Dartmouth Will Investigate Alleged Fraternity Hazing
 

Dartmouth will reportedly investigate the extent and nature of alleged hazing in its fraternities. Recent articles about allegations and reactions to them include:

http://www.telegram.com/article/2012...120309892/1052

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...3401-M09OY.DTL

Update March 5, 2012

Dartmouth's president, others express concerns about alleged hazing issues

http://thedartmouth.com/2012/03/05/news/sae

Excepts from much longer article ^^):

“By Ashley Ulrich, The Dartmouth Staff
Published on Monday, March 5, 2012
Correction appended

The College has charged Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity with allegedly violating hazing regulations, but charges have not yet been finalized, according to Justin Anderson, director of media relations for the College. The College is also creating a task force to address hazing and its relationship with binge drinking and sexual assault on campus, College President Jim Yong Kim said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

. . . SAE leadership has also met with faculty and staff members to consider potential changes to the “pledge process” for 2012, seeking input from both other fraternity members and members of the community, according to Anderson, who said their initial proposals are “promising” and could potentially be applied to other student groups.
“It’s not our policy to comment on specific charges,” Anderson said. “This is an ongoing investigation related to potential hazing activity.”

. . . Kim said he is aware of the recent local and national press coverage of hazing at Dartmouth and that the appropriate judicial response is underway.

“It’s really important, and I hope that people know that this administration has taken a very aggressive approach to student safety,” he said. “That is my first and foremost responsibility, so I could not possibly take it more seriously.”

. . . Kim said he is as committed to preventing hazing and sexual assault on campus as he is to addressing binge drinking, an issue on which he has focused since becoming president of the College.

. . . Kim said his own ability to confront hazing issues within the Greek system is limited by his functional role within the College and the need for coordination between himself, other administrators, members of the Board of Trustees and faculty, which must be combined with input from students and staff.

. . . Students must join the effort and report any hazing violations they may experience or witness, Kim said. Since the problem is not confined solely to the Greek system but also involves other student organizations and sports teams, the solution requires coordination and commitment among all students and student groups, he said.
“Some people want to talk about changing the Greek system fundamentally,” Kim said. “. . .but you have to look at everybody. This is not just the Greek system that does [hazing].”

. . . Faculty and alumni have also mobilized to express their condemnation of the Greek system’s habitual hazing violations and their frustration with the way the administration has addressed the situation.

On Feb. 2, 105 faculty members signed a formal letter to the administration that referred to hazing as an “open secret for decades ... in opposition to the values that the College holds dear.”

A small group of alumni also responded on Feb. 18, pledging to stop donations to the College until administrators increased their efforts to curb hazing at the College. . . . “

Update Mar. 7 '12: An SAE's view about, and response to, recent allegations and plans for investigation

See

http://thedartmouth.com/2012/03/07/opinion/mahoney


ETA: Additional info in news story (address below):

http://thedartmouth.com/2012/03/07/news/sae

Update: Possible Changes at Dartmouth

Anyhoo ---- Dartmouth's president has been nominated to head the World Bank. If he gets that position, Dartmouth will have to get a new president. All that uncertainty just might derail or slow down any decisions about anything of any importance at Dartmouth, right? Including any major, or fairly major, changes in the Greek system?

See

http://www.chicagotribune.com/busine...,5170465.story

Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy: Inside Dartmouth's Hazing Abuses

A Dartmouth degree is a ticket to the top - but first you may have to get puked on by your drunken friends and wallow in human filth



Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/...#ixzz1qRBTSWXc

Jim Yong Kim and Dartmouth’s culture of sexual assault
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmo...exual-assault/

Dartmouth Fraternity Says Most Charges Dropped
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/d...opped-16024068


College drops 24 of 27 hazing charges against SAE members
http://thedartmouth.com/2012/03/28/news/hazing

Dartmouth has dropped charges against the 27 individual Sigma Alpha Epsilon members.
Please see

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...tten-food.html

See also the following, which emphasizes that -- reportedly -- charges against the chapter (as opposed to individuals) still stand:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...flS_story.html

Update April 21, 2012: Dartmouth SAE Gets Three Terms of Probation (Hazing, Alcohol)

http://thedartmouth.com/2012/04/20/news/sae/print

Excerpts from ^^:
“By The Dartmouth Staff
Published on Friday, April 20, 2012
Web Update
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity has been sentenced to a three-term probationary period — in addition to “an extensive series of educational requirements” — for alleged hazing violations, according to a campus-wide email from Associate Dean of Campus Life April Thompson.

“The Organizational Adjudication Committee (OAC) panel found SAE responsible for engaging in hazing and disorderly conduct in 2009 and for providing alcohol to underage students in 2009 and 2011,” Thompson said.

In her email, Thompson wrote that SAE admitted to specific acts in 2009 that constitute hazing including driving blindfolded students off campus and having pledges enter a “splash pool filled with food.”

The OAC, a panel composed of “students, faculty and staff,” however, did not find substantial proof of all of the accused violations.

“The OAC did not find a preponderance of evidence that SAE engaged in the most egregious of the allegations detailed in the report and did not find a preponderance of evidence that SAE hazed new members in 2011,” Thompson said in the email.”

Now there seems to be some push-back on story and book: There Are Some Major Problems With The Dartmouth Fraternity Tell-All http://www.businessinsider.com/probl...ell-all-2014-8