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Texas State University Suspends Pi Kappa Psi Fraternity for 7 Years Suspension comes after student was brutally assaulted by fraternity members Texas State University has suspended its chapter of the Pi Kappa Psi fraternity for 7 years following an investigation into an October 2019 incident in which a student was attacked and brutally beaten after he was mistaken for a member of a rival fraternity. The suspension comes after the fraternity, its national headquarters, and three fraternity members were named…

College Hazing: It’s Not Just Fraternities and Sports Team, But Sororities Too A considerable amount of attention has focused on fraternity and even ports team hazing in the past decade. Certainly, there have been some horrific incidents that occurred, including truly tragic fraternity hazing that ended the bright lives of young people. What arguably has been underreported is sorority hazing. Sorority hazing continues to cause very significant and even fatal harm to young women every year. Examples of sorority hazing…

The Long-Term Effects of Fraternity Hazing: Injuries that Last for Years The stories seem to everywhere in this day and age: Tales of young men, oftentimes fraternity pledges, who are seriously injured or even killed as the result of hazing. What has been largely overlooked by national fraternities, colleges, and universities, and the media is the stark reality that fraternity hazing can have lasting negative consequences in the lives of people subjected to these insidious practices. The fact is that…

15 College Fraternities Suspended in January At The Doan Law Firm we usually post updates from our fraternity hazing database each calendar quarter along with an annual summary. However, the first month of the new year saw a record 15 fraternities that were suspended by their host schools. In today’s post our fraternity hazing injury lawyer presents a list of college fraternities that were either temporarily suspended pending investigation, suspended for at least 1 year, or permanently expelled by their host…

Former LSU Fraternity Member Sentenced in Hazing Death In a previous post we reported that former Louisiana State University student Matthew Naquin had been convicted of negligent homicide in the September 2017 fraternity hazing death of Maxwell Gruver. As a result of that conviction, in November of last year a judge sentenced Naquin to 5 years in prison, with 2½ years of that sentence suspended. During a court appearance on January 17th of this year, Naquin agreed to revoke his…