MIAMI — A week after a fraternity got kicked off the University of Miami campus for chanting at a pool party about having sex with a dead woman, the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity brothers apologized Friday for the misogynistic lyrics and denied allegations of drugged drinks.
“The brothers of the former Florida Gamma Chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon are deeply sorry for the chant prior to the October 1st event,” they said in a statement provided to the Herald about the Oct. 1 pool party that led to the national board suspending the UM chapter last Friday. “Repeating this chant was wholly inappropriate, reprehensible, and does not represent who we are. We apologize in the strongest possible terms to anyone hurt by the lyrics or our actions.”
The fraternity brothers denied accusations that they were drugging women’s drinks. The Miami Hurricane, the student newspaper that broke the story Sunday of the fraternity suspension, ran a video of the chanting and quoted a student, using only her first name, who said she attended the party. She said she and her friends “had like white powder” in their drinks and suspected they were being drugged, although they were not certain and did not get sick or pass out. Another woman, also identified only by her first name, said she had heard similar accounts through her sorority’s group chat.
