Family Reaches settlement in pledge’s deathAssociated Press
Proceeds from a $4.2 million settlement of a lawsuit against a fraternity will be used to educate fraternity and sorority members about the dangers of binge drinking.
The family of a University of Texas student — Jack Phoummarath (FOO’-mah-rahth) — who died of alcohol poisoning after a fraternity binge-drinking party [...]
Pi Kappa Phi at Florida was accused of physical hazing rituals involving hours of physical activity and consumption of large quantities of alcohol. They did not dispute the charges, and lost their on-campus house, cannot recruit new members, and cannot participate in philanthropies.
UF senior Lyle Long was president of the fraternity when the incidents took [...]
Parents hopeful law will prevent deathsBy Enrique Rangel A-J AUSTIN BUREAU
AUSTIN - Mark and Freada Warren will never forget what happened that morning of Sept. 14, 2002.
The couple’s son, Clay Warren, a freshman at Texas Tech, and two school friends were returning from a fraternity function in Amarillo when a parent’s worst nightmare happened. [...]
Pledge May Face Rap for Own Hazing By Dan Mangan
A Duke University student from Connecticut who was nearly hazed to death at a fraternity has been threatened with arrest - for abetting his own abuse, his lawyer said.
“It’s ridiculous,” fumed Stephan Seeger, the lawyer for 19-year-old Daniel Klufas, of Easton, Conn.
Klufas, a freshman at the [...]
Frat’s reputation is hardly brotherlyAllegations include drugging, sex assaultsBy Brendan McCarthy
The Tulane University fraternity at the center of a hazing controversy has weathered several disciplinary complaints over the past several years, including allegations of sexual assaults and drugging of female students.
In March 2006, Tulane’s student government group asked university officials to investigate the Pi Kappa [...]
You just have to hate it when one of our chapters is shown in an unflattering light. Whether this fits the definition of “hazing” is a question that begs a distinction without a difference. Every action is grist for the mill of public opinion. It does not matter what is “really” happening - people will [...]
Pikes hit for Hazing in N’awlins
Five Tulane students with the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity have been arrested and arrest warrants have been issued for five more in connection with an alleged hazing incident that left two pledges with severe burns.
According to NOPD spokesman Gary Flot, the fraternity members have been charged with second-degree battery [...]
Sig Ep pleads not guilty to hazingKatherine Johnson
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity was tried before the Patterson Court Judiciary Board for hazing new members over three months after the incident occurred on Self Selection night. The trial began with opening statements from Sig Ep President Chris Vincoli ‘09 and Student Solicitor Neely Meeks ‘09 before a [...]
Hazed: A Greek TragedyAfter enduring countless “takeouts,” the freshman pledges of Lambda Phi Epsilon called it quitsPeter Jackson
The seven pledges stood, shoulder to shoulder and in silence, on the newspaper-covered floor of an apartment on Foster Street. Across a row of seven empty trash cans, 14 actives held gallon jugs of liquid, which looked from [...]
In all, 4 members of SAE at the University of Texas at Austin will have criminal records. Note that “failure to report hazing” is an offence in Texas.
Two former “pledge trainers” at a University of Texas fraternity — one who was accused of touching a hot clothes iron to pledges’ faces and another accused of [...]
