{"id":19705,"date":"2015-04-16T18:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19705"},"modified":"2015-04-16T16:42:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T21:42:03","slug":"washburn-university-fraternity-suspended-over-text-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=19705","title":{"rendered":"Washburn University fraternity suspended over text messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) \u2014 A<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Washburn Univ<\/span>ersity fraternity has been suspended by its national leadership after sexually vulgar text messages between its members were discovered.<\/p>\n<p>The Topeka Capital-Journal reported (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1PT0928\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1PT0928<\/a> ) Phi Delta Theta International said<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> early Thursday it suspended the Washburn chapter as it investigates the messages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">University spokesman Patrick Early says the Office of Student Life was interviewing fraternity members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jessica Barraclough, the director of student activities and Greek life for Washburn, say the fraternity cannot host any events or participate in any university events during the suspension but members can still live at the house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Fraternity vice president Luke Warnken and president Jake Gregg told the Capital-Journal they wouldn&#8217;t comment until they spoke to their attorney and heard from chapter advisers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) \u2014 A Washburn University fraternity has been suspended by its national leadership after sexually vulgar text messages between its members were&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3397],"tags":[5711,307,5715,5712,5714,5710,5709,5708,5713],"class_list":["post-19705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-news","tag-early","tag-greek-life","tag-jake-gregg","tag-jessica-barraclough","tag-luke-warnken","tag-patrick","tag-phi-delta-theta","tag-washbrun-university","tag-washburn-greek-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19705"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19734,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19705\/revisions\/19734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}