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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Suspended at Missouri University S&T
ROLLA, Mo. ― The Missouri University of Science and Technology has suspended the small Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and is making students move out of the fraternity house after two new members were hospitalized. The students were injured Thursday during an event at the fraternity house in Rolla, university spokesman Andrew Careaga said, adding that […]
October 18, 2016
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Lawsuit says Brown University Protected Trustee’s Son in Drugging Case
PROVIDENCE, R.I. ― A female former Brown University student is suing the Ivy League school over how it handled her allegations that she was drugged at a fraternity party and later sexually assaulted. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Providence, raises the question of whether Brown dropped a disciplinary proceeding against the […]
October 13, 2016
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University of Missouri’s Kappa Alpha Fraternity Temporarily Suspended
COLUMBIA, Mo. ― The University of Missouri-Columbia says it has temporarily suspended a fraternity after a hazing incident. The university on Monday announced the action against the Kappa Alpha fraternity but provided no details about the alleged hazing that occurred last week. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the action comes after police investigated a […]
October 3, 2016
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Missouri Fraternity Suspended Over Reports of Racial Slurs
COLUMBIA, Mo. ― The University of Missouri temporarily suspended a fraternity on Wednesday over accusations of racial slurs directed toward black students, in the latest incident of racial tension that has roiled the campus for nearly a year. The university action followed the national organization of Delta Upsilon fraternity, which suspended the chapter earlier on […]
September 29, 2016
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Terre Haute Police Investigate Violent Fraternity Party
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. ― Terre Haute police are investigating a weekend party on the city’s north side that resulted in at least 30 shots fired, two people injured and one arrest. The party at the Indiana National Guard Armory involved Indiana State University’s Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, the Tribune Star reported. Police say thousands of […]
September 13, 2016
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Fraternity at University of Richmond Suspended Over Inappropriate Email
RICHMOND, Va. ―A University of Richmond fraternity has been suspended over what the school called a “grossly offensive” email that described a party as one that “makes fathers afraid to send their daughters away to school.” The fraternity’s suspension comes as the school faces scrutiny over its handling of alleged sexual assaults after two female […]
September 13, 2016
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Teen Arrested in Shooting at Texas Fraternity Party
AUSTIN, Texas ― An 18-year-old man who admitted shooting a security guard in the foot after being kicked out of a party at a University of Texas fraternity house over the weekend has been arrested, police said Monday. Daniel Hamilton Magee, who isn’t a UT student, was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon […]
September 12, 2016
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Security Guard Injured in Austin Fraternity House Shooting
AUSTIN, Texas ― Officials are searching for three suspects after a security guard was injured in a shooting at a party at a fraternity house near the University of Texas at Austin. The University of Texas at Austin Police Department says the shooting happened early Sunday at the Sigma Chi house, located off-campus. UT police […]
September 11, 2016
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Fraternity Suspends Texas A&M Chapter after Student’s Death
COLLEGE STATION, Texas ― The Sigma Nu fraternity has suspended all activities of its Kappa Sigma chapter at Texas A&M University following the death by drug overdose of a member last weekend. A statement Thursday from the Lexington, Virginia-based fraternity announced the suspension while an investigation into the death of 19-year-old Anton Gridnev of Frisco […]
August 25, 2016
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Former Oregon State Fraternity Member Found Guilty of Rape
CORVALLIS, Ore. ― A former Oregon State University student has been found guilty of raping a woman at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity last year. The Corvallis Gazette-Times reports that Tyler Lazell Warren on Wednesday was found guilty of rape, sexual abuse and burglary in connection with the July 2015 incident at the fraternity. Warren […]
July 28, 2016
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2 Towson University Students Charged in Fraternity Hazing Incident
TOWSON, Md. ― Two students in Maryland face criminal charges after authorities say a fraternity hazing incident left a third student hospitalized. Baltimore County police say 21-year-old Evan Palmer Francis and 21-year-old Alexander James Cantor of Towson University were charged Wednesday with hazing and reckless endangerment. Police spokeswoman Elise Armacost says a 19-year-old unidentified male […]
July 28, 2016
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South Carolina Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Alabama Sorority Scam
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ― A South Carolina lawyer pleaded guilty to bank fraud in a scam involving construction of a $14 million, 40,000-square-foot sorority house at the University of Alabama, prosecutors said Wednesday. Jennifer Elizabeth Meehan, 39, of Sandy Springs, South Carolina, pleaded guilty Tuesday during a federal court hearing in Huntsville to submitting false invoices […]
July 13, 2016
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