Ohio college student dies amid alleged hazing incident, fraternity chapter suspended
Bowling Green student was pledging Pi Kappa Alpha
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and last updated 2021-03-09 10:22:09-05
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio â Bowling Green State University handed down an interim suspension to one of its campus fraternities Friday due to an alleged hazing activity that resulted in the death of a student.
Stone Foltz, a BGSU student, was hospitalized Thursday after alleged hazing activity involving alcohol consumption at an off-campus Pi Kappa Alpha event. He was in critical condition at the ProMedica Toledo Hospital for three days, according to ABC News.
seems like it might be a no-brainer. i don t know that there is pushback. people don t understand what the bill is and what it does. i think it is our responsibility to educate them so we can get them on the bill as quickly as possible. essentially reporting mechanism. absolutely. our team here for our show couldn t find a single government agency that tracks hazing deaths or hazing incidents. why is that not happening? why are we just having this broader conversation about this? because i think that people thought it was so common place. students think it is common place. most think it is okay. most don t realize they ve been hazed. we educate students on what it means to be hazed and what hazing really is. i think it is important. we were also talking about the incidents that have gone so high profile now. the deaths of some of the students. not just what happened at lsu, but i think about the death in penn state last february, timothy bpiazza. a lot of it, alleged inacti
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11 participants, that s one of them with hazing. in convicted the maximum anyone could face would be six years in prison. again, the question is why not murder or manslaughter charges? one answer says state prosecutors is that it would be tough getting convictions with the evidence that they have. the testimony obtained to date does not support a charge of murder in that it does not contain the elements of murder. we can prove participation in hazing and a death. we do not have a blow or a shot or a knife thrust that killed mr. champion. it is an aggregation of things which exactly fit the florida statute as written by the legislature. well, that statute was written seven years ago with the best intentions to hold people accountable for hazing deaths. you have to wonder, though, does the very fact that it s on the books allow some people to pay lighter penalties for causing someone s death than would otherwise be the case? the attorney for the champion family says so. he
ac 360 starts now. piers, thank you. good evening, it s 10:00 here on the east coast. we begin tonight, keeping them we begin tonight keeping them honest with the question that seems to have no simple answer. how can someone be fatally beaten, kicked and suffocated, allegedly by more than a dozen people, and yet none of those people, not one, face murder or manslaughter charges. that s one key question in the killing of florida a&m band member robert champion. he died from a brutal hazing, and he died from crossing bus c, where the victim is made to walk down the aisle of the band bus while bandmates hit him. in convicted the maximum anyone could face would be six years in prison. again, the question is why not murder or manslaughter charges? one answer says state prosecutors is that it would be tough getting convictions with the evidence that they have. the testimony obtained to date does not support a charge of murder in that it does not contain the elements of murder