>> Jennifer: FLORIDA STATE
UNIVERSITY HAS INDEFINITELY
SUSPENDED ALL GREEK LIFE AT THE
UNIVERSITY FOLLOWING DEATH OF PI
KAPPA PHI PLEDGE ANDREW
COIFFE HE DIED OF A POSSIBLE
ALCOHOL-RELATED DEATH FRIDAY
MORNING.
IN A SEPARATE CASE, GARRETT
MASKERSY, A PHI DEALT THAT THETA
MEMBER WAS CHARGED ON A DRUG
TRAFFICKING CHARGE YESTERDAY,
MEANING GREEK STUDENTS CAN NO
LONGER HOLDS EVENTS FROM NEW
CHAPTER DELETE S NEW EVENTS OR
CHAPTER MEETING AND AND A BAN ON
ALCOHOL AT STUDENT EVENTS.
JOINING ME THIS MORNING IS LOCAL
ATTORNEY JOHN PHILIPS.
GOOD MORNING TO YOU.
>> THANK YOU FOR JOINING US.
WHEN WE HEARD ABOUT ANDREW KOI'S
DEATH AND THE FACT HE WAS A
PLEDGE, THAT IT COULD BE
ALCOHOL-ERED LIGHTED.
IT HIT ALL OF US AS PATIENTS,
OURS ARE YOUNG AND THIS IS
SOMETHING I WORRY ABOUT NOW AND
MY SON IS ONLY 13.
FIRST OF ALL, AGAINST THE
UNIVERSITY, SHOULD, YOU KNOW, IS
THERE ENOUGH HERE BASED ON WHAT
YOU KNOW AND I KNOW WE NEED TO
NOSE MORE TO SUE THE UNIVERSITY
FOR NEGLIGENCE IN SOME WAY SHAPE
AND FORM.
>>> I THINK THERE ABSOLUTELY.
AT LEAST TO START THE PROCESS OF
A LAWSUIT.
YOU KNOW I WENT TO ALABAMA AND
IT HAS 1 OF THE BIGGEST GREEK
LIVES IN THE WORLD.
SO I KIND OF HAVE SOME INSIGHT
INTO SOME OF THIS STUFF THAT
GOES DOWN.
AND THE SCHOOLS DO KNOW ABOUT IT
AND THE GREEKS ARE THE ROWDIER
ONES BY TRADITION.
YOU'VE GOT THE REGULATE THAT AND
FLORIDA STATE, THE QUESTION IS,
DID THEY REGULATE IT PROPERLY OR
DID THEY LET THESE EVENTS HAPPE
WHERE ROWDY THINGS HAPPEN.
>>> AS AN EXAMPLE WE'RE SEEING
THIS PARTICULAR FRATERNITY HAD
BEEN IN TROUBLE BEFORE WITHIN
THE LAST FIVE YEARS ALSO.
THOSE NO DOUBT COULD BE
MITIGATING FACTORS AS YOU'RE
GOING THROUGH THIS.
LET'S TALK ABOUT THE OTHER
STUDENTS THAT MAY HAVE BEEN
INVOLVED IN PROVIDING ALCOHOL OR
HAD BEEN THERE WHEN ALCOHOL WAS
CONSUMED ASSUMING WHAT WE HEAR
IS CORRECT, COULD THEY FACE
LEGAL RAMIFICATIONS.
>> IT IS IRONIC THERE WAS ONE OF
THOSE CRIME SHOWS ON TV THAT
COVERED THIS VERY ISSUE AND
EVERYBODY WAS CHARGED.
THAT WAS AT THE EVENT WHERE THE
PERSON DIED.
THEY ACTUALLY ON THE TV SHOW
DIED FOR DROWNING AND NOBODY
SAVED THEM AND LEFT THEM ALONE,
AND IT IS WHERE FICTION FOLLOWS
TRUTH AND ANYBODY WHO PROVIDED
ALCOHOL, ANYBODY WHO WAS THERE
FOR A HAZING RITUAL, I STILL
CAN'TT STAND THE SMELL OF
SOUTHERN COMFORT BECAUSE OF THAT
BEING OVER FORCED ON ME.
AND IT IS TRAGIC.
THERE IS SO MUCH MORE WE NEED TO
KNOW, BLOOD ALCOHOL CONTENT AND
ALL OF THAT TO JUMP TO
CONCLUSION, BUT CERTAINLY
LIABILITY ON BOTH THE UNIVERSITY
FROM A CIVIL SIDE AND THE
INDIVIDUALS FROM BOTH A CIVIL
SIDE AND A CRIMINAL SIDE.
>>> A LOT OF THESE CASE NOT AN
IF BUT A WHEN.
WE SAW THE STUDENT TIMOTHY
PIAZZA AT PENN STATE SEVERAL
MONTHS AGO DRINKING TOO MUCH,
FELL DOWN A FLIGHT OF STAIRS AND
FRATERNITY BROTHERS ARE ACCUSED
OF PICKING HIM UP AND SITTING
THEM THERE AND HE DENDED UP
DYING AND NOW THEY'RE FOLLOWING
A SUIT WHICH FOLLOWS YOU AROUND,
PARTICULARLY IF THEY'RE
CONVICTED OF SOMETHING CRIMINAL.
IT LASTS WITH THEM FORKER.
>>> IT WILL LAST FOREVER IN 22
YEARS OLDS ARE MATURE BY
SOCIETAL STANDARDS BUT NOT IN
RELATION TO WISDOM.
YOU IS 18 TO 22 YEARS OLDS
MAKING THESE DECISION, TAKING
LIVES AND PUTTING THEM IN
JEOPARDY AND THAT IS A REAL
PROBLEM WITH THE FRATERNITY
ATMOSPHERE, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU
BRING IN THESE ARE THE FIRST
TIME THEY'RE AT HOME AND THEY'RE
AWAY FROM HOME AND ALCOHOL
INVOLVED, DRUGS INVOLVED AS
WE'VE SEEN, IT AS I WENT TO A
HOME GAME WITH MY FIVE-YEAR-OLD,
A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, I WAS
LIKE, WELL, MAYBE I NEED TO SEND
HIM TO A MORE SECURE
ENVIRONMENT, BECAUSE I JUST, YOU
KNOW, I'M GOING THE TRUST HE'S
GOING TO MAKE WISE DECISIONS BUT
PEER PRESSURE IS VERY REAL IN
THAT ENVIRONMENT.
>>> THAT IS THE THING, EVEN IF
YOU'RE CREATING A LEADER IN YOUR
CHILD WHEN THEY'RE YOUNG, YOU
DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GOING DO
TO DO WHEN THEY'RE SURROUNDED BY
15, 20 PEOPLE AND IT IS JUST
TOUGH.
I THINK IT IS WORTH NOBLE
THINKING ABOUT THE LEGAL
RAMIFICATIONS, BUT ALSO THE
MORAL, YOU KNOW, DECISIONS THAT
WE HAVE TO MAKE AS WE SENDS OUR
CHILDREN OFF AND TALK TO THEM