Fraternity member to write paper on hazing, pay fines after incident
 

An Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity member will have to write a paper on hazing and pay restitution after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor charge of hazing.

Lyall Cobb Storandt, 22, entered his plea on Friday in connection with the beating of a 20-year-old pledge at Oklahoma State University earlier this year.


http://www.ocolly.com/2007/11/05/fra...fter-incident/

I'm mad that some people haven't learned from the mistakes of others yet.

Maybe there aren't enough facts out yet, but I have to wonder why one member is requesting a trial which could potentially lead to him having a criminal record and serving jail time when another member has already accepted a punishment that will leave him with a clean record.

That plea bargain deal really isn't much of a punishment anyway. Any decent college student can crank out a five-page paper easily. Maybe the judge is trying to make the young man compose an official statement regarding hazing. Or maybe he always secretly wanted to be a K-12 principal.

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN!!! they was gonna have the chapter off the yard for 15 years??? thats just as bad as taking away their charter. shit, 5 years is still long enough too. but with the way some greeks, you might have a few renegades running around...

I don't know the specifics, but yea, 15 years does seem a bit excessive. I thought the purpose of removing a chapter from a campus was to give enough time for all of the current members to finish up with school? If that's the case, 5 years should be more than enough.


Co-sign. I'll be damned if my degree is put at risk because some overzealous brother wants to mess with some pledges/new members. I guess some people need to be knocked on their asses before logic sets in. :rolleyes:

It sounds like this guy may have had the least to do with the hazing, i.e., knew about it, but did not actively participate.