Beta National Headquarters Cuts Ties With Yale Chapter

Beta Chapter Loses National Affiliation

The national headquarters of Beta Theta Pi has disaffiliated itself with the fraternity's chapter at Yale University, less than a month after a stash of guns were confiscated from their campus house.

A 21-year-old brother of the fraternity was arrested in July on weapons charges stemming from an incident at their house in which a gun was fired and two illegal weapons were seized, Yale University police said.

Police said they confiscated 11 guns from the frat house, including two illegal assault rifles, chemicals and ammunition. Light has beeen temporarily suspended from the university.

The brothers were said to have been playing beer pong before the shooting.

"The fraternity will go local, it will prosper. We have a huge alumni network," its alumni director told a campus newspaper.

The chapter was founded in 1892, but went inactive in 1968. It was revived by a new brotherhood in 1990.

Yale Beta Charged After Shooting

A 21-year-old Yale College brother of Beta Theta Pi was arrested on weapons charges stemming from an incident at his fraternity house in which a gun was fired and two illegal weapons were seized, Yale University police said.

David Light, 21, was charged Monday with two counts of illegal possession of assault rifles, unlawful discharge of a firearm, reckless endangerment, threatening and breach of peace.

Police said they confiscated 11 guns from the frat house, including two illegal assault rifles, chemicals and ammunition. Light has beeen temporarily suspended from the university.

Light and his fraternity brothers were said to have been playing beer pong before the shooting and was to have been drunk and belligerent.

Yale Student Arrested on Gun Charges

The Frat Boy News daily campus police report for Wednesday:

Yale University (compiled by Courant.com)

A 21-year-old Yale College student has been arrested on weapons charges stemming from an incident at his off-campus residence in which a gun was fired and two illegal weapons were seized, Yale University police announced on Tuesday.

David Light, 21, of 36 Lynwood Place, was charged Monday with two counts of illegal possession of assault rifles, unlawful discharge of a firearm, reckless endangerment, threatening and breach of peace.

Light was arrested for discharging a handgun in his residence, Yale police said in a statement released by the university Tuesday afternoon. There were no injuries in the incident.

Police acting on a warrant searched the residence and confiscated the two, illegal assault weapons and nine other firearms from Light's residence. Ammunition and a supply of various chemicals purportedly belonging to Light were also confiscated.

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