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Final 3 MSU players plead guilty in dorm altercation with Iota Phi Theta

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Michigan State football players Oren Wilson, Chris L. Rucker and Myles White each pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and battery charges today as part of a plea agreement in connection with a Nov. 22 altercation on campus.
Wilson, 21, pleaded guilty to two counts of assault and battery before Judge David L. Jordon at 54-B District [...]

Report indicates Alpha pledge at Mercer died of natural causes, not hazing

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A Mercer sophomore found dead in his dorm room in mid-November died of natural causes.
Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones says Ronald Quashie died of pneumonia. Quashie’s death raised concerns at the campus, where officials suspended Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity over the treatment of pledges. Quashie was an APA pledge.
University police chief Gary Collins said the [...]

Vanderbilt officers placed on leave after draw guns on students in NPHC fraternity house

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Three Vanderbilt University police officers have been placed on paid administrative leave after an incident Sunday in which they drew their weapons on students inside the National Pan-Hellenic Council fraternity house.
Officers were responding to a disturbance call at 4:50 a.m. Sunday when they observed things being thrown out of a broken window at the Delphi [...]

Rutgers Sigma Gamma Rho members plead not guilty to hazing

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Six members of a suspended Rutgers University sorority have pleaded not guilty to charges of hazing.
A lawyer for five of the women said Monday that they deny the allegations of paddling Sigma Gamma Rho pledges.
Each woman is charged in Municipal Court with aggravated hazing for allegedly striking several new members on the buttocks with paddles [...]

Murder charge filed against husband of slain Delta Soror

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Alphonza Thomas and Natasha Oris-Thomas made a nice couple, and their relationship appeared solid.
They met when they were students at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. It was there that she majored in science, and he focused on business management. She joined Delta Sigma Theta sorority. He was a member of Omega Psi Phi.
He [...]

Alpha Phi Alpha chapter suspended over treatment of pledges

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Mercer University officials have suspended the campus chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity over the treatment of pledges.
The fraternity has been banned for three academic years and is barred from meeting or participating in school events.
University officials investigated after hearing allegations involving sleep deprivation and paddling. According to the Associate Press, police chief Gary Collins [...]

One Alpha Kappa Alpha problem is solved, another isn’t

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A former Alpha Kappa Alpha staffer says she was fired for telling officials about alleged improper spending of millions of dollars, including President Barbara A. McKinzie (left) funding a wax figure (right) of herself for a Baltimore museum.

A judge dismissed a lawsuit to oust the leadership of the nation’s oldest black Greek-letter sorority, including its [...]

Alpha Kappa Alpha lawsuit dismissed

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A D.C. Superior Court judge yesterday dismissed a widely reported lawsuit aimed at ousting the leadership of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the oldest African-American sorority in the United States.
Judge Natalia Combs Greene used just 17 pages — and several pointed words — to eviscerate the claims of the eight AKA member-plaintiffs who filed the suit last [...]

UPDATE: Rutgers suspends Sigma Gamma Rho chapter in wake of hazing investigation

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The university’s chapter of the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority will remain suspended pending an investigation into charges that six members hazed and paddled a group of prospective pledges earlier this month, officials said Wednesday.
The students, ages 20 and 21, also are accused of restricting the alleged victims’ eating over several days, officials said. The six [...]

Two more MSU football players face charges in brawl with Iota Phi Theta

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Michigan State football coach Mark Dantonio suspended or dismissed 13 players before the Alamo Bowl because of their roles in the Rather Hall altercation.
Oren Wilson, a junior nose tackle from Teaneck, N.J., was not among them. He started in the Alamo Bowl — his 12th start in 13 games — and made one tackle, his [...]