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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…

The University of Vermont announced that it has suspended all fraternity activities after a 19-year-old man was found dead Saturday (February 2nd) morning. According to a Burlington Police Department spokesman, preliminary autopsy findings indicate that Vermont freshman Connor Gage died from hypothermia and that alcohol intoxication appears to have been a contributing factor. The National Weather Service reported that the overnight temperatures in the Burlington area ranged from 0 to -5°F, with winds of 5 to 10 mph. These conditions…

Regular visitors to our Fraternity Hazing website know that we monitor both the local and national news media for reports of hazing and other types of misconduct by college fraternities. In today’s post, the fraternity hazing lawyers at The Doan Law Firm take a look at how the University of Iowa is dealing with fraternity misconduct involving hazing and alcoholic beverage policy violations. Alcohol Related Fraternity Hazing At about 7:00 AM on April 30, 2017 Camden County (MO) EMS personnel…