Courthouse News Service says pledge suit includes serious allegations of abuse

LINCOLN, Neb. (CN) – Sigma Chi Fraternity at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln subjected a pledge to violent hazing, including being sodomized by a stripper while others watched, and other degrading, assaultive and racist actions, the pledge claims in Lancaster County Court. He claims that pledges were repeatedly threatened not to report the assaults and degradation to police or to “Greek Affairs.”
Michael McCoolidge sued nine individuals, the Sigma Chi Building Corp., Alpha Epsilon Chapter of Sigma Chi at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Sigma Chi Corp., and Sigma Chi Fraternity.