In October 2025, several students at Rutgers University engaged in a late-night hazing activity that endangered the life of a new member.
The conduct was particularly unconscionable given that these former members of Alpha Sigma Phi had completed comprehensive anti-hazing training mere weeks earlier.
Their deliberate circumvention of the fraternity’s medical amnesty policy represented not simply a violation of policy but a fundamental betrayal of brotherhood itself. Most critically, their actions that evening inflicted serious harm upon someone they had a moral obligation to protect.
In response, the fraternity’s national headquarters immediately closed the chapter, recommended the students’ eviction from their house and fully cooperated with both criminal and university investigations.
Alpha Sigma Phi vowed that they’d fight to ensure that any individuals either directly or indirectly involved face the most severe consequences possible under New Jersey’s Timothy J. Piazza Anti-Hazing Law and the university’s Code of Student Conduct.
While these measures represent a vigorous institutional response, Alpha Sigma Phi is taking a practically unprecedented additional step.
Last week, the organization announced it has retained counsel to pursue civil litigation against former Rutgers undergraduate members who either perpetrated hazing or failed to appropriately respond upon gaining knowledge of it. These individuals violated terms of their membership, which explicitly prohibited hazing.
Accordingly, the fraternity is leveraging every available legal mechanism to hold these wrongdoers accountable.
This represents a watershed moment in fraternal self-governance. Alpha Sigma Phi is establishing an unambiguous standard: the organization will not shield those who engage in hazing or disregard amnesty protocols.
Moreover, it is institutionalizing an expectation of active responsibility — a categorical rejection of bystander complicity when hazing occurs.
This decision sends an unequivocal message to current and prospective brothers that they will be supported and their safety prioritized.
Fraternity CEO: Rutgers hazing case becomes test of whether Greek life can police itself.
In October 2025, several students at Rutgers University engaged in a late-night hazing activity that endangered the life of a new member.
The conduct was particularly unconscionable given that these former members of Alpha Sigma Phi had completed comprehensive anti-hazing training mere weeks earlier.
Their deliberate circumvention of the fraternity’s medical amnesty policy represented not simply a violation of policy but a fundamental betrayal of brotherhood itself. Most critically, their actions that evening inflicted serious harm upon someone they had a moral obligation to protect.
In response, the fraternity’s national headquarters immediately closed the chapter, recommended the students’ eviction from their house and fully cooperated with both criminal and university investigations.
Alpha Sigma Phi vowed that they’d fight to ensure that any individuals either directly or indirectly involved face the most severe consequences possible under New Jersey’s Timothy J. Piazza Anti-Hazing Law and the university’s Code of Student Conduct.
While these measures represent a vigorous institutional response, Alpha Sigma Phi is taking a practically unprecedented additional step.
Last week, the organization announced it has retained counsel to pursue civil litigation against former Rutgers undergraduate members who either perpetrated hazing or failed to appropriately respond upon gaining knowledge of it. These individuals violated terms of their membership, which explicitly prohibited hazing.
Accordingly, the fraternity is leveraging every available legal mechanism to hold these wrongdoers accountable.
This represents a watershed moment in fraternal self-governance. Alpha Sigma Phi is establishing an unambiguous standard: the organization will not shield those who engage in hazing or disregard amnesty protocols.
Moreover, it is institutionalizing an expectation of active responsibility — a categorical rejection of bystander complicity when hazing occurs.
This decision sends an unequivocal message to current and prospective brothers that they will be supported and their safety prioritized.
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