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Another Unauthorized SUNY College Fraternity in trouble; arrests, explusions follow

A special Fox 28 report: excerpt follows

 

Criminal charges are being filed against seven members of an unsanctioned SUNY Canton fraternity involved in an alleged off-campus hazing incident.

Canton Police Sgt. Basil Cheney tells 7 News that criminal summonses are being issued for the former Zeta Alpha Phi fraternity members.

The seven will face misdemeanor first degree hazing charges.

Cheney said he consulted with the district attorney’s office and the victim and “the victim has decided to pursue charges and in ths case, we’ve drawn up paperwork and we’re going to be getting criminal summonses shortly.”

Cheney declined to release the names of the students until they are arrested.

All those charged will appear in Canton village court January 22.

The alleged hazing incident occurred at the 72 Miner Street fraternity house on or around November 4.

One student was allegedly branded with the letter Z with a hot coat hanger while another was severely bruised after being repeatedly struck on the buttocks with a paddle.

“We’re fortunate that the victim wasn’t seriously injured,” Cheney said.

As a result, the college expelled two students and suspended five others.

By Hank Nuwer

Journalist Hank Nuwer is the Alaska author of Hazing: Destroying Young Lives; Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing, High School Hazing, Wrongs of Passage and The Hazing Reader. He has written articles or columns on hazing for the Sunday Times of India, Toronto Globe & Mail, Harper's Magazine, Orlando Sentinel, The Chronicle of Higher Education and the New York Times Sunday Magazine. His current book is Hazing: Destroying Young Lives from Indiana University Press. He is married to Malgorzata Wroblewska Nuwer of Warsaw, Poland and Fairbanks, Alaska. Nuwer is a former columnist for the Greenville (Ohio)Early Bird and former managing editor of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner in Alaska.
Nuwer was named the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists columnist of the year in 2021 for his “After Darke” column in the Early Bird. He also won third place for the column in 2022 from the Indiana chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. He and his wife Gosia, recently of Union City, Ind., have owned 20 acres in Alaska for many years. “The move is a sort-of coming home for us,” said Nuwer. As a journalist, he’s written about the Alaskan Iditarod sled-dog race and other Alaska topics. Read his musings in his blog at Real Alaska Daily--http://realalaskadaily.com and in his weekly column "Far from Randolph" in the Winchester Star-Gazette of Randolph County, Indiana.

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