PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — One of two Brown University students who reported rapid intoxication followed by memory loss after drinking punch at a fraternity party tested positive for a date-rape drug, a university official announced in a campus-wide email. 
 
 The email sent late Saturday by Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services at Brown, said tests on the other student remain pending, The Providence Journal reported (http://bit.ly/1snd2T3 ). One of the students also reported being sexually assaulted. 
 
 The student tested positive for gamma hydroxybutyrate, a date-rape drug also known as GHB, Klawunn wrote. 
 
 "GHB is a colorless, odorless drug that can be hard to detect in a drink," the email said, "but has a strong sedative effect that is incapacitating." 
 
 The two students reported they experienced "a rapid onset of intoxication" beyond what they expected from the amount they drank, and "memory loss for a significant period of time" after drinking the punch, Klawunn wrote. 
 
 University officials suspended the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, which hosted the Oct. 17 event at a residential hall. 
 
 Members of the fraternity said in a recent letter to The Brown Daily Herald that news involving the two students took them by surprise and they were confident "that in no way did any member of Phi Kappa Psi engage in or perpetrate such atrocious and criminal behavior." They said no members of the fraternity have been accused of or criminally charged with sexual assault. 
 
 School officials are urging students with information about the date-rape drug or the alleged sexual assault to contact university police. 
 
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 Information from: The Providence Journal, http://www.providencejournal.com ||||| Following emergency meetings today among West Virginia University officials, the Inter-Fraternity Council and Panhellenic Council, all campus fraternities and sororities have been placed on a moratorium that suspends all chapter social and pledging activities until further notice. 
 
 The action comes on the heels of two recent incidents, the latest occurring around midnight Wednesday (Nov. 12) where a catastrophic medical emergency required a 9-1-1 response to a fraternity house. The other on Nov. 6 was a disturbance in South Park involving members of another fraternity. Both incidents are under investigation by both Morgantown and University Police. 
 
 “First, our hearts, prayers and support go out to the student who is gravely ill and his family. Right now that is our utmost concern,” said Dean of Students Corey Farris, Inter-Fraternity Council President Ansh Kumar and Panhellenic Council President Rachel Poe in a joint statement. 
 
 Farris said Student Life officials have met with the family and are also offering counseling services for friends and loved ones. Staff at the Carruth Center are available by calling 304-293-4431. 
 
 “The action to halt fraternity and sorority activities while these matters are being reviewed is being done with the well-being and safety of our students in mind. That is  and must always be  our foremost priority,” Farris said. 
 
 In addition to any criminal charges, WVU’s Office of Student Conduct will review the matters to determine any violations of the student code. 
 
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 The West Virginia University freshman who was found unconscious and not breathing inside a fraternity house — leading to a suspension of all Greek activities on campus — has died, university officials said Friday afternoon. Nolan Michael Burch, 18, of Williamsville, New York, had been in critical condition in intensive care at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, police and a hospital spokesman said. 
 
 "Words cannot describe the heartache we, as a West Virginia University family, feel at the loss of one of our own — Nolan Michael Burch — who passed away today," WVU President E. Gordon Gee said in a statement. 
 
 Morgantown police said they were called to the Kappa Sigma house about midnight Wednesday and found a man performing CPR on Burch, who was lying on the floor. Burch wasn't breathing and had no pulse, police added. 
 
 University officials said in a joint statement with the college's Inter-Fraternity and Panhellenic councils that all Greek organizations affiliated with the university had been suspended after the "catastrophic medical emergency." The incident also came a week after a different fraternity was suspended over a street brawl. 
 
 Burch's great-aunt said earlier Friday that the teen's family has rushed to West Virginia to be with him. 
 
 "These things shouldn't happen," Joyce Stamp told NBC News. "He's only 18. He's a nice young man and I'm shocked. 
 
 "But he's a freshman and even very intelligent kids sometimes get caught up. You hear all the stuff about hazing, and this is his first time away from home," she added. 
 
 The Kappa Sigma national office said in a statement that it is "distraught and saddened by the news" about Burch and it is investigating what happened at its WVU chapter. The chapter had been suspended since mid-October because of "previous, unrelated violations" with the fraternity's code of conduct. Both the chapter and the school were notified Monday — prior to the pledge event — that the group's charter had been withdrawn and its operations were closed, Kappa Sigma said. 
 
 WVU's Office of Student Activities was verbally told Monday that the Kappa Sigma group's charter was revoked, a university spokeswoman confirmed in a statement Friday. "WVU's office then communicated with the chapter by letter on Wednesday (Nov. 12) that the University had been made aware of the revocation and that they were no longer a recognized student group at the institution," according to the statement. 
 
 Last week, a separate fraternity, Sigma Chi, was suspended after 19 intoxicated pledges were arrested or cited for underage possession of alcohol after a street brawl at 1:30 a.m. on Nov. 6. Morgantown police said they responded to numerous calls of a disturbance to find the students "running and screaming, yelling and engaging in disorderly conduct." The students initially identified themselves as being members of a rival fraternity and could face charges of obstruction of justice for providing fictitious information, Morgantown police added. 
 
