After a nearly 51-year hiatus, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a fraternity whose Dartmouth chapter garnered a lot of negative press after former brother Andrew Lohse revealed all the butt beer and vomletes its pledges were forced to consume, is returning to Columbia University, where students are organizing a friendly…

The hazing horror story is fast becoming its very own genre of longform journalism, and like any genre, certain expectations need to be met. These chronicles feature insulated, secretive communities (you might even say cults) of young adults seeking some form of social validation and quite willing to subject either…

Hazing has recently replaced bullying as the longstanding trend of macho assholes getting off by terrorizing others that the media suddenly seems to have discovered, so it was only a matter of time before someone wrote an op-ed defending the practice. That someone is Snowden Wright, a former Dartmouth SAE member —…

Nine Boston University students believed to be members of the fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi are under investigation after the Boston Police Department discovered five apparent pledges covered in red welts, missing chunks of hair where their heads had been shaved, and "dressed only in their underwear standing in the…

After Andrew Lohse, the former Dartmouth frat boy who revealed some dark secrets about the hazing rituals that are apparently commonplace on campus, there's been a lot of discussion about what exactly goes on in the bowels of fraternity houses. (Kiddie pools full of bodily fluids and eating something called a vomlet,…

If you want to take a tour through the dark, vomit-coated frat houses of Dartmouth College, read Janet Reitman's Rolling Stone story from yesterday on Andrew Lohse, the SAE bro defector who in January wrote a much-maligned op-ed in the student paper The Dartmouth, calling for the overhaul, if not the outright…

Another day, another scary hazing story: today, a former Zeta Phi Beta pledge at UC Berkeley accuses her ex-sisters of beating her, making her pee her pants, and lots of other horrible behavior. Her lawsuit also reveals why for some pledges, it can be so hard to simply leave.

A former Dartmouth frat boy has accused his ex-frat of disgusting hazing practices involving vomit, shit, urine, and what can only be termed "butt beer." Dartmouth authorities say his allegations are false, but are these hazing practices merely par for the course?

Seven sorority members from the University of Maryland have been charged with assault for a violent hazing incident in which they choked and paddled a pledge. And their crimes may be part of a national pattern.

In a new hazing ritual, rookie relief pitchers are forced to carry gear and snacks for the rest of the bullpen in colorful backpacks meant for little girls. It's hard not to snicker at the image of a top athlete carrying a little cartoon pack, but the tradition also says something about gender politics and the culture…

The cheerleaders at Jackson High School in Everett, WA, have probably been watching a lot of Dazed And Confused lately.

At least one frat has gotten the message that making pledges chug alcohol isn't cool, but their alternate hazing ritual had equally disastrous results. 19-year-old University of Virginia student John Paul Boldrick ended up in the intensive care unit earlier this month after downing an entire bottle of soy sauce while…

This image is making the rounds on the Internet. At left is a Sophomore pledge to Cornell's Sigma Phi fraternity; at right, a Senior brother. And apparently what we're looking at is some part of the classy hazing process.

Five former members of an Idaho high school basketball team are accused of imprisoning teammates and penetrating them with foreign objects as part of a horrible hazing ritual. Now they're facing sex crime charges.

If there was any doubt that sororities can be every bit as bad as frats, let's dispel it with this tale of all-female hazing.