East Bay Express Dishes Juicy Gossip on Pi Kappa Phi
[I try and make an effort to avoid reporting all sorts of baseless rumors here on CalStuff, but if some other source does the reporting, I'm more than happy to pass on a link so you all can see what folks are talking about.]

The East Bay Express has an article (Tale of Two Animal Houses) comparing the trouble facing Pi Kappa Phi and Le Chateau. What's interesting is the Pi Kapp's are portrayed as fighters unwilling to give up their house and way of life without a struggle, while the Co-op kids are shown as dejected victims who all but gave up on defending themselves.

What's even more interesting is all the information printed about the Pi Kappa Phi house:
1. Questionable sexuality:

A gaudy Coors sign hangs in the bedroom above the entrance to Pi Kappa Phi, the UC Berkeley fraternity whose charter was recently suspended after three members were fingered in a hazing stunt involving a young man in his underwear, a BB gun, and a big, danky spliff. Which brings us to our second eternal truth: That is so gay.

2. Adam Guthrie is an entirely inappropriate person (not that there is anything wrong with that):

But the most extroverted Pi Kapp is undoubtedly Adam Guthrie, who in 2003 pulled a double shift while a Daily Californian columnist, covering both the coozehound and the boozehound beat.

3. And the Pi Kapp's are allegedly quite terrible neighbors:

Everyone gets drunk and noisy on occasion, but according to Anti and Gonsalez, the Pi Kapps take it to another level, throwing toilets and junk into the Alpha Delts' pool, banging on their door after midnight and calling them out, or sneaking into other frats and trashing the rooms of random people. At least three times this semester, they said, someone has vandalized or stolen their cars after Pi Kapp parties, and fistfights between Pi Kapps and other fraternities are common...

So far, this is still just kid stuff. But Anti makes another, more serious claim. Before joining the Alpha Delts, he rushed the Pi Kapp house, where he learned that his brothers would kick the shit out of him as a final test. "I was informed that at some point, members would beat on pledges and jump them in," he says. "I've seen it, in their backyard."

The Alpha Delts have a clear view of Pi Kapp's barbecue deck from their house. It was here, Anti says, that he watched four or five Pi Kapps jump a pledge last semester, beating on him while he covered up and fell to the ground. "They were up on the deck, just whaling on a kid one day," Anti says. "Their house is known as a fighting house."

I'm sure the two IFC officers who are in Pi Kappa Phi have all the credibility in the world when they sit down with Dean Kenney to discuss reforms in the Greek Community.Email This Post!