Eighteen students had already been charged after Mr. Ellis died in Texas, a district attorney in Pennsylvania charged 10 more students in the death of Timothy Piazza, a Beta Theta Pi pledge at Penn State. 400 can be fatal.Īnd on Monday, the day Mr.
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They have been charged in the death of Maxwell Gruver, 18, a freshman who died of alcohol poisoning after a hazing ritual at the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. 3 after a fraternity party the night before, and the university suspended fraternity and sorority activities a few days later.Ī similar case at Louisiana State University resulted in the arrests of 10 current and former students last month. Andrew Coffey, 20, a junior transfer student and Pi Kappa Phi pledge at Florida State, was found dead in off-campus housing in Tallahassee, Fla., on Nov. Ellis’s death and the suspension of Greek activities at Texas State came on the heels of almost identical events at Florida State University. administration and law enforcement during their review of this matter, and have advised all members to cooperate fully,” the statement said. The national organization “will continue to work closely with the T.S.U. It did not explain what the “unrelated matters” were. In a statement late Tuesday, the national Phi Kappa Psi organization said it had suspended the Texas State chapter last week “for unrelated matters,” and that the suspension would continue during the investigation of Mr. Trent Baker, whom the fraternity’s promotional materials list as one of three recruitment captains, declined to comment when reached by phone the other two captains, Austin Rice and Jake Stewart, did not return calls. Phi Kappa Psi members did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent through the fraternity’s Facebook page on Tuesday afternoon. Ellis, 20, was a sophomore transfer student studying business. The police in San Marcos, Tex., where the university is, said at a news conference on Tuesday that alcohol may have been a factor, but that the cause of death would not be confirmed until toxicology results are available, which could take up to two months.
The Phi Kappa Psi pledge, Matthew Ellis, attended a fraternity event Sunday night and was found unresponsive in an off-campus apartment complex the next morning. Joanne Smith, the vice president for student affairs, will oversee the review and ultimately “propose recommendations for reinstating fraternity and sorority chapters that demonstrate a commitment to the core values of Texas State and the ideals established by their respective national organizations,” Dr. Trauth, the university’s president, said in a statement that Greek organizations would be “prohibited from holding new-member events, chapter meetings, social functions and philanthropic activities until a thorough review of the Greek Affairs system is completed.” Texas State University suspended all fraternity and sorority activities on Tuesday, a day after the death of a Phi Kappa Psi pledge - the latest in a string of similar episodes on campuses across the country.ĭenise M.
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