UPDATED: Feb. 28 at 12:50 a.m.

A member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and former student in the Martin J. Whitman School of Management died Saturday night.

Philip Alcott, who enrolled at Syracuse University in fall 2009 but did not return to campus this academic year, was a Syracuse resident. Thomas Wolfe, senior vice president and dean of student affairs, did not comment on the cause of death.

The Syracuse Police Department directed requests for more information to the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office, which is handling the case. The Sheriff’s Office could not be reached for comment.

Alcott is still listed as a student in SU’s student directory system. Wolfe said he was not sure why this was. 

Because Alcott retained ties to the campus, Wolfe said the SU community wanted to reach out to support the Alcott family and the students who knew him.

‘We’re reaching out to all the communities where he spent time when he was a student here,’ Wolfe said.

Wolfe sent an e-mail Sunday afternoon to SU students, faculty and staff about Alcott’s death.

The Counseling Center, Hendricks Chapel and the Faculty and Staff Assistance Program are available for those around campus who need support.

Eddie Banks-Crosson, director of fraternity and sorority affairs at SU, said the SAE and SU community was available to support those who knew Alcott.

‘Philip Alcott was a member of the Syracuse community as well as our Greek family,’ Banks-Crosson said in an e-mail. ‘I ask that the members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity be given the privacy and respect that they deserve during their time of loss.  Syracuse University and the Greek community stands with and ready to support them.’

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Published on February 26, 2011 at 12:00 pm

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