EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — In the aftermath of the decease of a Michigan State University pupil past weekend, the schoolhouse and the Pi Alpha Phi nationalist enactment person suspended the school’s section of the fraternity.
The student, identified arsenic Phat Nguyen, died aboriginal Saturday astatine a residence disconnected campus. An autopsy was conducted but the Office of the Medical Examiner astatine Sparrow Hospital said the origin of decease would not beryllium determined until toxicology results are completed successful six to 8 weeks. Authorities person said intoxicant depletion whitethorn person been a origin and soon aft the incidental the East Lansing Police Department said its officers had responded to the country wherever 4 radical were “passed out,” including 1 who was not breathing.
According to the Lansing State Journal, Nguyen’s decease came 1 time aft the fraternity posted connected its Facebook leafage that helium was 1 of 4 students who had conscionable joined the chapter.
University spokesperson Dan Olsen would lone accidental that the student’s decease “had a narration to the fraternity” arsenic an mentation arsenic to wherefore the schoolhouse had suspended the fraternity’s registered pupil enactment status. And successful an email, Pi Alpha Phi confirmed that the section had been “placed nether interim suspension pending probe upon the decease of a pupil subordinate past weekend.”
As a result, Olsen said the fraternity volition not beryllium allowed to big immoderate events connected campus, entree immoderate of its assemblage funds oregon accounts, instrumentality portion successful field events representing the section oregon enlistee students connected field to articulation the fraternity.
“We are heartbroken by this nonaccomplishment to our Spartan assemblage and our thoughts and prayers are with the student’s household and friends,” Olsen said.