Numerous people knew Gary Jr. Unfortunately, no one listened until it was too late. Gary was placed on a futon and left alone. By the time paramedics were called it was too late. His parents had to make that decision no parent should ever have to make. With his mother, father, younger sister, and younger brother at his side, Gary Jr.
Brett Griffin, 18, of Kendall Park, N. J died in Newark, DE. Newark Police have charged University of Delaware students, all members or pledges of Sigma Alpha Mu, had already been charged as individuals by Newark police with alcohol and drug offenses stemming from the investigation of the death of Brett Griffin.
However, police emphasized the individuals have no links to the death of Griffin. Griffin, died at a party in November.
Fraternity members said the freshman chose to drink. Julie and Timothy Griffins filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the national fraternity and several members in , settling before the trial with all but former chapter president Jason Aaron and former pledge master Matthew Siracusa.
The attorney for the family of year-old Johnny D. Smith of Tucson, Arizona who died of alcohol poisoning took the unusual step of calling a press conference calling for investigation of possible hazing. Police complained that university officials waited two days before asking them to investigate the death of Harrison Kowiak, 18, in what has been called a physical initiation game.
The death has not officially been ruled hazing, but the father of Kowiak said the event certainly met the definition of hazing. The mother of Kowiak, Lianne Kowiak, became an anti-hazing advocate. Death caused by head injury. It is unknown if brothers had been drinking since they waited many hours before getting Harrison medical treatment.
The death of Michael Starks sent several fraternity and sorority members to jail in Chi Omega and. Sigma Nu were suspended following the death. Members of Sigma Nu fraternity and Chi Omega sorority were charged with third-degree felony hazing.
The death of pledge Carson Starkey, 18, on December 2, of alcohol poisoning resulted in convictions of members. His parents are now activists. Arman Partamian, a recent Eagle Scout, died from an alcohol overdose.
The parents of Donnie Wade Jr. Physical abuse and overexertion contributed to the death. Alcohol was not a factor. The death of Samuel Mason was called a hazing incident and subsequently resulted thus far in seven arrests in Punishments were unusually light.
Hank Nuwer wrote about the death for the Orlando Sentinel. Victoria Carter. A lawsuit by the mother of a deceased sorority pledge at East Carolina University maintained that the deaths of her daughter and a second pledge were directly caused by sleep deprivation due to hazing. Alcohol was not involved. S igma Alpha Epsilon. One participant was sentenced to six years in prison.
All others received probation. Physical violence caused the death. Alcohol not a factor. Murder as revenge for athletic hazing: Madison High School graduate Carl Ericsson, 73, received life in prison for the revenge killing of one-time Madison athlete Norman Johnson who Ericsson claimed had hazed him as a schoolboy by flipping a jock over his face. Johnson was shot twice at his own home. Theta Chi pledge Philip Dhanens, a pound former football player, died following a weekend binge. He died at a hospital where he had been taken for assistance.
Leonard Serrato, 30, served 90 days for supplying the alcohol, and for strongly encouraging Dhanens to consume copious amounts of rum. Another member, Aaron Raymo, served a day sentence. Theta Chi president Daniel Baker also served a short jail term. Diane Dhanens said. The president of Lafayette College said that a student, Everett Glenn , who died after drinking at a banned chapter of Kappa Delta Rho was a hazing victim.
Members of KDR denied that recruiting had occurred, according to the Lafayette student newspaper. Earlier in , an additional Lafayette College student died after consuming a lethal amount of alcohol on his birthday—a non-hazing death. Alcohol was direct cause. Twenty-two Pi Kappa Alpha members were convicted of various misdemeanor charges. Details below are from an article written by Daily Herald reporter Madhu Krishnamurthy,. The pledges were unable to walk on their own and were taken to the basement of the fraternity house and given buckets to vomit in; they vomited on themselves and each other.
As they began to lose consciousness, their limp bodies were left in different places in the fraternity house such as the kitchen and hallway floors, according to the amended complaint. A fraternity officer sent a mass text message to members ordering them to delete photographs and videos of pledges who were unconscious, the suit alleges. Bogenberger was found dead the morning of Nov.
