A University of Kansas fraternity house’s locker room was “covered in vomit, liquor, pee, old food, trash, and who knows what else,” one prospective member told investigators. But when some of the frat’s pledges started to clean it up, they were ordered by its members to go immediately to bed without showering. That night, the student alleged, the pledges were forced to sleep in vomit-encrusted sheets.
In a Tuesday letter, the university’s vice provost for student affairs, Tammara Durham, informed both frats that they had been immediately suspended. Their chapters will remain under sanction, banned from the university’s campus, until all its current members have graduated, in 2027. The student alleged that he didn’t sleep for four nights because frat members would sneak into pledges’ rooms and subject them to a ritual called “tacoing,” where beds would be slammed against walls with students folded into the mattresses.
Over at Phi Delta Theta, members concerned about the harm that hazing was wreaking on pledges said they were frequently ostracized by their brothers. One was labeled a “snitch” and a “loser” in the house, and later moved out of the state, the investigation found. Another was strong-armed into watching a movie with a gruesome scene of a dolphin’s slaughter. That member’s name, from then on, became “Dolphin.
Probably time to end Social Greeks.
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