The university’s Interfraternity Council also suspended all N.C. State fraternity activities involving alcohol Friday until further notice. The council said in a statement that it will help refocus the Greek community on the behavioral standards they are supposed to uphold.
The council, in conjunction with the university’s administrators, has plans to issue additional training to students in areas like diversity, inclusion and social justice.
Photos of the book’s contents posted by WRAL revealed comments such as “Dude if she’s hot enough, doesn’t need a pulse.”
Mike Mullen, N.C. State’s vice chancellor, who described the notebook’s contents as “deeply troubling,” said in a statement these changes are necessary to ensure that the Greek system exceeds the council’s standards.
Pi Kappa Phi’s national organization called the language in the book “reprehensible and unacceptable” and has sent staff to Raleigh to participate in the ongoing investigation by the university.
The N.C. State incident is one of several recent situations to make the news involving fraternities nationwide. It comes just two weeks after the viral spread of a video documenting a racist chant that had connections to the University of Oklahoma’s Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter and led to the fraternity’s dismissal from the university.
Since Thursday night, the Twitter and Facebook pages for N.C. State’s Pi Kappa Phi have been deleted, and its website no longer lists members’ names. The chapter’s phone is also no longer in service.
Justine Schnitzler, a sophomore at N.C. State, said people on campus weren’t necessarily surprised a fraternity scandal occurred, but students have been shocked by the content of the messages. Still, Schnitzler said the situation probably won’t have tremendous effects on the Greek community.
