January 25, 2002

Fraternity Chapter in Tennessee Is Punished for Hazing

The East Tennessee State University chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity may have set a new standard for hazing.

The fraternity's activities were suspended in December for 18 months, following reports from three pledges that they had been doused in urine, deprived of sleep, pelted with eggs, and forced to drink rotten milk, make "snow angels" with ketchup, and crawl through a gantlet of garbage and broken glass.

"I'm not saying that we haven't had hazing, but this is very

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