His blood alcohol content was 0. Reporter Barbara Vitello added the following in her story. Preston Vorhauer. A detective investigating the death of pledge Preston Vorhauer ruled that it was a non-hazing death when the pledge died swimming in a deep reservoir accompanied by fraternity members who failed to keep him afloat when the victim faltered.
The detective ignored my FOIA request. However, the national fraternity and school clearly have policies forbidding asking a pledge to attempt a risky stunt such as this one.
In a lawsuit, the family of Marcus Thomas, 19, blamed his death in an auto accident on his lack of sleep due to Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity of America hazing. Photo and article link. The parents of Robert Eugene Tipton , Jr. Also involved in the suit is a university security officer. The mother alleges a coverup and destruction of evidence. David Shannon. June 26, —I have gone back to look over the death of pledge David Shannon.
Research done by local reporter Sara Salinas many years after the tragedy demonstrates that the UNC Chi Phi chapter clearly created a classic hazing culture. Like the death of Tucker Hipps at Clemson University, David died in a fall under circumstances not percent clear.
Here is what Sara wrote:. The death was originally investigated for ties to hazing, though no connection was ever found. On Oct.
Although the fraternity accepted responsibility for hazing, an investigation by the UNC Greek Judicial Board found the chapter not responsible and imposed no hazing-related sanctions. But the Board ultimately found the event in question was not conducted with malice toward the pledges and found the fraternity not to be in violation of hazing policy. Here is my reasoning.
A hazing death does NOT need to have malice in order for it to be considered a hazing-related death. In many cases, there is no malice. Marvell Edmonson. Holmes , 19, drowned after an initiation similar to the drowning that took two lives at Virginia State. The four defendants charged with hazing were part of the Men of Honor group, police said. They include James A. Mackey, 35 of Midlothian; freshman Cory D.
Baytop, 26 of Newport News; and freshman Eriq K. Benson, 19, of Quinton. Alcohol does not appear to be a factor. SFSU officials alleged that an April death from an alcohol overdose qualified as hazing. The dead youth was Peter Tran. He was blindfolded. His tormentors waited an hour before calling Alcohol was a factor but physical pummeling was direct cause. Wong did not participate in the assault but helped organize the hazing.
Media accounts quoting the father of a suicide as putting blame on hazing practices of Phi Sigma Kappa for causing his son Marquise Braham to leap to his death over Spring Break in March. The family of Armando Villa and his university claim hazing led to the death of the CSUN pledge left barefooted in the rugged Angeles Mountains and forced to find his way home.
My records show that Villa is the second pledge to die in the same mountains on a fraternity dropoff. Although an investigating sheriff at first ruled no hazing was involved in the death of pledge Tucker Hipps from a fall from a bridge, he was on an early-morning run with chapter members and pledges.
The activity is generally outlawed as hazing by most national Greek groups. He was the second Clemson pledge to die at Lake Hartwell. Trevor Duffy died from acute alcohol poisoning after being convinced to chug 60 ounces of vodka. Alcohol hazing. Nolan Burch died with a BAC of. See the stophazing. Dalton Debrick, 18 and an incoming freshman, died of alcohol poisoning while pledging the Alpha Sigma Phi colony. Clayton Real, 18, died of alcohol poisoning following an event that resulted in four individuals facing charges.
He was born in Nepal. Pi Kappa Alpha alcohol overdose at a party. The sudden death of Charlie Terreni, Jr. Regardless of the justification, those who undergo hazing often view the event as a demonstration of their high tolerance for psychological and physical pain. A Alfred University study found that over , college students experienced hazing when trying to join a campus sports team. Among hazed students, over half agreed it was "important to tolerate psychological stress," while one-third believed it was "important to tolerate physical pain.
Hazing's original goal was to humiliate new members of organizations as a means of testing their devotion and helping them bond through a shared experience. But hazing changed at the turn of the century, when violence emerged as a central part of initiation.
Young men started using military hazing tactics in colleges following the Civil War. On his way, he fell off of a cliff and died. Not all frats partake in hazing, of course. But in recent years, the rise of hazing-related deaths, whether due to alcohol or physical abuse, has caused public outcry over the ways the U.
