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Shame on University of Mississippi for withholding a public record:

Old Miss Does the Wrong Thing: It needed to name the suspended fraternity

https://www.actionnews5.com/2024/09/05/ole-miss-places-fraternity-temporary-suspension-following-alleged-hazing-incident/

 

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Dartmouth student writer remembers drowned fraternity member: The Dartmouth

For Won Jang ’26, sharing was second nature — home-cooked food, his love of music and even his optimism. Known for his creativity and warmhearted demeanor, Jang inspired those around him with his profound generosity and care for others.

According to his father, Hongpil Jang, Jang was a gifted musician with a “deep love for music.” He played piano, several Korean instruments, trumpet — winning awards “as one of the top performers on the East Coast” — and even taught himself electric guitar and bass in college. Despite Jang’s own talents, however, he remained most committed to sharing music with others.

“He loved sharing what he had and was proud to be who he was,” Hongpil Jang wrote in an email statement to The Dartmouth. “He created a Korean club at school to teach his friends Korean and voluntarily taught Janggu, Korean drum, to adults in the Delaware Korean School, even performing with them.”

Jang, a biomedical engineering major from Middletown, Del., was reported missing on July 7 and found in the Connecticut River that evening. He died at 20 years old. During his time at the College, Jang served as a project manager at the DALI lab, participated in the TuckLAB entrepreneurship program and mentored international students for the Office of Pluralism and Leadership. He also brought his love of music to campus, co-founding two student bands during his time at Dartmouth — Catalysis, later renamed Silkstream, and Bored Shorts.

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You decide. Justice? Or did Boone County Assistant Prosecutor Nick Komoroski drop the ball?

Columbia Daily Tribune

The dropping of charges in one final University of Missouri hazing case brings an end to at least two years of hearings, trial delays and pleas from the 11 criminally charged after the alcohol poisoning of Danny Santulli on Oct. 19, 2021, at the now closed Phi Gamma Delta fraternity on the MU campus.

Benjamin Karl was to have a hearing Monday, but felony hazing charges were dropped Thursday by Boone County Assistant Prosecutor Nick Komoroski. This follows charges dismissed against other hazing defendants Samuel Lane, John O’Neill and Benjamin Parres after Santulli’s “pledge dad” Ryan Delanty pleaded guilty to reduced misdemeanor charges last month.

Terms of Karl’s case dismissal were not known by time of publication.

Inquiries seeking to confirm dismissal were sent to both Karl’s defense attorney Ben Faber and the Boone County Prosecutor’s office. The Boone County circuit court provided confirmation of case dismissal.

Nearly two dozen civil lawsuits previously were settled. While four defendants had their cases dismissed, seven others, including Delanty, pleaded guilty to reduced misdemeanor charges where most had minimal jail time among other penalties.

 

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7 Hazing Activists Receive Hero Award: Congratulations!

We are all aware of our own mortality and eager to continue trying to change the world in as much as our own limited intellect and abilities allow. With utter gratefulness and full and deserved humbleness, I thank Todd Shelton, the Hazing Prevention Network directors/staff and most of all, the seven winners of the annual award in my name for their incredible efforts to eradicate hazing, particularly in our colleges and schools. At the same time, I salute all previous winners going back many years now, as well as each and every one of my founding director colleagues. With love, Hank Nuwer, Fairbanks, Alaska

 

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