Break-in raises questions
Sept. 7, 2007
An MU junior was arrested on suspicion of second-degree burglary and theft from the Beta Sigma Psi fraternity house and driving while intoxicated in the early morning of Sept. 3, according to Missouri court documents.
Trell Thomas Edington, 21, was released on $21,000 bond the next day.
Edington is a member of Kappa Alpha Order fraternity, but Interfraternity Council spokesman Jeff Beeson said the crime had nothing to do with the relationship between the fraternities.
"He just happened to be a member of a fraternity," Beeson said. "(The fraternities) are not rivals, they don't hate each other. Their presidents are good friends."
Beta Sigma Psi President Anthony Zehnle said it was not an inter-fraternity issue.
"Beta Sigma Psi is working with the parties involved in order to resolve the issue," he said in an e-mail. "We feel that this was an individual's mistake and his organizational affiliation holds no bearing."
Kappa Alpha President Jeff Baird said the incident did not reflect on the fraternity as a whole.
"It was an individual acting as an individual," he said.
Beeson said IFC will review police records before deciding whether to take action, but he thinks that discipline will be left to the fraternity and police.
"It's not an MU issue," he said. "It's more of a legal issue."
Beeson said the attempted theft raised questions about the security of fraternity houses, which are on public property and therefore not patrolled by university police.
"This is something that doesn't happen," he said. "It's not like fraternities get broken into all the time."
He said Edington's arrest showed the security of fraternity houses is effective.
"It doesn't look like there's an issue because someone tried and got caught," he said.
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