A fraternity at the University of Miami closed Friday after a video was released of an off-campus pool party in which members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity jumped and chanted about having sex with a dead woman.
“It made my skin crawl,” said a UM sorority sister who didn’t attend the pool party but was shown the video by her friends. I asked not to use it for the protection of
Popular with fraternity across the country, the song contains sexually explicit and rebellious lyrics about a woman dying from a fellatio. The Doyukai hosted a pool party, an event called “Adult Swim” after the adult cable channel of the same name. The party was at Coral’s home about 15 blocks west of his Gables campus.
Heather Matthews, spokeswoman for Sigma Phi Epsilon’s national headquarters, said Monday that her organization received information that a student had violated policies and acted outside the boundaries of the fraternity’s values. .
“We expect the SigEp Chapter to provide its members and campus community with a safe and supportive environment. We take this seriously and will hold our chapter to that standard,” the statement said.
She didn’t say exactly what policies or boundaries the fraternity brothers violated or the values they deviated from.
UM spokeswoman Jacqueline Menendez declined to say whether the pool party video led to the fraternity being kicked off campus. He said he did not answer Herald’s questions about the video.
Sigma Phi Epsilon has been in college since 1949. According to an article in the Miami Herald Archives, his UM branch of Sigma Phi Epsilon closed in 1993 when he was four years old. Menendez said he could not comment on events at that time because he said his college records only go back to his 1998.
“Madhouse”: Neighbors Call the Cops
The pool party was the first major off-campus party held by Sigma Phi Epsilon since the pandemic. The afternoon meeting on Saturday, October 1, was held at his large ranch-style home on the 7100 block on SW 62nd Street, not far from the UM campus.
It quickly became noisy and neighbor Garrett Flake called the police. He lives in a house on the corner across from our house. This home sits on a large lot with a pool and basketball court in the backyard. No one answered the door to the house on Monday.
“I called the law and said, ‘This is a madhouse, so everybody needs to come and shut it down,'” Flake said. “The girls were urinating in the garden of the house. The music was very loud and the streets were blocked by cars.”
Multiple cars are usually in and out of the house, Flake said. He believes the house was sold to investors and rented out to UM students. The home is owned by a Wyoming holding company, according to Miami-Dade County real estate records.
In the video, the frat brothers who hosted the party sang a sexually explicit song about a woman dying while giving a blowjob. We dig her up from time to time. we fuck her again
At least one version of the song involves a boy having sex with a woman, dying while giving her a fellatio, then digging up her body and committing necrophilia or having sex with her corpse. increase.
student newspaper UM, Miami Hurricanes first reported news on SundayIn its article, the newspaper said that girls who attended the party noticed a white substance in their drinks, and the girls there suspected they were being drugged.
The girls featured in the Hurricane story did not say they believed they had been sexually abused.Both Coral Gables and the University of Miami police were aware of the story, but as of Monday afternoon It said it had not been contacted by anyone about possible wrongdoing.
“We moved very quickly”
A video circulating around the campus shows a group of men holding cans and having a party in the backyard of a house, with two giant inflatable slides and a bounce house in the background. has a black sign for Adult Swim. One of her fraternity members exclaims that they own the school.
Menendez said the university received the video on Friday morning and immediately issued a disciplinary order to the local fraternity chapter to cease operations.The tape was also forwarded to the fraternity’s national headquarters, she said. I was. The national headquarters suspended branches on Friday afternoon, Menendez said.
“We moved very quickly. We got the video. rice field.
Patricia Whiteley, UM’s senior vice president of student affairs and partial oversight of Greek life at South Florida’s largest private university, said in a written statement that the fraternity chapter is “a policy of the university. violated and participated in behavior contrary to the university’s values and expectations.” The university community and its national fraternity. “
“We have partnered with Sigma Phi Epsilon for 73 years and support their decision to end this chapter immediately,” Whitely wrote.
Ethan Robbins, president of UM’s Interfraternity Council, declined to comment on Monday.
Reactions on campus Monday afternoon ranged from “disgusting” to “disgusting” to “that’s SigEp’s notorious reputation.” They met at the Mary B. Merritt Panhellenic Building on his UM’s Coral Gables campus. There he has offices in most of UM’s Greek organizations. they have no home.
Upstairs, no one answered a knock on Sigma Phi Epsilon’s red door.
Miami Herald staff members Monica Leal and Tes Riski contributed to this report.
