Judge: School can buy frat house where student fatally hurt
STATE COLLEGE, PA. -- Penn State can buy a former fraternity house where a student was fatally injured during a night of drinking and hazing, a judge has ruled.
Centre County Judge Brian Marshall gave the university and the Beta Theta Pi fraternity’s national chapter six months to negotiate a deal, the Centre Daily Times reported Thursday. The purchase price could be determined by arbitrators if the two can’t reach an agreement.
Marshall issued the ruling Tuesday, about two months after a three-day trial was held. A Penn State spokesperson said the university was “very pleased” with the decision, The university had cited a 1928 deed that it claimed gave the school the right to force the sale of the house because it’s no longer used as a fraternity.
Lawyers for the national fraternity did not immediately respond Thursday to a request for comment from the newspaper.
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(Gulfport Sun Herald)