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Update

A few more details alleged; the news source credits the campus paper at Alabama with the report:

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/...0News/2069693/

Edited to add:

The Crimson White article is at:

http://www.cw.ua.edu/sig_ep_hazing_details_emerge

Excerpts:
. . . one of the pledges went to DCH Regional Medical Center for burn treatment several days after the incident occurred. The wounds were discovered in an advanced stage of infection, and the pledge suffered a collapsed lung as a result of the infection.

Soon thereafter, the University received a call from “an outside source,” said Tim Hebson, dean of students. The call informed the Office of the Dean of Students of the hazing incident.

. . . Hebson said his office would conduct an investigation of the incident, following “due process.”

The fraternity’s suspension, Hebson said, was invoked by the Sigma Phi Epsilon national chapter, which enacted the punishment before the University could carry out any action.

Aaron Jarnger, director of marketing and communications for the Sigma Phi Epsilon national chapter, said the University contacted the national chapter with information from a confidential source.

He said staff members from the national chapter were sent to the University to investigate the incident.

“If there’s some evidence of hazing, we conduct an investigation,” Jarnger said.
Jarnger said he could not release any details of the incident because it is still under investigation.

Hebson said the fraternity’s local Alumni Board submitted a list of about 30 names for investigation. His office will hold hearings to determine what type of actions will be taken toward the individuals in question.

. . . Hebson did say, however, that their investigation is more about finding the individuals responsible for the hazing incident and not punishing the chapter as a whole.

. . . Ralph Clements, president of the fraternity’s local Alumni Board, said board members conducted an investigation as well.
. . . the [alumni] board asked questions to anyone who may have been involved, compiled the list of names that was submitted to the Office of the Dean of Students and wrote a summary of what they uncovered. . . .