![]() ![]() ZBT is prohibited from hosting activities and cannot recruit new members during the investigation or disciplinary process, Hradsky said. as a response to questions about the video. The dean’s Sunday statement was sent to The D.O. Saturday email to “David Tesher” was sent to The D.O., the email linked to IFC recruitment and the following officials in SU’s Board of Trustees office: Lisa Dolak, Rachel Harms, Ally Mead, Tressa Sobotka, Brooke Wears and James Zullo. While on investigative status, ZBT is prohibited from hosting activities and cannot recruit new members during the investigation or disciplinary process, Hradsky said. Wiener, in a text message, said the investigative status “is due to a physical altercation by a member prior to school even starting and has NOTHING to do with any sort of ‘hazing’ activity.” The recent investigative status change at ZBT was not related to the video, Hradsky added. Alleged conduct that occurred “last week” led to that investigation, Hradsky said Sunday in the statement to The D.O. In a Saturday night email from Hradsky, responding to the initial email from “David Tesher,” the dean also said “similar alleged behavior” has since been brought to the university’s attention and ZBT has been placed under “investigative status,” a sanction separate from the disciplinary probation. Hradsky confirmed in an email Monday that the video led to ZBT’s disciplinary probation. “the (sic) information is false, (sic) proven false by the university (OSRR).” “That video was from an investigation last year where we were found innocent,” Wiener said in another set of text messages. that the video was shown to SU, but said “we have been dropped of charges from it.” Matthew Wiener, a junior in the School of Information Studies and ZBT’s president, acknowledged in a Monday text message to The D.O. SU’s chapter of ZBT is on disciplinary probation until December 2018. Hradsky said SU’s Department of Public Safety investigated the video and “charges were filed for violating the Code of Student Conduct.” ZBT is on disciplinary probation through December 2018 as a result of that investigation, Hradsky said. “I am afraid someone will get hospitalized or die within the next year if this major infraction of the Syracuse University Student Conduct Code is not addressed,” said the email from “David Tesher.” ![]() The Saturday email from “David Tesher” was sent to The D.O., Chancellor Kent Syverud, an email account linked to the “Syracuse University IFC Fraternity Recruitment” page and six officials in the university’s Board of Trustees office. “No idea what you’re talking about,” Tescher wrote. on Sunday, Tescher said he did not send the Saturday email. “Membersof (sic) the house ask pledges to ‘open up’ as they forcibly spit in potential members mouths,” said “David Tesher” in the message.ĭavid Tescher, whose name is spelled differently than the username of the individual who sent the Saturday email, is a current ZBT member and SU student, according to his LinkedIn profile. The individual who sent the email and video Saturday had the username “David Tesher.” The video was first brought to the university’s attention in spring 2018, Hradsky said. ![]() on Sunday, Hradsky said it’s believed that the video is from spring 2015. The clothes of both people laying on the floor appear to be soaked with liquid. Near the end of the video, another person lies down on the floor. Then, the person holding the mop appears to spit into the open mouth of the person laying on the floor while other people talk, yell and laugh in the background. That person in the video twists the mop on the other person’s face before removing it. Saturday, an individual claiming to be a former ZBT member attached an eight-second video that shows a person laying on a wet floor while another person covers their face with a mop. and several SU administrators just before 5:45 p.m. Syracuse University’s chapter of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity was put on disciplinary probation after SU investigated behavior that included ZBT members spitting into potential members’ mouths, Dean of Students Robert Hradsky confirmed in an email to The Daily Orange on Sunday. ![]()
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