An umbrella organization has booted a Boulder fraternity after pledges trashed an Estes Park hotel room last month.
The Interfraternity Council expelled the Delta Chi chapter three days after University of Colorado chancellor G.P. “Bud” Peterson “strongly recommended” that it be closed immediately in a letter to the executive director of Delta Chi Fraternity.
“It’s a significant act on their part,” Bronson Hilliard, a CU spokesman, said of the council’s action.
Nine would-be fraternity members attending the University of Colorado at Boulder were arrested Feb. 17 after police say they heavily damaged an Estes Park hotel room used in a bonding session.
Estes Park police responded at 2:30 a.m. to the Super 8 Motel and found a loud party which included a beer keg and bottles of liquor.
Police said ceiling fans in the room had been ripped apart, lamps were destroyed and shower curtains from both of the unit’s bathrooms had been torn off. The television in the room was found face down.
The pledges face charges of underage drinking and criminal mischief. The destruction, estimated at more than $1,000, is a felony.
Peterson, in his letter to Delta Chi executive director Ray Galbreth, said he is “very concerned about the welfare of our students” and it was fortunate that “no one was seriously injured in this latest incident.”
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com
