University of Chicago frat bros campus social life went on uninterrupted after alleged rape: report
A University of Chicago frat bro accused of raping a 19-year-old during a February party reportedly remained an active member of the fraternity — until a newly filed lawsuit exposed his alleged crimes this month. Kevin Shim, the sophomore Alpha Delta Phi member who allegedly sexually assaulted the unnamed “Jane Doe” at a Feb.7 frat party, was living it up — getting invited to social events, posing for pictures with his pals and attending math and computer classes for his major — until he was publicly identified in court papers, according to the Chicago Maroon, the university’s independent student-led newspaper.Earlier this month, he even appeared on an invitation to a social event co-hosted by the frat and UChicago’s Delta Gamma sorority chapter called “Champagne and Shackles” – a function where coeds are handcuffed together until they can finish a bottle of champagne, the outlet reported. Shim was eventually scrubbed from the invitation — sent out on Oct.
15 — and didn’t attend the event, according to invitations reviewed by the publication and people who were present at the party. Delta Gamma’s president, Litzy Tafolla, told the outlet that the event was held at some point before the bombshell lawsuit dropped on Oct.19 — and that “no one in Delta Gamma knew about the assault” until it was made public. Tafolla reportedly declined to specify the date of the “Champagne and Shackles” event and did not reply to The Post’s requests for comment. Shim – a South Korea native who attended the Seoul Foreign School before starting at UChicago, where he majored in computational and applied mathematics and physics – was also seen posing alongside his Alpha Delta Phi brothers in photos posted online as recently as the spring, the publication reported.
As of Tuesday, Shim had moved out of his university-owned dorm room and had been suspended from the fraternity, according to the Maroon.But life as he knew it came to a crashing ha...