September 25, 1998

MIT Fraternity Is Indicted in 1997 Death of Pledge

A grand jury last week indicted a fraternity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on charges of manslaughter and hazing in connection with the alcohol-poisoning death of a freshman pledge.

Phi Gamma Delta was indicted as an organization. The penalties that a guilty conviction would yield have yet to be determined. Individual officers and members of the fraternity were not charged, nor was the university itself, although the

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