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The latest legal news from U.S. colleges. Maryland A Bowie State University student has filed a $3 million suit against his fraternity and three officers. A member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity,...
View Article55% of students have experienced this … but most don’t realize it
Dangerous rituals or harmless traditions? The death a student during a fraternity pledge activity has raised serious questions about hazing on college campuses. Armando Villa was a 19-year-old student...
View ArticleWas national fraternity liable for death of pledge?
Picture this: An 18-year-old pledge went to a frat party, where he dird from acute alcohol ingestion. Is the national fraternity liable? Not in the case, according to the Indiana Supreme Court. The...
View ArticleSame-sex marriage, hazing … what’s happening on campus
Nothing’s ever quiet on college campuses. Check out what’s happening with same-sex marriage, hazing and sexual violence: Florida A male student has filed suit against Florida Atlantic University...
View ArticleUgly hazing injury leads to lawsuit
Were the injuries suffered by a fraternity pledge the fault of the college he attended? No, Indiana’s highest court decided. In September of 2007, Brian Yost was a freshman at Wabash College. He was...
View ArticleFrat loses recognition after hazing
The Gamma Phi Gamma fraternity has lost recognition from Wilmington College (Ohio) due to a recent hazing incident that left one victim needing surgery to remove a testicle. According to the campus...
View ArticleCollege dodges bullet in hazing case
Neither a college nor a fraternity were responsible for injuries sustained by a college freshman in an alleged hazing incident, a court ruled. In September 2007, Brian Yost was a freshman at Wabash...
View ArticleSchool didn’t stop hazing, student claims
A student who says her school did not do enough in response to a hazing incident. Jasmineann Vega was a student at Sacred Heart University when, in the fall of 2009, she participated in a week-long...
View ArticleCharges filed in Florida hazing case
More than a dozen people will face criminal prosecution in the case of a drum major who was beaten after a football game. Robert Champion, a 26-year-old drum major at Florida A&M University,...
View ArticleThree band members arrested in brutal attack
A hazing incident left a marching band member badly hurt. Three members of Florida A&M’s marching band were arrested after an alleged hazing incident during which an 18-year-old clarinet player was...
View ArticleHazed with … soy sauce?
Police officials at this university have obtained medical records of a student who was hospitalized for a sodium overdose. Was it hazing? That’s what police want to find out — and they’re moving...
View ArticleHazing charges rock sorority
An initiation into a sorority became ugly and violent, according to a student’s charges. Seven sorority sisters at the University of Maryland, College Park have been charged with hazing and assaulting...
View ArticleHe needs plastic surgery — but it wasn’t hazing?
Frat buddies took what was supposed to be a fun-filled ski trip, but after one drunken decision, the “fun” got way out of hand — and one student got burned. Texas Christian University (TCU) student...
View ArticleWas it good, clean fun — or hazing?
Frat members thought it would be a great idea to use a soapy floor as a slip-and-slide – then a pledge broke his back. In 2006, 23-year-old frat pledge Bradley Swearingen was at the Lambda Chi Alpha...
View ArticleStudents lose case, but seek attorneys’ fees
Sure, it hurts to have to pay a lawyer. But are attorneys’ fees a compensable “injury” under the law? When officials at Texas A&M University got word that members of a student group called the...
View ArticleHazing and drinking: How do you raise student awareness?
Two dangers on college campus: excessive drinking and hazing. Put together, the combination can be deadly for students. Case in point: In 2004, all-American, 18-year-old Gordie Bailey died due to a...
View ArticleWhen harassment policies go too far
Can a university’s policy on hazing and harassment prohibit conduct that “frightens, demeans, degrades or disgraces any person”? The University of the Virgin Islands disciplined student Stephen...
View ArticleViolent hazing: No longer just sports and frats
Think hazing is limited to college sports and fraternities? Guess again. Marching band members have become part of a growing number of college students who’ve experienced hazing — and the courts now...
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