A meeting between representatives of sororities and fraternities, members of the SIUC football team and the team’s head coach was not productive, a fraternity member says.

The meeting Wednesday night resulted from of an alleged altercation between SIUC football players and fraternity members at a fraternity social event Saturday at Lincoln Middle School.

Alfie Patterson, president of Alpha Phi Alpha, said the altercation took place at the dance when some football players requested to be let into the event for free.

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However Patterson said nothing was accomplished Thursday. But he said a possible resolution was discussed during the meeting.

Basically what happened was a lot of accusations, he said. Our questions were not answered, but we are working on a resolution.

Patterson said the resolution may include an apology to Lincoln Middle School by the athletes involved and representatives of fraternities and sororities. The resolution also may require that athletes do community service.

We really wanted to find out what the problem was that led up to the incident that occurred, he said. If a resolution is not made, we are going to take it to higher ground. We might have to take this to the judicial board or someone higher in the athletic department.

Patterson said Watson had an open-door policy for members of the fraternities and sororities who wished to discuss the problem.

Coach Watson did open his doors to alleviate the problem, he said. He wanted to resolve this, but we are still working on a proposal.

Watson said he was glad to see the incident being resolved in a mature manner.

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I think it is good to see young people coming together to resolve this problem, he said.

Patterson said another meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday with Watson, the players involved and fraternity and sorority representatives.