A group of Rutgers University fraternity brothers served a punch spiked with Xanax at a campus mixer _ drugging several sorority sisters, according to new documents.
About 10 Sigma Delta Tau sorority members suffered bouts of vomiting, incoherence and blackouts after a September soiree at a Sigma Chi frat house, according to records obtained by the school paper, the Daily Targum.
Numerous sorority sisters reported that the punch served in an orange athletic container had a "chalky" texture and tasted "funny," the report says.
Within a few hours, some Sigma Delta Tau members who had consumed as little as a half a cup started feeling woozy.
One sorority sister was "so out of it" that she lost her phone. It wasn't until the next day that she found it behind a tree near the party, the report says.
Another Sigma Delta Tau member suffered a negative reaction after the spiked punch interfered with her prescribed medication, the report says.
"A lot of sisters got really sick off of a minimal amount of alcohol and blacked out," one Sigma Delta Tau member told the school paper.
The Daily Targum uncovered the incident after filing an open records request in November when Rutgers shut down the frat for unspecified reasons.
Rutgers University spokesman John Cramer didn't immediately return a request for comment.
But he told the Newark Star Ledger that the university reached an agreement with the national Sigma Chi fraternity to suspend the Rutgers chapter following an "investigation into reports of policy violations."
"All operations and activities of the chapter are terminated until August 2020, after which the national organization may consider establishing a chapter with new members, without the involvement of suspended members," Cramer said.
"In addition, the Sigma Chi national organization agreed to directly inform all members still on campus that, for the remainder of their undergraduate careers at Rutgers, they must cease any and all fraternity activity."
The anonymous Sigma Delta Tau sister quoted by the Daily Targum told the paper that the sorority had a long-standing relationship with Sigma Chi.
"We used to mix with Sigma Chi a lot," the source said. "We had a lot of important mixers with them, like our big/little mixer, so as a sorority we were pretty comfortable with the fraternity. Then one night, at a mixer the weekend of Sept. 16, they put Xanax in the juice."
