VCU prohibits hazing. So does Delta Chi, the fraternity Oakes pledged. After his death, both the school and the fraternity offered their condolences. Oakes wasn't the first Delta Chi member or pledge to die after being hazed.
In , Terry Linn died after he pledged the fraternity's Bloomsburg University chapter in Pennsylvania on "hell night. His mother said he pledged because he was searching for belonging. At the time, a Bloomsburg University spokesperson said the school needs "to do a better job of educating our students about the dangers of alcohol and their responsibilities.
Steven David Judd, the president of his local chapter, died after a night of heavy drinking. Judd's family said in a statement after their son died in that they "hope that Steven's untimely death will be a learning experience for others. Delta Chi declined to comment on what it has learned from the deaths and wouldn't say what changes it might make in the wake of Oakes' death, pointing to previous statements insisting that it doesn't tolerate hazing. VCU President Michael Rao said he wants to make certain none of his students ever again dies from hazing.
On the phone, Rao sounded shaken by Oakes' death. The school said it suspended new member intake for the entire Greek system and is making all fraternity and sorority members undergo new anti-hazing training immediately. He's concerned about hazing, alcohol, drugs and sexual violence in the organizations. For now, the school is focusing mainly on reform measures. Jonathan Zimmerman, a professor of the history of education at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, remains skeptical that reform can work.
Without hazing, how would they decide who is a real man? After co-education began on most campuses, fraternities went from being institutions meant mostly to reinforce and protect class distinctions on campus to also "becoming a primary way that young men define themselves as men," he said.
In that way, said Nick Syrett, a professor of women, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Kansas who has studied the history of Greek life, hazing is a literal test of the male body to prove masculinity. While fraternities condemn hazing when tragedy strikes and insist that it isn't part of their ethos, "many fraternities have demonstrated this is fully in keeping with exactly who they are," Syrett said.
Horras said the deaths of Oakes and Foltz were "terribly tragic and senseless. Hazing, Horras said, is a problem in all aspects of college life, not just in fraternities, and college students often die from alcohol use unrelated to Greek life. Comparing the problem to drunk driving, he said he is certain that if the penalties for hazing are strengthened, the hazing rates will drop.
They did it at their individual properties. They expected collegiality, a place to call home away from home. The virtues of Greek life are supposed to include higher grades and a sense of camaraderie that lasts a lifetime. But you have to be alive to benefit. To join the fraternal brotherhood, Carrington and others were forced to endure months of hazing rituals in the process of pledging.
Their initiation culminated in a series of strenuous calisthenics in a basement. Pipes in the house had backed up, spewing sewage. Fans blew cold air onto them as their would-be brothers had them drink water repeatedly from a 5-gallon jug. They soiled themselves but kept going. For Carrington, it proved too much for his body to handle. He died. Few may have heard Carrington as he suffered, but Smith has been speaking for him since in the hopes of preventing another hazing death. Still, the dread persists.
We don't know who, we don't know where, we don't know when, but we know what's going to happen. Every year for the past two decades, at least one young man has died in connection with fraternity hazing. Yet rush continues, pledge classes carry out antics, and Greek initiations roll on. In , the North American Interfraternity Conference, an organization with 66 fraternities, expects to have more than , members.
Should universities be blamed? Lawsuit says yes. Supporters and active members of fraternities say the deaths are isolated incidents that do not represent the whole of the Greek life experience. Greek organizations get young people involved in public service, they point out, and they connect college students with a built-in network of successful and supportive alumni.
In , four young men died at fraternities, reviving an old discussion: Are the benefits of fraternity membership worth the lives of young adults?
There have been more than hazing deaths at schools in America since the s, according to Hank Nuwer, a journalism professor at Franklin College.
Nuwer says he triple-checks details and conducts interviews to maintain his database of hazing deaths in America. New college students are willing to forgo fraternities' toxic reputations for a ready-made network of friends in a setting where many students may know few people.
Greek organizations also raise money for charity or volunteer their time, which may appeal to civic-minded young men. Consider this: She fell asleep after drinking at a frat — and died. There were many more members than pledges in the roughly played game. Toxicology rulingcame January Alcohol was direct cause of death. Jack Phummarath. Police said hazing may have been a factor in the death of pledge Tyler Cross who died in a fall while under the influence of alcohol.
The college was content to let this death slip under the radar screen with as little public scrutiny as possible. The alcohol-related death of Nikolas Gallegos, 18, at a fraternity party led to a letter to the student paper by a relative who pleaded that no fingers be pointed at anyone in the death. Alcohol was a factor.
The result was 3 dead, one injured. Does not appear to be hazing. Information was corrected and updated October 8, Julie and Gary Sr. She asked him about hazing. He told her not to worry — hazing is illegal in New Jersey,? Sadly Gary Jr. From the moment detectives walked into the fraternity house, they worked the homicide as a hazing case. Two went to the hospital with alcohol poisoning, and one of them died. Gary and the other pledges were hazed numerous times leading up to Big Little Night, the most deadly night of pledging.
There were numerous, less dangerous forms of hazing that took place prior to this lethal night. It started with making and wearing tee shirts with demeaning words, to studying while standing for hours in the basement, to unity pushups and sit-ups in the woods in the dark, to a scavenger hunt stretching from New Jersey, to New York City, to Philadelphia way into the early hours.
From Gary and Julie Devercelly: To this day we still do not know all of the details of this deadly night. Somehow Gary Jr. 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.
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