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Hazing Alive and Sick AGAIN at U of Maryland

Univ. Police begin fraternity hazing inquiryBy Kevin RobillardUniversity Police launched a criminal investigation of Delta Tau Delta fraternity members yesterday as details of alleged hazing incidents emerged in an Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life document, officials said.
The document, a copy of which was obtained by The Diamondback, details a six-week hazing program involving the [...]

Hazing Still a Topic 5 Years After Death

Jennings death: 5 years laterBy: Benjamin Pomerance
The telephone rang.
Walter Jennings, Jr., casually lifted up the receiver.
It was a conversation he would soon want to forget.
The voice on the other end was saying strange things. Something about a young man, a Plattsburgh State student, who had been pledging a fraternity when something went terribly [...]

NASPA Study Shows Widespread Hazing on College Campuses

Hazing Is Widespread Among Student Groups, Study Finds
Chronicle of Higher Education, March 12, 2008
Boston - More than half of students who belong to campus organizations experience hazing, according to a national study presented here at the annual conference of NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.
While the practice is most common among fraternities, [...]

UT frat suspended for two weeks

Pi Kappa Alpha at Tennessee is in trouble
Three pledges were hospitalized in January, UT initially reported. One family member told the News Sentinel the three had staph infections. The students were treated and released. UT announced its investigation into hazing allegations the week of Jan. 14.
The Dean of Students Office took action Monday after the [...]

It Takes Just ONE to Change Things!

One student’s journey to stop hazing
By Cassandra Carlson, Mustang Daily
One Cal Poly student has been recognized nationally for his proactive stance and efforts to halt hazing at his fraternity.
Aerospace engineering senior and Tau Kappa Epsilon member Adrian Herrera was recently named one of the nation’s Anti-Hazing Heroes by hazingprevention.org.
After attending a workshop at the Western [...]

IU Eliminates AEPi for Hazing Violations

Fraternity kicked off campus for hazingBy Sara Amato
IU announced Wednesday that the Beta Iota chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity will be closed for two years after the University discovered the fraternity violated a hazing policy.
Dean of Students Dick McKaig announced the fraternity’s expulsion from campus, which cannot be appealed, after consulting the national headquarters [...]

Hazing continues on campuses, in organizations

Chuck Eberly was recently interviewed about continued hazing on college campuses:
Despite widespread efforts to end the practice of hazing, the activity continues to take place in afar-reaching range of organizations and teams.
Hazing is not something that is limited to college campuses either, as instances of it are occurring more and more at high schools or [...]

Tri-Sigma at MSU Closed for Hazing

MSU sorority closed over drinking, hazing
University, ousted women differ on gravity of allegations.By Steve KoehlerSpringfield News-LeaderJanuary 16, 2008
A Missouri State University sorority was disbanded for playing drinking games, leaving blindfolded women in a cemetery, and forcing a woman to get an application from a strip club.
The national council for Sigma Sigma Sigma yanked its charter, [...]

2003 Plattsburgh Case Finally Settled

Wrongful-death judgment handed down for 2003 PSU hazingBy ANDREA VanVALKENBURG
PLATTSBURGH — More than four years after Plattsburgh State student Walter Dean Jennings died from hazing-related torment, a judge has handed down a $1.5 million judgment for his death.
Jennings, a freshman history major at the local college, was pledging the Psi Epsilon Chi fraternity in March [...]

Hazing Is Everyone’s Job To Stop

(Update: We found a poem about hazing in the New York Times archives from 1906.)
Hazing, Hazing, Hazing!Contra Costa Times – Walnut Creek California11/04/2007By Jackie Burrell
A Chico fraternity pledge is forced to drink water until he collapses and dies.
A Chicago high school powderpuff game turns into a melee. A Fremont swim team hazing involves seniors [...]

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