
], We need
to educate him to the ends of the earth.

Confirmed in group text - Member

states in group text, Really I just want him
[New Member
to suffer.

Confirmed in group text - Member

states in group text, Its not even funny
how dead [New Member
] is and how much he screwed me over.

Affirmed in group text - Member

stated in group text, [New Member
] is
getting hazed so hard

Confirmed - Member
caused major injuries to [New Member
] during the
coffin incident.
Allegation #2 Member
was drunk at time of injury

Affirmed in group text - Said to [New Member

] by another member after
[New Member
] was injured, In his [Member ] defense, he is really
drunk.

Affirmed in interview - Member

stated in his interview that some members
not in the best state of mind when various comments in group text were
written,

Confirmed in interview - From

interview with Steve Rogers,
] observed that [Member
and the other older members who were
with the pledges on Friday night were drinking beer.

Confirmed in interview -
stated in interview to Steve Rogers, on
the Saturday of initiation, [
] said he was aware that [Member ]
was drinking, but only beer

In additional statement, New Member

shared that he thought some of the
active members were drinking [on Saturday], and there was alcohol available at
the house
Allegation #3 Injured during ritual with coffin

Confirmed - All those present indicated that the coffin was used for ritual with a
lid 17 new members and 11 active members

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Confirmed - All confirmed that [New Member

] was injured by [Member ]
stepping or stomping on the coffin. In conversation with the National Office who
had seen the coffin, it would have taken great force to break the coffin.
Confirmed through interviews - Active members wore masks during the coffin
ceremony.
Confirmed through interviews - Coffin ceremony has been part of ritual as far
back as Spring 2011, which was shortly after the group came back to campus.

Allegation #4 From Thursday through Saturday had to go to house and could only leave
for class (accompanied by an active member). Laptop and Cell phones were taken away.

Affirmed in interviews - Interviews of new members indicate that all new

members stayed at house on Friday night. One description said that they were
strongly encouraged to stay at the house on Friday night

New Member
stated that when arrived at the House that all cell phones and
laptops were taken away from the pledges

New Member
had asked permission to go to
and was denied.

After February 23, 2015 and by the time the packet was created, 4 new members
confirmed that this occurred. New Member
shared in his amended statement,
cell phones and watches were not available at any point Thurs./Fri./Sat.
Allegation #5 Made to sleep in attic in tight space

Confirmed in interviews - After showing pictures of attic 2 new members

confirmed sleeping in the attic

Confirmed in interviews - Active members confirmed that pledges slept in attic

Picture of attic space where pledges were confirmed to have slept

Affirmed in group text where, Student

states, Give them bins to poop and per
in and they cant leave the attic.

In 2nd interviews with new members after Feb. 23 meeting, confirmation that
pledges were forced to sleep in the attic behind some orange fencing.
Allegation #6 Only given oatmeal to eat and overall limited food and water

Confirmed in interviews - Many new members describe eating oatmeal on

Saturday morning, while a couple stated that they went elsewhere for food

Affirmed in text where Member

states, Obviously saying eat this oatmeal
dont insult
and his dream to go to culinary school isnt meant to scare
them.

Confirmed in interview with

where he states that a loaf of bread and
candy canes were all that were given to pledges on Friday night to eat.

In 2nd interviews with new members after Feb. 23 meeting, confirmed that we
forced to eat unpalatable oatmeal on Thursday and Friday nights
Allegation #7 Member
took New Member
unpalatable food at Gordon Commons

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and other pledges and made eat

Confirmed by another new members that they were required to eat cereal with
some hot spices in it
Affirmed in text Member
stated, I had to remake his Gordons surprise that
ungrateful shit.
Confirmed in second interviews with new members after Feb. 23 meeting

Allegation #8 New Member

placed in a hood for 8 hours on Saturday

confirmed that he had knowledge of new members being hooded

prior to the coffin ritual.

In second interviews with new members after Feb. 23 meeting, confirmed that
pledges were hooded on Friday night in between and during activities, including
during eye of chi phi; also confirmed being hooded on Saturday before
which started around 1pm
Allegation #9 Pledges were given
alcohol

Affirmed in text where Member

states, Just made [New Member
]
shotgun a 4Loko. 4Loko is an alcoholic drink.
also states, He beat you
[Member ] and you had a beer mr big shot.

Confirmation from New Member

in
interview on 2/16/15.

In second interviews with new members after Feb. 23 meeting, confirmed that
the 20 pledges were forced to consume 60 beers in an allotted time frame. And
confirmed on Friday night that they were required to participate in Beer
Olympics with active members

In second interviews with new members after Feb. 23 meeting, confirmed that
. Some declined due to health
concerns.
Allegation #10 Pledges were forced to drink out of a tubestroker (a male sex toy)

Confirmation by New Members

that there was a tubestroker both
denied that they drank from it

In second interviews with new members after Feb. 23 meeting, confirmed that
pledges were asked to drink from the sex toy
Allegation #11 New Member
had to bring coffee to Member
and others

Affirmed in group text exchanged Member

states, Do pledges deliver to
the lib? Member
responds, [New Member
] does.

