Nearly two dozen upstate college frat boys tortured pledges by vomiting and urinating on them and forcing them to eat food off the floor like dogs during alcohol-fueled hazing rituals, according to reports.
Twenty-one student members of the Pi Alpha Nu fraternity at SUNY Plattsburgh are being charged with hazing, criminal nuisance, and unlawfully dealing with a child for giving the underage pledges booze, CBS 4 reports. Six former students also are expected to be charged.
Campus police got a tip in September that the group conducted the repulsive rites, which also included paddling with a wooden board and forced alcohol consumption, in February and September.
The college has suspended the fraternity, whose charter-professed aims are to “promote high standards and ideals in character, fellowship, and scholarship.”
Hazing has become a hot-button issue, especially after a Penn State fraternity tried to cover up a pledge’s death after a night of boozy hazing.