Lawsuit Alleges Hazing (Theta Chi, Lenoir-Rhyne)

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http://www.miamiherald.com/news/flor...y/1166017.html

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Parents say NC hazing game led to son's death

HICKORY, N.C. -- A 19-year-old university student who died last year was repeatedly tackled by members of a fraternity who were hazing him . . . his parents said in a lawsuit filed Friday.

Harrison Kowiak of Tampa, Fla., died after a head injury caused a severe brain hemorrhage, the lawsuit said. The complaint seeks damages and blames Theta Chi Fraternity, the fraternity's members and Lenoir-Rhyne University.

. . . Indianapolis-based Theta Chi Fraternity did not immediately return a call seeking comment. A spokesman for the university also did not return a call seeking comment.

Prosecutors have said investigators found no basis for criminal charges in the death.

. . . Fraternity members eventually realized that Kowiak was badly injured . . . but they attempted to get Kowiak to stand up and walk until he collapsed. The fraternity brothers drove him to a Hickory hospital and told hospital staff that Kowiak had been injured in an on-campus flag-football accident, according to the lawsuit.

Kowiak was airlifted to Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte and died there the following day. . . .