Affirmed in group text exchanged unidentified person states, Tell [New

Member
] I need some coffee.
responds, Too late he just got here
with a ton and its gone. Unidentified person responds, Tell him to go back.

Affirmed in group text exchanged unidentified person states, Gotta love [New
Member
s dedication. 1:00 in the morning and hes still here. Member
responds, Hell be back at 8:45am with a coffee for me too. Member
then
states, I have a personal beef with him and he literally texts me when do you
want your next coffee

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In second interview with New Member

required to deliver coffee

, confirmed that some pledges were

Allegation #12 Pledges were forced to do line ups

Affirmed in text where Member

states, Thats what I was trying to do. Idk
about you but couldnt stop laughing during line ups and then got shit for it. I
dont know what youre talking about. Next one from Member
Obviously
saying eat this oatmeal dont insult
and his dream to go to culinary school
isnt meant to scare them.

In second interview with new members after the Feb. 23 meeting, confirmed
that pledges were forced to do line ups. One new member described these as
asked to recite ridiculous information, yelled at, pushups, or mean looks if they
did not answer correctly. These were confirmed to occur Thursday night, Friday
night and Saturday morning right after the pledges woke up.
Allegation #13 Eye of Chi Phi Pledges forced to participate in an event where they are
blindfolded after seeing an active member with his pants down and then asked to stick
their finger in the active members anus. Then actually have them stick their finger in a jar
of Nutella. New Member
stated that pledges were so shaken up that they were crying
during this incident

Confirmed by
in interview with Steve Rogers. From Rogers
interview, He
] knew, in general, that it [Eye of Chi Phi] had to do
with fooling the pledges into believing theyd be touching someones butt, when
they would really touch something else (he confirmed Nutella by nodding).

Confirmed by 2 active members that they had participated in something similar

but not as bad when they were initiated.

Confirmed by

] was present for eye of chi phi incident.

Tried to minimize, not fully disclose, but eventually admitted incident happened
as described (see above). Said jar was of peanut butter and that multiple
members had taken turns holding it. Said the active with his pants down was
].

Affirmed when unidentified person in group text states, The guy [New Member
] pulled out a condom on his feet for eye of chi phi. Thats an impressive
fucking feat thinking on his feet.

Confirmed in 2/23/15 interview with Member

Confirmed in new member meetings after Feb. 23.

Allegation #14 Members tried to come up with a cover story when [New Member
was injured.

Affirmed from group chat Student

states, Just curious, whats [New
Member
]s story for the ER?
Allegation #15 Alumni
said something to the effect of regarding the incident,
this is one of those things where you have to make up a story and stick with it.

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New Member
stated in an interview with Steve Rogers that he did not
remember specifically what was said by alumna beyond it was unfortunate, that
those attending made sure NM
was ok, it was unintentional and the chapter
should not let anything like this happen again.
New Member
stated in an interview with Steve Rogers that he thought
[Alumni
touched briefly on the incident and said it was an unfortunate
circumstance.
New Member
stated in an interview with Steve Rogers that he remembered
[Alumni
talking about the incident at a recent chapter meeting.
[Alumni
touched on the incident and said the members should take
it in stride and learn from the experience.
New Member
confirmed that an alumna spoke and said the alumnas
message was to learn from this and not to let it happen again.
Others remembered only the alumna talking about scholarships and additions to
the chapter house.

Allegation #16 During the fall semester [Member

had [New Member
and another
pledge named [New Member
steal street signs.
nd

In 2 interview with Assistant Dean Cox on 2/16/15, New Member

denied
stealing signs

In interview with Member

on 2/23/15, Member
confirmed that New
Member
had stolen street signs.
Other Allegations
Allegation #1 Group text chat would indicate an intent to haze new members by the
leadership and members of Chi Phi

Confirmed in interview with

that new members were forced to
participate in eye of chi phi activity. Also confirmed that pledges given only a
loaf of bread and candy canes to eat on Friday at the house. Finally, states that he
had knowledge of pledges being hooded and in rooms waiting for ceremony.

National Offices investigation confirmed everything that was in the initial report
had happened as reported except possibly the wasabi in the oatmeal.

Confirmed in interview with

that eye of chi phi activity did
occur but
was not there at the time. Instead, he was getting the
attic ready.

Confirmed in interview with Member

Regarding the eye of chi phi,
[Member
said that in his 2013 pledge class they had experienced something
similar but not as bad as what this years pledges apparently experienced.
Allegation #2 Member
to New Member

Member
to New Member
according to a
.

Member
is no longer a student at this institution

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