While the media often portrays hazing as specific to college fraternities, many other campus groups also partake in initiation rituals.
Below are some of the most well-known hazing scandals in recent years. Drum major Robert Champion died after members of the school's marching band repeatedly beat him in a hazing ritual known as "Crossing Bus C," an ordeal meant to garner respect from upper-level students.
Particularly notable about Champion's death was the fall of FAMU's previously esteemed marching band, which was suspended for ; the resignation of the university president and band director; and the legal conviction of several band members for felony hazing.
While Champion's death showed the dark side of hazing, it also drew the public's attention to intense hazing rituals and ultimately put the perpetrators in prison. Perhaps more than any other incident, the death of Timothy Piazza redefined the national conversation on hazing.
A Penn State student and Beta Theta Pi fraternity pledge, Piazza had taken part in a ceremony known as "the gauntlet," in which he consumed a high volume of alcohol. He subsequently fell and hit his head repeatedly, including tumbling down a staircase, and died the next morning. Piazza's death, like other hazing incidents, resulted in anti-hazing legislation.
Passed in early , the Timothy J. Piazza Antihazing Law provides stricter punishment and a tiered penalty system for fraternity and sorority members in Pennsylvania. While was the first year in 60 years to lack any hazing-related deaths, due largely in part to the transition to remote learning, swiftly took back any sense of relief schools and parents might have felt. Both incidents — especially that involving Foltz, who was kept alive so his organs could be donated — gained media attention and reignited appeals for schools to crack down on hazing.
As the death toll from hazing rises, parents around the country are increasingly outraged by the lack of action universities are taking to protect students. Alcohol was also a concern, White said, but he was mostly concerned about the lack of information around the party. Eric said he did wish that had he known the VCU chapter of Delta Chi was suspended from to and had recently been reinstated.
If he had known that, he said, he might have encouraged his son to choose another option. And Eric said he thought hazing laws might be enough of a deterrent to protect his son.
In some states, such as California and Pennsylvania , hazing can be prosecuted as a felony. And some states do require universities to track and publicize hazing cases, as is the case in Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Judson Horras leads the North American Interfraternity Conference, an organization made up of 58 fraternities. This group says it has long tried to reduce hazing and alcohol abuse within its chapters. After the deaths of Foltz and Oakes, the interfraternity conference held a virtual town hall meant to provide fraternities with resources to avoid deaths, hazing and alcohol abuse within their chapters.
In the video, Horras says hazing and alcohol abuse are problems for most students and society, but "fraternities have a problem with hazing right now and alcohol combining. Horras argues that fraternities can and do expel wayward members, but that's not enough.
Instead, he says, universities ought to punish students who break hazing rules and that police and local attorneys should be prosecuting these young men. Neither Bowling Green nor VCU have said publicly whether individual members of the fraternities had been suspended or faced disciplinary action, though both universities have suspended the fraternities.
Bowling Green State even hired a former prosecutor to help in the investigation. Delta Chi in a statement encouraged its members to " cooperate with law enforcement enforcement investigative efforts. And Horras and the North American Interfraternity Conference have long supported new laws that define hazing as a felony. The group is supporting efforts in Ohio to pass Collin's Law , a new law that would make any hazing involving drugs or alcohol a felony.
There has to be individual accountability. They have to be criminally prosecuted. On the national level, Congress is considering two bills that would require colleges to track and publicly disclose the hazing incidents on their campuses. Both bills have bipartisan support, though they have been introduced before without passage. But criminal enforcement relies on the willingness of police to enforce crimes and clarity around the circumstances leading to the deaths.
That information is often lacking, as Cindy Hipps knows well. She and her family have still been unable to get clear information about what happened to their son, and he died in Hipps said tougher laws are one of the many changes needed to prevent such deaths.
She questioned, though, how effective they would be if no one is willing to talk about what happened. Part of what is so damaging about young men dying in fraternities is the sense of betrayal it causes within families.
The organizations are supposed to be shaping and guiding young men's lives, not killing them. His mother, Linda, even bought him a new suit for the party where he would be accepted into the fraternity and meet his "Big," the older fraternity member meant to be a mentor. The Oakes family is feeling that frustration, but they're also asking themselves what might have been.
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