News > Spokane Woman falls from WSU sorority house while vomiting out second-story window Fri., Aug. 14, 2015

A 19-year-old woman fell out a second-story window early Friday at the Delta Gamma sorority house near the Washington State University campus in Pullman. The woman was taken by ambulance shortly after 2 a.m. to Pullman Regional Hospital with non-life-threatening facial injuries, Pullman police Cmdr. Chris Tennant said. She reportedly had been drinking and was trying to vomit out the window when she lost her balance and fell, Tennant said. She landed on a concrete pad after falling about 15 feet. Tennant said it’s not clear where she had been drinking. The incident appears to be the first serious fall at a WSU Greek house since September 2013, when a 21-year-old man, reportedly drunk on wine, fell down a flight of stairs inside the Delta Chi fraternity house. In August of that year, a 19-year-old woman fell through a fire escape at Phi Kappa Tau. In 2012, five WSU or University of Idaho students were injured in falls from buildings between September and November; three of the five were at fraternity houses, and four of the five involved alcohol. “We have far too many falls from fraternities and sororities,” Tennant said. “It doesn’t seem to happen nearly as much at private residences.”

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