 Greek organizations at many U.S. colleges have come under scrutiny in the wake of several deaths and injuries of pledges in the past year: 
 
 In September, all fraternity activities were suspended at Clemson University in South Carolina after 19-year-old Sigma Phi Epsilon pledge Tucker Hipps died during a fraternity run. 
 
 In July, 19-year-old Pi Kappa Phi pledge Armando Villa of California State University, Northridge, died on a fraternity trip. Sheriff's investigators ruled the death to be hazing-related. 
 
 In March, 18-year-old Phi Sigma Kappa pledge Marquise Braham of Penn State University committed suicide after what his family claimed was repeated hazing. While not explicitly linking Braham's death to hazing, police opened a criminal investigation, and Penn State suspended the fraternity last month after sealing the results of its own investigation. 
 
 Last December, 19-year-old Pi Delta Psi pledge Michael Deng of Baruch College in New York died from major head trauma in what police said was a homicide. 
 
 "The action to halt fraternity and sorority activities while these matters are being reviewed is being done with the well-being and safety of our students in mind," said Corey Farris, West Virginia University's dean of students. "That is — and must always be — our foremost priority." 
 
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 I am very saddened to hear that our student Nolan Burch passed away today. My heart breaks for his family. — E. Gordon Gee (@gordongee) November 14, 2014 
 
 I hope the entire WVU community understands how precious every life is to this University. We must help to prevent similar tragedies. — E. Gordon Gee (@gordongee) November 14, 2014 
 
 NBC News' Tracy Connor and Erik Ortiz contributed to this report. ||||| By Sunshine Wiles in News | November 13, 2014 at 11:27PM 
 
 MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A West Virginia University freshman was in critical condition at a Morgantown hospital after what university officials called “a catastrophic medical emergency.” 
 
 Facebook Nolan Burch of Buffalo, N.Y., is an 18-year-old freshman at WVU. This photo was taken on North High Street in Morgantown. 
 
 Morgantown police said Nolan Michael Burch, 18, of Buffalo, N.Y., was found on the floor of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity at 11:52 p.m. Wednesday. Police said another person was performing CPR on Burch when they arrived. He was rushed to Ruby Memorial Hospital where he remained in critical condition Thursday night. 
 
 WVU officials held an emergency meeting Thursday that included the Inter-Fraternity Council and Panhellenic Council, where they placed an immediate moratorium on all Greek activities. 
 
 “First, our hearts, prayers and support go out to the student who is gravely ill and his family. Right now that is our utmost concern,” said Dean of Students Corey Farris, Inter-Fraternity Council President Ansh Kumar and Panhellenic Council President Rachel Poe in a joint statement. 
 
 The moratorium includes all pledging and social activities for fraternities and sororities at WVU. 
 
 Burch had tweeted Wednesday, “It’s about to be a very eventful night to say the least.” 
 
 Social media postings Thursday indicated Burch was in grave condition and friends were saying their goodbyes. 
 
 Farris said the Wednesday night incident, and one that took place involving the Sigma Chi fraternity last week in a Morgantown, neighborhood prompted the moratorium. 
 
 “It’s just the right time to take a pause to take a look at, in particular, where our fraternities and sororities have been and where they’re going, make sure it’s the right direction we want our students to be walking,” Farris told WAJR Radio in Morgantown Thursday night. 
 
 Last week, a group of students were involved in a neighborhood disruption that saw three students arrested and 16 others cited. Police said all had been drinking and all were under the legal age. 
 
 Farris said the most recent incidents don’t fully represent Greek life at WVU. 
 
 “As with most things that go on around us, there are a few problems here and there and you stop and deal with them. But, not everything is bad,” he said. 
 
 Police said Burch’s family was at his side while investigators were trying to find pledges or fraternity members that may have been with Burch Wednesday night. 
 
 “We know we’ve got a medical emergency with someone in the hospital, (but) the details behind it, we just don’t know,” Farris said. “Quite honestly our focus is that particular thing right now, we’ve got thoughts and prayers out for the student and the family.”
– Two fraternity incidents in less than two weeks spurred West Virginia University to take rather drastic action yesterday: It suspended all frat and sorority activities. The moratorium was imposed after 18-year-old Nolan Michael Burch was found by police unconscious and not breathing Wednesday evening at the Kappa Sigma house; an unknown man was trying to pump life back into him to no avail, NBC News reports. Burch—who tweeted, "It's about to be a very eventful night to say the least" on Wednesday afternoon—was listed as being in critical care in ICU at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown after what the university is calling a "catastrophic medical emergency." University officials made the call to halt Greek activity after an emergency meeting yesterday with the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Council, reports Metro News, which says social media posts paint Burch's friends as "saying their final goodbyes." This came on the tails of a drunken brawl in the street last week in which 19 reportedly drunk Sigma Chi pledges were arrested or cited because of the alleged imbibing; they may face obstruction of justice charges, too: They initially told cops they were from a different fraternity. Drunk party attendees, hazing, sexual assaults, drinks spiked with date-rape drugs, and even a homicide have plagued Greek organizations around the country as of late, NBC notes.