Hank Nuwer, Author; Hazing Deaths Database

Here is the link to the Amarillo story

It seems with all the bad publicity that the number of incident reports are increasing, not decreasing. Sad.

Excerpt:from Globe News. Follow above link to read that newspaper in full.

Ranks closed as word spread Tuesday in Sunray about allegations of hazing in a middle school locker room in the small Panhandle town.

“Things have been very hush-hush,” said Monica Dodson, a mother of two boys at Sunray High School. “It’s a very quiet community. You don’t really hear much.”

The Sunray Independent School District announced this week that school officials and the town’s Police Department are investigating. Sunray Police Chief Tommy Pickering said state Child Protective Services investigators are also looking into the matter.

Parents of students at Sunray Middle School, along with a television news report, said the recent allegations of misconduct at the school involved sexual harassment by eighth-grade football players.

Two Sunray parents who have children at the middle school said they were told the problems began in the locker room and escalated from minor roughhousing and towel popping.

One parent, who declined to identify himself for fear that his son will face retribution from classmates, said eighth-grade football players locked seventh-grade football players in the locker room and turned off the lights. He said some of the eighth-graders then proceeded to place their genitals on some of the seventh-graders’ faces.

The parent said he learned the details of the incident from another parent who has a son on the seventh-grade football team.

Another parent, who declined to identify himself fearing community backlash, said his son, a seventh-grader, was in the locker room when the alleged sexual harassment occurred.

Here is the story link.

Purdue has been one of the longer-running schools insisting on standards for its Greek groups but also residence halls. This goes back

almost 20 years to when a pledge fell from a window while sleepwalking after drinking.

Story link

Excerpt:

If the ruling is upheld, Phi Kappa Theta can no longer be associated with the university for the next two years and may have to close its house on the West Lafayette campus.

Here is the link.

A former president of Rhodes in the 1970s and 1980s was a big supporter of the Committee to Halt Useless College Killings (CHUCK).  Kudos to KAO for the intervention.

The 22 suspended can reapply for admission to KAO.

Excerpt:

On the heels of an ongoing hazing investigation by Kappa Alpha Order officials of the chapter at Rhodes College, the majority of members have been kicked out.

In a concurrent review of the fraternity, all members were re-evaluated, and 22 were “suspended,” according to Larry Wiese, Kappa Alpha’s national executive director. The 22 students can reapply to the fraternity as early as January or as late as 12 months from now, Wiese said.

It depends on how the board interprets the West Virginia hazing statute, it seems.