Lambda Chi Alpha

Maria Young reports.

The WVU Police Department confirms it served search warrants at the Lambda Chi Alpha and the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternities as part of an ongoing investigation into allegations of hazing.

Samantha Smith, managing editor at the Daily Athenaeum, was in the student newspaper office when reports of the raid began surfacing online around 10 p.m. She grabbed her camera and headed to the scene.

It looked like a block party.

Overnight, officers from the WVU Police Department served search warrants as part of an ongoing alleged hazing investigation at two locations.

They hit the Lambda Chi Alpha house in the 600 block of North High Street.

They also hit the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house in the 100 block of Belmar Avenue.

There are social media accounts and videos of officers carrying items out of each location in evidence bags.

Due to the nature of the investigation, no additional details are being released.

However, we do know that back on October 9th, Lambda Chi Alpha was placed on interim suspension, and as far as we know here in the newsroom, Pi Kappa Alpha, they are a clean, registered fraternity there within the university community.

We'll keep an eye on that story and keep you updated as we learn more.

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Maria Young reports.

The WVU Police Department confirms it served search warrants at the Lambda Chi Alpha and the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternities as part of an ongoing investigation into allegations of hazing.

Samantha Smith, managing editor at the Daily Athenaeum, was in the student newspaper office when reports of the raid began surfacing online around 10 p.m. She grabbed her camera and headed to the scene.

It looked like a block party.

Well, I was very, I became involved in one of the fraternities on campus.

What fraternity was that? Lambda Chi, yes.

I've heard it said that

Lambda Chi is the best fraternity.

Is that

correct? I would agree.

He's our brother.

I'm actually wearing a Lambda Chi sweatshirt.

It was funny because last year I got a random postcard or something in the mail.

And it was like, yeah, you should call us and talk about this alumni gift.

Which fraternity?

Uh, Lambda Chi.

Yeah, Lambda Chi.

So we, we had, uh, um, great bonds-

Is that from-

... and great times.

Is that from Animal House? Were they Lambda Chi?

Uh, no. [laughs] Weren't they, like, Delta-

I always want to go, Johnson City, you know.

Yeah, he where he was a member of the ETSU Bluegrass Program and the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and graduated in 1990.

In 1989, he recorded a self-released demo album, Good Old Boy at Heart at the Classic Recording Studio in Bristol, Virginia.

He sold a thousand copies while performing at the local clubs in Johnson City and used the money from the album sales to help himself buy a new guitar.

Precious darling.

And it's the one that, this is the McDonald's that's right by the Lambda Chi house-

Uh-huh

... on Magnolia.

A fraternity on the West Virginia University campus in Morgantown has just a few more days to respond to a suspension handed down Friday following an allegation of hazing.

The Lambda Chi fraternity is accused of multiple violations of the WVU Student Code of Conduct, specifically the section that addresses hazing.

Members may not attend or host organized social functions as a chapter, and all recruiting and new member activities are immediately suspended until the allegations are addressed through a formal hearing or other disposition.

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