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TexasTowelie

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Tue Sep 19, 2017, 07:12 AM Sep 2017

Police: LSU freshman dies after 'potential hazing incident' at Phi Delta Theta fraternity

Maxwell Raymond Gruver, an 18-year-old freshman at Louisiana State University, died Thursday after what authorities are calling a "potential hazing incident" involving the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

Gruver, a native of Roswell, Georgia, was taken from the fraternity on LSU's Baton Rouge campus to the Our Lady of the Lake Hospital on Thursday for a "medical emergency," school spokesman Ernie Ballard said in a news conference. Gruver was later pronounced dead.

Few details about the investigation were available early Friday morning, but authorities said they are looking into allegations that alcohol may have been a factor. An autopsy on Gruver is scheduled Friday, the East Baton Rouge coroner told Nola.com.

"There are allegations that Maxwell's death was related to hazing, but I want to emphasize that this is an evolving situation," LSU President F. King Alexander said in a news conference. "As we have continually warned over and over again, hazing is dangerous irresponsible and unacceptable, and it will not be tolerated at LSU, period."

Read more: http://www.tylerpaper.com/TP-News+National/302330/police-lsu-freshman-dies-after-potential-hazing-incident-at-phi-delta-theta-fraternity

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Police: LSU freshman dies after 'potential hazing incident' at Phi Delta Theta fraternity (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2017 OP
WTF? shenmue Sep 2017 #1
These Groups Have Long Outlived Their Usefulness and Need to be Abolished dlk Sep 2017 #2

dlk

(11,438 posts)
2. These Groups Have Long Outlived Their Usefulness and Need to be Abolished
Tue Sep 19, 2017, 08:45 AM
Sep 2017

At their core, fraternities are deeply exclusionary and promote divisiveness-the antithesis of democracy. They also promote abuse. Given the continuing number of injuries and deaths that are now common from hazing incidents, it's time to move forward the relegate these outdated institutions to the past, where they belong. Lives depend on it.

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