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14-Year-Old Injured in High School Football Hazing Attack In other blogs posted on this site, we have discussed the problem of hazing by college fraternities. In the past week, another report of hazing that resulted in a serious injury has emerged, only this incident involves a high school football team rather than a college fraternity. In today’s post, the fraternity hazing lawyer at the Doan Law Firm will discuss this incident and then explain the possible legal options that may…

In a previous post on this website, we presented a recap of fraternity suspensions for the calendar year 2017. In today’s post, we present a summary of fraternity suspensions for the calendar first quarter of 2018 (January 1 – March 31). The numbers During the first quarter of 2018, our database documented a total of 46 fraternity suspensions (8 temporary or “pending investigation” and 38 suspensions of at least 1 year). The “leader-board” of fraternity misconduct for this period includes…

Although many people view college fraternities as harmless social groups that occasionally “get out of hand” with their initiations and parties, a closer review of the conduct of fraternities reveals some of these organizations have a history of “pushing the limits” of socially-acceptable behavior on the part of their members. In this post our fraternity hazing lawyer will present a summary of our findings from our fraternity misconduct database demonstrating disturbing facts regarding the behavior of some college fraternities. In…

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…