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A fraternity that has been on the Indiana University campus since 1958 has been kicked off. Alpha Epsilon Pi is accused of hazing.

Indiana University Dean of Students Richard McKaig announced Wednesday morning that Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity has been expelled from campus for two years.

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Story from NWAnews.com

A judge has ruled that Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity Inc. and its sponsor at Southern Arkansas University, J. Courson, weren’t responsible for the 2004 hazing beating of pledge Phillip Tyler “Ty” Keith.

Thirteenth Judicial District Circuit Judge David Guthrie said Courson and the national fraternity had no control over the actions of members of the fraternity’s Delta Iota chapter at SAU.

Story from The Times of Trent
The Times of Trenton
Website News Update
September 10, 2007

Rider hazing defendants apply for PTI program

Two of three Rider University student defendants who are charged with
aggravated hazing in the drinking death of a fraternity pledge appeared in
court Monday and are applying to enter the Pretrial Intervention Program.

Freshman Gary DeVercelly Jr., 18, died in March after drinking heavily
during an initiation ritual.

Lawyers for Dominic Olsen, 21, the pledge master of now defunct Phi Kappa
Tau fraternity, and Adriano DiDonato, 22, told Superior Court Judge
Mitchell Ostrer that their clients are applying for PTI, which, if
sucessfully completed will allow the criminal charge against them to be
expunged. The terms of their admission to the program, which is routinely
offered to first-time, non-violent offenders, will be set at their next
status conference on Oct. 1.

from KVUE News

New information surfaced Thursday concerning the death of a University of Texas student last year.

The Travis County District Attorney's office is investigating whether the student, Tyler Cross, was a victim of hazing.

The 18-year-old fell to his death from a fifth story balcony last November at the University Towers dormitory. An autopsy later showed cross was legally intoxicated at the time.

A search warrant, filed by the county attorney's office and seeking information from Google, Inc, tells what happened before he died.

Investigators are gathering information that was shared online by members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fall 2006 pledge class at UT, of which Cross was a member.

From New Jersey On-Line

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Adriano DiDonato, an education major at Rider University, had no idea he could be held criminally liable for the actions of others when he agreed to be the house manager of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity for less than minimum wage, his attor ney said yesterday.

Star-Ledger
Newark, NJ
August 4, 2007

Rider officials, students indicted in hazing death Unprecedented charging of administrators is warning against alcohol, says prosecutor

BY MARY JO PATTERSON AND TOM HESTER
Star-Ledger Staff

In a move designed to put college communities on notice, a Mercer County grand jury yesterday indicted two RiderUniversity administrators along with three students on hazing charges in the drinking death of a Rider freshman earlier this year.

Story from TheSouthern.com

Suspended sorority sisters suing SIUC

By Bethany krajelis, The Southern

CARBONDALE - Three suspended Southern Illinois University Carbondale students are suing the university and five of its employees for racial discrimination stemming from an alleged 2004 sorority hazing incident.

Monet Williams, Tequeira Johnson and Nakia Collins - members of the historically black Zeta Phi Beta sorority - claim the university disciplined them differently because they were black. The university, however, contends that no racial discrimination took place and referred to incidents where both black and white students in SIUC's Greek system were suspended.

Excepted from Sacbee.com

Beta Theta Pi members allegedly made pledges do calisthenics and crawl through mud, then submerged them up to their necks in freezing water, subjecting them to hypothermia, District Attorney Mike Ramsey said Tuesday.

Source = Everything Alabama

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New details about how a University of South Alabama student might have suffered a ruptured spleen during a fraternity initiation ritual emerged this week, even as an official with the Mobile County District Attorney's Office said criminal charges will not be pursued.

But a lawyer representing Chris Mims, the injured student, said Friday that he is considering lawsuits against the members and supervisors of the USA chapter of Tau Kappa Epsilon as well as against the international TKE organization.

source - KHSLTV.com

Three members of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity may become the first to be prosecuted for hazing under Matt’s Law. District Attorney Mike Ramsey says people need to know that crimes like hazing will be taken very seriously and those responsible will be held to answer.

According to Ramsey, the hazing activity took place against a group of pledges last April and was serious enough to elicit legal action. Christopher Bizot, 23, and Michael Murphy, 22, were the president and vice president of the fraternity at the time of the alleged hazing. Also indicted is Matthew Krupp, 23, the fraternity’s ritualist.