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FIU Suspends Pi Kappa Alpha Frat for Facebook Posts on Drug Dealing and Lewd Photos of Women

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Florida International University (FIU) has suspended its chapter of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity for a Facebook group that included posts requesting drugs, instances of hazing and other offensive material, the Miami Herald reported.

An anonymous sender distributed several screen shots from the Facebook page to media outlets and school administrators. The posts included members detailing hazing, which is against school policy, lewd photos of women frat brothers presumably dated - one post even mentioned the girls was 17 at the time - and several references to drug dealing.

"Anyone have a connect for coke," one group member wrote. "Not me, a friend wants, lol."

In another post, a member indicated he had Adderall for sale: 30mg of addy 10 starting tomorrow. 15 for non brothers."

Click here to see some of the screen shots distributed by the anonymous sender.

The Pi Kappa Alpha (Pike) national headquarters in Tennessee said in a statement they had no knowledge of the FIU chapter's Facebook page and were made aware of it on Tuesday.

"The international fraternity has been assured of the chapter's full compliance with the temporary suspension and subsequent investigation," the statement said.

FIU released its own statement Wednesday and said they would begin to investigate a possible breach of student code of conduct; also noting campus police are involved.

"The university is taking this information very seriously," the statement said, noting the anonymous email sparked the investigation. "As a result, the fraternity has been instructed to cease all meetings and events."

Posts also used condescending language against former classmates and used anti-gay slurs in reference to rival fraternities.

Susan Lipkins, a psychologist from Long Island and an expert on Greek life on campus, said schools often ignore bad behavior from frats and sororities because they help attract students to the school. She also said fraternity brothers and sorority sisters are more likely to donate money to the school post-graduation.

Lipkins said the FIU Facebook page represents the growing problem with Greek life.

"They are definitely not the exception," Lipkins said. "They are the rule."

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