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Virginia Tech has identified over a dozen fraternities that could still be operating after they were suspended from campus for any number of school policy violations, most of which were for hazing and providing alcoholic beverages to minors. This post identifies these “rogue” fraternities and discusses their records at other institutions.

Former LSU Fraternity Member Convicted of Negligent Homicide in Hazing Death In September of 2017 Maxwell Gruver, a freshman at Louisiana State University, died as a direct result of hazing administered by members of the LSU chapter of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. After details of Gruver’s death were made public, the Louisiana legislature passed the “Maxwell Gruver Act,” which criminalized certain specific acts traditionally associated with fraternity hazing. In today’s post, our fraternity hazing lawyer gives a recap of…

Fraternity Hazing and Misconduct Report: Second Quarter 2019 At The Doan Law Firm, our fraternity hazing lawyer maintains an in-house database of reported incidents regarding fraternity hazing and other “misconduct” issues. Since January of 2000, we have documented over 830 confirmed instances of a fraternity being suspended from its host school for hazing-related conduct, with over 350 such suspensions occurring within the past three years. Between April 1st and June 30th of 2019, we were able to document: 22 instances…

The family of a former West Virginia University student has filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit after their son’s fraternity “brothers” waited two hours before calling 911 after he fell at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house. Read this post to learn why Bloomberg.com called Sigma Alpha Epsilon “The Deadliest Fraternity in America.”

The following summary is compiled from multiple sources including The Buffalo News WBFO (NPR), the Buffalo Police Department, and the New York Times. On the night of April 11th 2019 Sebastian Serafin-Bazan, an 18-year-old “pledge” of the University of Buffalo’s Sigma Pi fraternity, was present at the fraternity’s off-campus residence at 69 Custer St in Buffalo’s University Heights area. According to two police sources, Serafin-Bazan’s fraternity “brothers” forced the young man to perform repetitive “exercises” from the late evening of…