Working parties for new members only, preventing personal hygiene, causing indecent exposure. Physical harassment such as pushing, cursing or shouting etc. Required dressing in opposite sex's clothes, attending in a Hell week activities before being initiated. Practice periods of silence, and any other activity, which may result in physical, emotional, or mental harm. Two fraternity pledges were killed in Louisiana State University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Both died of alcohol poisoning after fraternity members supplied them with alcohol and coerced them to drink. They drank themselves to death. A student at Texas University, died after the Cowboys "picnic." He drowned in a nearby creek with a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit. The organization was banned for five years and upon returning two or more years on probation. In Boston, in 1997, an investigation was conducted after a former fraternity member binge drank and died. Scott Krueger, 18, of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died following a night of binge drinking at a fraternity. The Sigma Chi fraternity was investigated for hazing after the house was caught on fire. Candles were lit for and initiation. The fraternity was charged with hazing and suspended until May 1999. In February 1994, in Missouri State University, Micheal Davis blacked out after going through a "seven station circle of physical abuse." Davis suffered from lacerated kidney and liver, broken ribs and bruises on his upper body. In another incident, 10 cadets of the Citadel Military College were charged with hazing. Two women cadets reported that they were victims of hazing. Their clothes were set on fire while wearing them. At Alfred University in New York, a football game was forfeited due to hazing of veteran teammates. Five freshmen players were allegedly treated for alcohol poisoning after an off-campus party. The Chi Upsilon was found guilty of hazing.
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