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On Feb. 22, the Tulane University Kappa Sigma fraternity chapter was caught with $10,000 worth of narcotics. Now, the frat chapter is under scrutiny once again, this time for the theft of 2,000 copies of The Hullabaloo, Tulane’s newspaper.
Jason Polsky and Alexander Montiel, both Kappa Sigma pledges, reported to the Tulane University Police Department and confessed to being part of a Kappa Sigma plot to steal the newspapers. The frat had apparently ordered their pledges to hunt down every copy of The Hullabaloo and dispose of them, as the newspaper ran a front page story on the Feb. 22 drug bust.
A photograph shows Polsky and Montiel, both freshmen, throwing copies of The Hullabaloo into a recycling bin. Both pledges have since come forward and apologized for their behavior.
“I truly am sorry that your newspaper became the target of my frenzied rage, and I understand that I cost your independently run paper a good deal of money,” Polsky said. “For this I am sincerely sorry and would like to make it up to you in any way possible.”
Tulane’s Kappa Sigma chapter has now been suspended, with the international Kappa Sigma office and Tulane’s Student Conduct office set to investigate further.