WABI covers fraternity house demolition

WABI (Channel 5) reported on the demolition of the Sigma Nu fraternity house on the University of Maine campus. The house had been standing for more than 100 years, according to the report. “I’m sure it’s a bittersweet day,” said Kenda Scheele, assistant vice president for student life at UMaine. “It was a point in which the house was in a point of disrepair, and the money just wasn’t there to bring it back up to what it needed to be to continue to be in its existing form.” The site will be prepared as a parking lot for the time being, but Scheele said “future plans are open-ended.” She encouraged Sigma Nu to return to UMaine once its five-year suspension for violating student conduct codes is up in 2017.