There are two competing interests in this case: informing potential targets of these allegations, and preserving DU’s reputation.
Report this story when everyone involved is innocent, and DU needs to cancel a mixer and face a few months of scrutiny. Unless something keeps this story in the news, DU brothers won’t be pariahs any more than the Fiji brothers whose ill-advised party made national news are pariahs. The Maroon hasn’t named any names, and people don’t just wake up in the morning thinking “time to smear someone innocent.” Unless these allegations lead to formal charges, most people on campus will move on.
Keep quiet when a brother is guilty, and people will continue going to DU events - where someone who’s tried drugging multiple students will presumably be in attendance. The majority of sexual assaults are carried out by a small number of repeat offenders. If one assault, or attempted assault, has taken place, there’s a good chance another will follow.
My personal opinion is that almost no amount of damage to the reputation of a fraternity should outweigh a significant risk that someone will be sexually assaulted. I might not have said this a few years ago, but I’m tired of people I care about being hurt as a result of sexual assaults that might have been prevented - not by the survivors, but by the institutional actors that are supposed to keep them safe.
The Maroon is not going to publish information that could identify its sources, so stories like this are rarely cut-and-dry for outside observers. The overall statistics tell us very few people make false accusations of this nature. People I know have had very concerning experiences with some DU brothers, which might be one-off incidents or might be part of a larger pattern. In the absence of information to the contrary, I’m assuming these allegations are credible, because I’m not a judge and this isn’t a courtroom.
I don’t think either of us is going to convince the other, so I’m going to leave it at that.