Dartmouth Will Investigate Alleged Fraternity Hazing

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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

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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.”