--- description: All frats and sororities were suspended Thursday after an 18-year-old freshman was found unconscious and not breathing in a frat house title: West Virginia University Suspends All Frats, Sororities After Incident image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt115e0e59bff50bc4/698768bc3c16393d8f44ff51/west-virginia-university.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Education](/tag/education/) ## Education Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # West Virginia University Suspends All Frats, Sororities After Incident by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 14, 2014 12:24 PM CUT  General view of the Woodburn Hall on the campus of the West Virginia University Mountaineers circa 2011 in Morgantown, West Virginia. General view of the Woodburn Hall on the campus of the West Virginia University Mountaineers circa 2011 in Morgantown, West Virginia.West Virginia/Collegiate Images/Getty Images by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 14, 2014 12:24 PM CUT All fraternities and sororities at West Virginia University were suspended Thursday after an 18-year-old freshman was found unconscious and not breathing inside a fraternity house, just a week after a different fraternity was suspended after 19 pledges got into a street brawl, university officials and police said. Nolan Michael Burch, 18, of Buffalo, New York, was in critical condition in intensive care Thursday at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, police and a hospital spokesman said. Morgantown police said they were called to the Kappa Sigma house about midnight Wednesday and found a man performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Burch, who was lying on… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/west-virginia-university-suspends-all-frats-sororities-after-incident-n248286 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3585393/west-virginia-university-frats-sororities-suspension/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3585393/west-virginia-university-frats-sororities-suspension/"},"headline":"West Virginia University Suspends All Frats, Sororities After Incident","datePublished":"2014-11-14T12:24:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:26:34.631Z","description":"After 18-year-old was found unconscious in frat house","url":"https://time.com/3585393/west-virginia-university-frats-sororities-suspension/","keywords":["Education","College"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt115e0e59bff50bc4/698768bc3c16393d8f44ff51/west-virginia-university.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt115e0e59bff50bc4/698768bc3c16393d8f44ff51/west-virginia-university.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"West Virginia Mountaineers Campus","caption":"West Virginia Mountaineers Campus","creditText":"West Virginia/Collegiate Images/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/education/","name":"Education"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3585393/west-virginia-university-frats-sororities-suspension/","name":"West Virginia University Suspends All Frats, Sororities After Incident"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"See What You Missed This Week","description":"Here are four of the biggest stories for the second week of November.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/VmCGKpJz/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-11-14T16:05:30.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/VmCGKpJz.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3585393/west-virginia-university-frats-sororities-suspension/","duration":"PT1M19S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3585393/west-virginia-university-frats-sororities-suspension/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```