Goat head found on FIJI stoop

Phi Gamma Delta’s porch is still stained with goat blood.
A severed goat’s head was left on the front porch of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house last Wednesday, according to a police report.

The report said a note was accompanying the head, and read, “Done,” with a small heart drawn over the “o.” Javier Manriquez-Ortiz, the fraternity’s president, said he has been a member of the fraternity, known as “FIJI,” for three-and-a-half years, and to his knowledge an incident such as this hasn’t occurred before.

“This was an isolated event,” Manriquez-Ortiz said. “I don’t have any ideas on who might have done this.”

Manriquez-Ortiz said Greek Life coordinators advised the fraternity to file a police report.

“As far as I’m concerned, the police are investigating,” he said.

Greek Life adviser Jon Gayer said fraternity pranks are common, but he has never seen anything this extreme.

“With the animal head, this is like a scene out of ‘The Godfather,’” Gayer said. “We don’t even know if it was another fraternity that did it. The animal doesn’t match the mascot of any organizations.”

Gayer said standard operating procedures exist when it comes to dealing with frat life incidents, but pranks aren’t normally so serious.

“Every now and then, there’s (toilet papering) of a house,” he said. “They’ll borrow something that belongs to the organization and bring it back a year later.”