>>> february 28, 2002
TKO

It wasn’t the strippers that got the Kappa Alpha Order of the University of Tennessee in trouble. The cockfights and gambling in the frat house basement were frowned upon, but never caused too much of a fuss. What finally caught the attention of the fraternity’s national headquarters was news of the chapter’s boxing tournament. Members of the frat would hit the streets of Knoxville, find a few homeless guys, get them “liquored up,” and then gave them gloves and “let them go to town.” According to one chapter member the tournament had been held frequently over the past decade.
Having already been briefly suspended and put on probation a year ago by the Interfraternity Council Judicial Board after an incident involving the theft of Christmas decorations, the chapter may now see themselves bounced from the frat altogether. Both the national chapter and the university are conducting disciplinary investigations. :

—Scott Saxon