THE INVESTIGATORS: Documents reveal LSU has launched more than a dozen hazing investigations since Dec. 2019

THE INVESTIGATORS: Documents reveal LSU has launched more than a dozen hazing investigations since Dec. 2019
Updated: Mar. 26, 2021 at 5:11 PM CDT
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BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - LSU officials probed 14 reports of hazing among Greek organizations since December 2019, documents obtained by the 9News Investigators reveal.

The university released documents Friday, March 26, more than four months after receiving a request for information from the 9News Investigators, and just weeks after a university board decided to suspend the campus chapter of the Kappa Sigma fraternity for alleged hazing and violating campus COVID protocols.

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Kappa Sigma was investigated three times during the Fall 2020 semester, once in September and twice in October. Both October investigations are still being reviewed.

Campus chapters of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, Sigma Chi fraternity, and Phi Kappa Psi fraternity are also under active investigations for hazing allegations over the last year.

Fraternity/SororityCase #Date of IncidentStatus of Case
Alpha Kappa Alpha20193798012/24/2020Closed on 04/28/2020
Alpha Tau Omega201929080112/14/2019Closed on 03/19/2020
Chi Omega20200522018/24/2020Closed on 12/2/2020
Delta Chi20194074012/18/2020Closed on 09/24/2020
Delta Chi20201029019/24/2020Closed on 11/24/2020
Kappa Sigma20200649019/12/2020Closed on 10/05/2020
Kappa Sigma202012600110/6/2020Still pending
Kappa Sigma202015730110/17/2020Still pending
Phi Sigma Pi20200026018/6/2020Closed on 08/31/2020
Sigma Alpha20200700019/12/2020Closed on 09/29/2020
Sigma Alpha Epsilon20201041019/23/2020Still pending
Sigma Chi20194936012/10/2019, reported on 06/26/2020Closed on 11/2/2020
Sigma Chi20200096012/10/2020Still pending
Phi Kappa Psi202015620210/20/2020Still pending

The Phi Kappa Psi investigation centers on an October incident where campus officials investigated the circumstances behind a student’s hospitalization with severe alcohol poisoning.

The victim reportedly had a 0.451% blood alcohol concentration upon arrival at the hospital, which is nearly six times the legal limit.

East Baton Rouge District Attorney told the 9News Investigators the student’s “oxygen level was down. He was foaming and not able to walk. He had to be put on life-saving measures and his temperature was very low so a lot of things that indicate organ failure was going on.”

Terry Pat Reynolds II was later charged after investigators determined he acted as that student’s “new member educator” on the Pledge Board for the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.

In that role, Reynolds allegedly provided the new members with bottles of alcohol and told them they would not be allowed to leave until they finished an entire bottle. Police records say Reynolds also reportedly coerced new members to drink more if they did not finish the previous bottle fast enough.

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The university is also undergoing a reckoning after several women who previously attended the school raised concerns about how campus crime is handled.

A third-party investigation into those allegations sparked a federal probe by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE).

That investigation centers on compliance with the Clery Act, federal rules enacted primarily to protect victims of sexual assault.

Friday university officials also appeared for a second hearing before Louisiana’s Senate Select Committee on Women and Children at the state’s capitol building.

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