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The University of Missouri-Columbia chapter of the Kappa Alpha Order has been named in a lawsuit alleging hazing and forced consumption on near-lethal amounts of alcohol. In that lawsuit, Brandon Zingale states that as an 18-year-old freshman he and other pledges of the Kappa Alpha Order’s local chapter were “coerced” into participating in a vodka-chugging contest as a part of their effort to join the fraternity, even though the university had put the fraternity on probationtwo weeks earlier for violations…

Texas A&M Hazing Second Fraternity Member Found Dead at Texas A&M University Cause of Death Not Yet Determined Nor Immediately Linked to Fraternity Hazing A second death occurred at a Texas A&M fraternity house in four months. A 20-year old student was found unresponsive at the Sigma Phi Epsilon, commonly referred to as Sig Ep, fraternity house during the evening of December 16, 2016. Investigators have not yet announced the cause of death. The investigation is ongoing, and involves university…

Texas A&M Sigma Nu Fraternity Death In what has all the hallmarks of a college fraternity, 19-year old Anton Gridnev died during the early morning hours of Saturday, August 20. Emergency response personnel were called to the Texas A & M Sigma Nu fraternity house at about 4:30, where they found an unresponsive Gridnev. The university student was not breathing and paramedics performed CPR. Gridnev was taken to an area hospital, where he died. Drugs and Hazing Rituals Although the…