text: Florida International University has suspended its Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity chapter after a private Facebook page maintained by the group became very public. 
   
   An anonymous email sent to multiple media outlets and university administrators included screenshots of about 70 posts from the page  some of them offering to sell drugs, others boasting about hazing new members, which is prohibited by university policy. 
   
   Anyone have a connect for coke, one group member wrote. Not me, a friend wants, lol. 
   
   In another post, someone offers to sell the prescription stimulant Adderall, which is often abused by college students as a study aid: 30mg of addy 10 starting tomorrow. 15 for non brothers. 
   
   Another announces on campus for those of you looking for the Pike Pharmacy  and included his phone number. A man who answered at that number Wednesday confirmed his first name matched that of the Facebook post, but he then quickly hung up. 
   
   On the FIU Pike chapters official public Facebook page, a contact number is listed, but no one answered repeated calls Wednesday. 
   
   In a brief written statement, the Pike fraternitys national headquarters in Tennessee said it had no previous knowledge of this Facebook group and was informed of its existence on Tuesday. 
   
   The international fraternity has been assured of the chapters full compliance with the temporary suspension and subsequent investigation, according to the statement. 
   
   FIU released its own statement Wednesday, saying it was recently made aware of the postings and is investigating possible violations of the universitys code of student conduct. The universitys on-campus police are also involved, FIU said. 
   
   The university is taking this information very seriously As a result, the fraternity has been instructed to cease all meetings and events, FIU wrote. A university spokesperson said it was the anonymous email that sparked FIUs investigation. 
   
   Among the Facebook screenshots are several showing photos of topless women who were apparently dating Pike members. In one, someone writes that the girl was 17 years old at the time. 
   
   Other posts belittle classmates. Rival fraternities are repeatedly described using anti-gay slurs, and members of one sorority are described as the biggest sluts on campus. 
   
   The Facebook posts also frequently criticize women whom the frat members perceive as overweight. Several posters stressed that Pikes were only allowed to sell fraternity-affiliated T-shirts to thin women. 
   
   And some posts appear to take pride in unsportsmanlike conduct during soccer games against other fraternities. One post notes the Pike team has been losing points in the soccer league because of its lack of sportsmanship  particularly in heckling players from the opposing team. But the writer notes that sportsmanship points only become a factor in the case of a tie breaker, so they can safely be ignored. 
   
   Since we are not going to lose any games, then we dont need that tie-breaker, he wrote. 
   
   This weeks suspension is but the latest round of discipline for a fraternity that has repeatedly gotten in trouble  both locally and nationally. The FIU chapter was already on probation from an incident in June involving serving alcohol to a pledge. Since 2006, Pike has been found guilty of a variety of offenses: underage drinking, conducting drinking games, throwing eggs at a rival fraternitys house and breaking a students car windshield while also painting obscene words and pictures on the vehicle. 
   
   The penalties leveled against Pike have included suspensions, community service hours, and requiring the fraternity to make a $1,500 donation to Mothers Against Drunk Driving. 
   
   At the University of Tennessee, a student ended up in the hospital last year in critical condition after participating in a butt-chugging party at UTs Pike house. Students there were inserting a tube in their anus and then funneling in alcoholic beverages  a practice that can be deadly. 
   
   Susan Lipkins, a Long Island psychologist and author who is an expert on hazing and Greek organizations, said universities often turn a blind eye to the misbehavior of these groups. The reasons, Lipkins said: Fraternities and sororities create an atmosphere that helps colleges attract new students, and Greek students tend to be more generous in donating to their alma mater after graduation. The construction of frat houses also provides colleges with extra on-campus housing that they need, she said. 
   
   The Facebook posts at FIU, Lipkins said, reflect larger problems with the culture of Greek life. 
   
   They are definitely not the exception, Lipkins said. They are the rule. 
   
   Other FIU fraternities have also been disciplined. In 2002, FIU suspended the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity for paddling students  an act of hazing so severe that one student was seen limping on a swollen left leg. Though the hazing mentioned in the Pike Facebook posts isnt as extreme  pledges were forced to wash cars, for example  Lipkins said that doesnt mean more-severe hazing wasnt happening. 
   
   Pike members at times discussed the groups reputation. One posted that Pike didnt have a PR problem because sorority girls are dying to hook up with Pike brothers. In the days after the Boston Marathon bombings, another member had this suggestion: 
   
   Guys please put up the PIKE Prays for Boston Banner thats upstairs outside so that when people start arriving tomorrow morning they see it, he wrote. This is excellent publicity! ||||| Early Saturday morning, an unresponsive University of Tennessee student was dropped off at a medical center with a blood alcohol content that local police say was “well over .40,” the point at which death can occur. How did the 20-year-old student get that dangerously drunk? 
   
   Campus police went to the student’s fraternity house, Pi Kappa Alpha (aka Pike), to find out. They found several males intoxicated or passed out — and this scene, as described by a Knoxville police spokesman in a Monday statement that was obtained by The Post: “Upon extensive questioning it is believed that members of the fraternity were utilizing rubber tubing inserted into their rectums as a conduit for alcohol as the abundance of capillaries and blood vessels present greatly heightens the level and speed of the alcohol entering the blood stream as it bypasses the filtering by the liver.” 
   
   The act of getting wasted in that way is also referred to as “butt chugging,” “alcohol enema” and, well, “completely idiotic.” 
   
   The Knoxville News Sentinel reported that campus police also found “bags from wine boxes, some empty and some partially empty, strewn across the halls and rooms.” Gawker has since posed the question: “White or red, do you think?” 
   
   Earlier this week, the university and Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity administratively suspended the chapter for 30 days, pending an investigation into the allegations. In a statement on Tuesday, a top Pike official deemed this an “unfortunate, isolated incident” involving “a small group of individuals.” He added that the incident “is an opportunity to increase the public’s awareness of what appears to be an unfortunate and extremely dangerous practice by some young people today.” 
   
   The student’s father is irate that news of his son’s trip to the hospital has made headlines and told the student newspaper, the Daily Beacon, that there “are significant errors that have been reported and we will correct them.” The father did not elaborate on what those errors were, but told the paper that his son is back in class and “livid with the defamation of his character.” 
   
   On Wednesday afternoon, the university sent me a copy of its 12-page police report from the incident. Here are the pages that include police statements (minus the names of the involved students, which I chose to remove): 
   
   This post was updated at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday to include information provided by the university, along with the police report. 
   
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target: – Florida International University's Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity apparently didn't get the memo that social media isn't the place to go shopping for drugs. The frat has been suspended after its private Facebook page was made public via an anonymous email that included screenshots of 70 posts—some looking to buy or sell cocaine and the prescription stimulant Adderall—was sent to university administrators and the media, the Miami Herald reports. Among the posts the Herald obtained: "Anyone have a connect for coke, not me, a friends wants, lol" (response: "Is diet ok?"). And that wasn't the half of it: Other posts featured images of topless women, one described as being 17; boasts of hazing; digs at overweight women; and gay slurs. Another especially tasteless post: "Guys please put up the PIKE Prays for Boston Banner that’s upstairs outside so that when people start arriving tomorrow morning they see it. This is excellent publicity!" FIU is looking into whether its code of conduct was violated, and campus police have been looped in. It's certainly not the chapter's first offense—past indiscretions include egging a rival frat and painting obscenities on a student's car. Nor is it the frat's first headline-grabbing headache: Last year 22 Pi Kappa Alpha members at Northern Illinois University were charged in a pledge's death; it's also the frat that was involved in the University of Tennessee's infamous butt-chugging incident. (Click for another attempted drug buy gone wrong, this one via Twitter.)