University of Pennsylvania fraternity can resume activities after visitor’s fatal fall

    A three-month suspension has been lifted on the University of Pennsylvania’s Phi Kappa Sigma, or “Skulls,” frat. Operations were suspended earlier this year after a guest in the fraternity’s house fell to his death at a New Year’s Eve party.

     

    The Daily Pennsylvanian reports the suspension was lifted after a membership review by the Phi Kappa Sigma International Fraternity.

    But with the good news comes the bad for the frat. There is no 2011 pledge class, meaning the Skulls house will be pretty empty next year. The brothers say instead they’ll go after upperclassmen interested in becoming Skulls.

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