Fraternity Claims Religious Infringement In Refusal To Admit Its Return To Campus

Bloomberg.com reports today on a law suit filed against the University of Delaware by Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity. The Fraternity was banned from Delaware's campus 5 years ago for violating the University's code of conduct. Now, in a case filed in the Delaware Chancery Court, the Jewish fraternity claims that its free exercise of religion, as well as its free speech rights, are being violated by not allowing the group back on campus. The University claims that the fraternity will not be reinstated until at least 2009 because last October it held an illegal meeting seeking to recolonize. Richard McKaig, director of the Center for the Study of the College Fraternity, said he knows of no other case where a fraternity has attempted to be readmitted by claiming religious discrimination.