With Sigma Chi's suspension from Ohio University due to end in September 2006, the fraternity is working on settling economic matters.
Sigma Chi owes OU four utility bills from 2003 for steam and DSL services. The bills totaled $3,276.63 because of a glitch in the university billing system. John Burns, OU director of legal affairs, said he expects payments of the bills to be due sometime in July.
Claire Ball, Sigma Chi adviser and an Athens attorney, said that the bills will be paid come July. We have been doing fine
he said.
Ball said continued alumni discussion and support are helping Sigma Chi toward recolonization.
He had no comment on how money is being raised for the bills and the $300,000 loan Sigma Chi owes to Columbus Bank. He said that the future of Sigma Chi is looking good, and that it always has.
Now we are just waiting for time to go by Ball said.
In November 2002, 15 members of the Sigma Chi chapter of OU were arrested on charges of underage consumption and destruction of property to the old Athens Recreation Center.
A five-year suspension was put into effect by President Robert Glidden, which was lowered to
3 years after Sigma Chi filed an appeal on the decision. Glidden, in a letter to Sigma Chi president Adam Nagle, said the decision provided a more reasonable opportunity [for Sigma Chi] to return to the Ohio University community as a positive and effective member of the Greek Life community.
John Burns and the Office of Legal Affairs are helping Sigma Chi's recolonization and what Burns calls the ultimate goal: restarting with a different group of students.
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