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Sorority Accused Of Trashing Slavery Museum

By Associated Press May 14, 2010 11:50 am



OXFORD, Ohio — Miami University’s president has pledged a review of policies and punishments for campus fraternities and sororities after a second sorority was linked to destructive behavior at its spring formal, including vomiting and smoking inside a museum.

The second incident involving the southwest Ohio school to become public this week was at a Cincinnati museum focused on the Underground Railroad.

The Alpha Xi Delta sorority is facing a two-year suspension from the school because of the March 26 event at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Center officials also described excessive drinking and trashing of the dance floor and bathrooms.

The sorority is appealing the planned suspension.

Miami University’s Pi Beta Phi sorority has already been suspended for one year because of misconduct, including excessive and underage drinking, and damage at a local lakeside lodge.

Both sororities have been placed on probation by their national leadership.

A letter to the university from the Freedom Center alleged that Alpha Xi members and their dates vomited in different places, left the men’s bathroom with puddles of urine, dropped drinks onto the dance floor, and tried to steal bottles of boozes from the bar after many sneaked in their own alcohol in flasks or concealed in plastic bottles.

“Things went from bad to worse as the night progressed,” wrote Rhonda Miller, private event coordinator.

She caught one male apparently planning to urinate on an early 19th century slave pen exhibit

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