Appeal filed challenging Samford University’s seizure of fraternity house

It shut down and took over the building without paying the non-profit corporation run by alumni that owned it, according to a lawsuit filed in Jefferson County Circuit Court.

The house, identified as the Theta Alpha house on campus maps, was built and maintained by the non-profit Theta Alpha Zeta House Corp. on land that was under a 100-year lease with Samford dating to 1971, Hart said. Dennis Bubrig, who was Samford director of Greek Life from 2010-15, said no meetings of the fraternity should have taken place between Dec. 9, 2011-March 7, 2012, according to Samford’s suspension of the fraternity. Bubrig said in a sworn affidavit for the lawsuit that the offices of Student Life, including the Greek Life office, moved into the building in August 2012.

Samford argued in court documents that Hart had not been a representative of the fraternity or Theta Alpha Zeta House Corp. since 2012. Lambda Chi Alpha national fraternity sided with Samford and after the suspension and was later able to resume a presence on the campus.

Taking a million dollar house appears to be excessive for the activities of a Greek organization that are accepted nationwide.

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