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According to VT Digger and Inside Higher Ed, three Norwich University students are facing criminal charges following an investigation into allegations of branding and waterboarding involving female athletes at the military college in Vermont. One student is being charged with simple assault, one with reckless endangerment and one with both simple assault and reckless endangerment, police said. In addition, they and three other students are being…

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Inside Higher Ed reports that according to recent trends and data from the Piazza Center, women are increasingly mixing alcohol and hazing, which often leads to more dangerous incidents. The article referenced two recent incidents as evidence of a brighter spotlight on hazing within women’s organizations. At Norwich University, a 22-year-old female student on the rugby team was found intoxicated and branded with pliers. Additionally, an incident at…

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The Independent (of the UK) reports that a recent University of Michigan graduate and social media content creator, Eli Rallo, “exposed” in a now-viral video how collegiate members of her former sorority, Sigma Kappa, ranked potential new members. In the video, Rallo reviews an old email that describes a ranking system in which potential new members were scored based on factors such as if they are “weird,” “average,” or “just nice.” Rallo has called the rankings…

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March 7, 2022, marked a year since Stone Foltz, a sophomore at Bowling Green State University, passed away due to fraternity-related hazing, reports the Associated Press. Foltz’s death influenced a new law in Ohio that created tougher criminal penalties for hazing. Bowling Green has hired a hazing prevention coordinator and made it easier for students to report hazing. The university’s anti-hazing policy calls for zero tolerance and expulsion when…

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The family members of Adam Oakes, a Virginia Commonwealth University freshman who passed away after a fraternity hazing incident in 2019, are concerned as their efforts to strengthen hazing penalties are being contradicted by two different versions of an anti-hazing bill passed in the Virginia House and Senate, reports CBS 6 WTVR-TV. The two chambers differ in whether the penalty for hazing resulting in death or serious bodily injury should be…

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Student Life reported that Delta Gamma will cease operations of its college chapter at Washington University in St. Louis. In the article, Assistant Director for Sorority and Fraternity Life James McLendon cited the anti-sorority activism movement, COVID-19, and older members of the chapter graduating as factors that have significantly decreased membership numbers, contributing to the national organization’s choice to remove the charter. Delta Gamma…

Last semester, it came to light that a member of Eta Mu Chapter wrote a text message (prior to joining Theta) that contained racist and extraordinarily hateful speech targeting the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. There is photographic proof of this message which was sent to multiple individuals. News of this text message spread quickly and it is now known to the entire campus and beyond, leading Occidental College to release an official statement on the matter.

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According to The Roanoke Times, a Virginia Senate subcommittee has approved legislation that would enhance preventative measures and strengthen penalties for hazing. Known as Adam’s Law, the legislation follows the death of Adam Oakes, a Virginia Commonwealth University student who died in an alleged hazing incident. The legislation would affect both fraternities and sororities and make hazing education a requirement, require universities to post all…

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Mid-December 2021 through Jan. 4, 2022

Inside Higher Ed, The Daily Beast and other local outlets reported that the Alpha Phi chapter at the University of Alabama expelled a member and stripped the president of her title after racist text messages circulated on social media. The University of Alabama Panhellenic Association posted a statement on Instagram condemning the behavior. The university also released a statement, calling the text exchange, “offensive,…