My colleague Dean Harwood has taken my list of hazing deaths and broken down the incidents into easily understood categories. I will excerpt here, but I recommend you read his entire blog post.
Nice job, Mr. Harwood.
Using information from Hank Nuwer’s list of hazing deaths, this is the 50th entry for a college student’s death from hazing/pledging since we moved into the 2000s.
Of those 50 deaths:
- Four have been from Asian/Asian-Interest Fraternities.
- Six have come from National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) chapters.
- Nine are from unrecognized/suspended/local/sub-rosa groups.
- Two are non-fraternity/sorority related.
- 29 come from 17 different NIC member fraternities.
- Five women have died, 45 men.
- Four incidents have resulted in two deaths, one incident had four deaths.
- Lambda Phi Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Theta Chi have each had three deaths at three different campuses.
- California State-Chico has had three deaths from three different incidents.
- November (11) and February (9) are the deadliest times of the year.
Here are some details. You can check for additional information on Hank Nuwer’s list.
Non-Fraternity/Sorority (2)
Minnesota-Duluth Rugby
Florida A&M Band
Asian Fraternities (NAPA) (4)
Lambda Phi Epsilon
- San Francisco State
- UC-Irvine
- Texas
Pi Delta Psi
- Baruch College
NIC Member Fraternities (29)
Alpha Tau Omega
- University of Georgia
Chi Psi
- Colorado
Delta Kappa Epsilon
- Yale (4)
Delta Tau Delta
- Wabash College
- Northern Colorado
Kappa Sigma
- University of Miami
Phi Kappa Tau
- Bradley University
- Rider University
Phi Sigma Kappa
- Maryland
Pi Kappa Alpha
- Nevada – Reno
- Northern Illinois
Pi Kappa Phi
- California State – Chico
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
- Texas
- Cal Poly
- Cornell
Sigma Alpha Mu
- Delaware
Sigma Chi
- Oklahoma
Sigma Nu
- Utah State
Sigma Pi
- California State – Chico
Tau Kappa Epsilon
- San Diego State (2)
- Radford University
Theta Chi
- Indiana University
- Lenoir-Rhyne College
- Fresno State
Zeta Beta Tau
- Alfred University
NPHC Fraternities/Sororities (6)
Alpha Kappa Alpha
- California State – Los Angeles (2)
Delta Sigma Theta
- East Carolina University (2)
Omega Psi Phi
- Tennessee State
Phi Beta Sigma
- Prairie View A&M
Unrecognized/Local/Sub Rosa/etc. (9)
Chi Tau
- California State – Chico
Delta Gamma Iota
- Vincennes University
Kappa Delta Rho
- Lafayette College
Kappa Phi Theta
- Rochester Institute of Technology
Men of Honor
- Virginia State (2)
PIGS Drinking Club
- SUNY – Geneseo
Psi Epsilon Chi
- SUNY – Plattsburgh
Sigma Kappa Omega Sorority
- Plymouth State (NH)
Summary by Year
- 2000 – 2
- 2001 – 4
- 2002 – 7
- 2003 – 8
- 2004 – 2
- 2005 – 3
- 2006 – 1
- 2007 – 1
- 2008 – 5
- 2009 – 2
- 2010 – 3
- 2011 – 3
- 2012 – 5
- 2013 – 4
Summary by Month
- January – 5
- February – 9
- March – 3
- April – 5
- May – 1
- August – 2
- September – 5
- October – 6
- November – 11
- December – 3
