Educate yourself about hazing
 by Hank Nuwer



 

Question One: Can you name the activist who fought for strengthening of the Illinois hazing law following the death of her son at Western Illinois University?




Question: What schools have had more than one hazing or pledging-related death?

Answer: University of Texas, Cornell University, Tennessee State University, University of Nevada-Reno, Chico State University, Louisiana State University, Texas A & M, University of Missouri-Rolla, University of Missouri-Columbia; Grove City College (Pennsylvania); Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Indiana University (one mainly due to illness, according to school; family disputed that); Yale University (also disputed by national)

Scott Krueger, MIT pledge dead in hazing



May 11, 2003

Question: Who was the first pledge to die in a fraternity hazing?


Answers:

Answer One: Alice Haben. Her son Nick died in 1990 in a hazing incident in which he drank a lethal amount of alcohol purchased by lacrosse club veterans at WLU.

Answer Two: Answer: University of Texas, Cornell University, Tennessee State University, University of Nevada-Reno, Chico State University, Louisiana State University, Texas A & M, University of Missouri-Rolla, University of Missouri-Columbia; Grove City College (Pennsylvania); Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Indiana University (one mainly due to illness, according to school; family disputed that); Yale University (also disputed by national)

Answer Three: Mortimer N. Leggett, 1873, Cornell University, Kappa Alpha Society