UTA's efforts come as Texas lawmakers advance a bill to crack down on college hazing and require more transparency when such incidents occur. 2. 3. But her case, if it can even be considered a hazing death, would be a somewhat unusual one. "What we're seeing is more proactive action erring on the side of 'let's protect students' while they get all the details.". "The one driving thing we have to remember is the safety, security and well-being of all our students," he said. Some members were forced to recite the Theta Chi creed while old members choked them, the claim said. He did not have the specific number of alleged incidents, and school officials have been reluctant to release many details as the cases are being investigated. The national offices of Phi Gamma Delta, Pi Kappa Alpha and Sigma Alpha Mu also withdrew recognition. e) Pushing, shoving, punching, whipping, beating, tackling or any other physical abuse; Founded in 1856, more On Day 5 of #NHPW20, we look back at Theta Chi Fraternity's anti-hazing roots, which stretches back. q) Engaging in public stunts and buffoonery, public displays or greetings;  (Tom Fox / Staff Photographer). The death of Jordan Hankins is an unusual case of potential campus hazing, but the fallout is following a familiar pattern. No person shall recklessly participate in the hazing of another. Recently, a student nearly died of alcohol poisoning. All rights reserved. In a statement to The Atlantic, the headquarters of AKA emphasized the sorority’s “zero tolerance” policy for hazing: “We consistently educate incoming and current sorority members about behaviors that constitute hazing and the repercussions of such behaviors, including suspension and expulsion.”(Alpha Kappa Alpha, a historically black sorority, is governed by the National Pan-Hellenic Council, which also oversees eight other African American fraternities and sororities, and is distinct from the two umbrella organizations that oversee most other national social sororities and fraternities.) p) Conducting unauthorized scavenger hunts, treasure hunts, quests, road trips, paddle hunts, big brother/little brother hunts; 

But what usually follows, Flanagan writes, is this: The parents will try to turn their grief into meaningful purpose, but they will discover how intractable a system they are up against, and how draining the process of chipping away at it is. Theta Chi Fraternity, Rutgers University . They were Sigma Phi Epsilon and Phi Gamma Delta, which was also cited for hazing. Notable recent examples include two women pledging Delta Sigma Theta at East Carolina University, who died in a car accident in 2010 when a fellow pledge fell asleep at the wheel after an all-night hazing ritual deprived her of sleep, and a woman who died in a car accident in 2003 when she and several other Plymouth State students who were seeking membership in Sigma Kappa Omega, a sorority that was not officially recognized by the college, were passengers in an SUV that crashed during a hazing event.

No student or advisor shall knowingly permit the hazing of another. The policy will be read by the president at the first meeting of the organization each semester and by the new member educator at the first new member/associate member meeting of the semester. The complaint alleges that Jordan Hankins, also a member of the university’s women’s basketball team, was subjected to “physical abuse including paddling, verbal abuse, mental abuse, financial exploitation, sleep deprivation, items being thrown and dumped on her, and other forms of hazing intended to humiliate and demean her” during the hazing process, which triggered her post-traumatic stress disorder and caused the prolonged anxiety and depression that eventually led to her death. n) Forced consumption of food or other substances;  That's a comfort to students like Mikayla Foy, a freshman who was surprised to hear of the allegations surfacing at UTA, which traditionally has had a commuter-school image and has only about 800 students involved in Greek organizations. Eva-Marie Ayala is a veteran education reporter focusing on how local and state policies impact school children. The year before, two women pledging Alpha Kappa Alpha, the same national sorority to which Jordan Hankins was seeking membership, drowned in the ocean during a hazing ritual imposed by the chapter at California State University at Los Angeles. This school year, the Delta Sigma Theta sorority was issued a temporary suspension, with some members removed and other sanctions imposed, after university officials found an instance of hazing.