Hank Nuwer, Author; Hazing Deaths Database

Matthew Rice, 20, is indicted on a serious charge for allegedly giving alcohol to a pledge that died.

Link to  the Daily Orange story here By Catherine Leffert, Daniel Strauss

From moderator Hank Nuwer

1. Your fraternity encourages or coerces pledges into drinking. A bottle exchange is not a gift. It’s a weapon that has killed over and over.
2. Your chapter has members who physically haze in lineups or administer “wood” with impunity.
3. Your high school team has players who think it their right to touch and taunt rookies.
4. Your sorority shares or trades pledges with a fraternity.
5. Your chapter thinks it is a hoot to drop pledges far from home with no identification.
6. Your chapter makes pledges go on some kind of forced march.
7. Your chapter makes pledges eat unpleasant substances that can make someone gag and choke.

8) You make pledges swim or wade in deep waters.

Five young men have accepted a plea deal and will serve jail time for the hazing death of a Florida State University student from South Florida.

The men originally faced up to five years in prison for a felony hazing charge before agreeing to plead guilty to a misdemeanor hazing charge.

Four of the men — Kyle Bauer, Brett Birmingham, Christopher Hamlin and John Ray — will serve 60-day jail sentences and a fifth, Conner Ravelo, will serve 30 days after cooperating with the investigation, the Tallahassee Democrat reported.

The men were in the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, where 20-year-old Andrew Coffey died of alcohol poisoning in November.

Before joining a fraternity, read this https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/12/us/fraternity-sorority-overview/index.html