BREAKING: Miami University To Cease Pledge Process After Numerous Pledge Incidents
Update 5:09 p.m.
Statement from the university.
The success of our students is paramount at Miami University. The Greek system is among many co-curricular programs providing leadership opportunities for thousands of students. The university is committed to ensuring both the positive growth of each fraternity and sorority member during their time as a Miami student and, most important, their health and safety. Over the past few weeks we received reports related to the fraternity new-member process that have led to serious concerns, and we are thoroughly investigating all of them.
Miami does not tolerate hazing. Behaviors that endanger the health or safety of others violate the values of our fraternal organizations as well as of the university.
Among steps taken in response to those negative behaviors is that the student-led Interfraternity Council, with full support from Miami University, is requiring chapters to initiate their new members by Friday, Feb. 26. By ending the new-member process for this spring earlier than scheduled, our fraternity community will be able to communicate expectations and monitor behaviors more quickly.
Still no fucking clue what happened, but fraternities must initiate pledges by this Friday now rather than the originally reported Sunday deadline.
Update 4:54 p.m.
Still no word from IFC or an official statement from the university, causing speculation to run rampant and turn this whole ordeal into a clusterfuck of rumors. All we can confirm so far is the mandated end to the spring pledge process.
A flood of emails are coming in from Miami University, all with the same narrative that IFC has sent out a mandate after a presidents meeting that every fraternity on campus must initiate their pledges by Sunday or face a lengthy, multiple-year suspension.
One of those emails is below.
Some news that literally just broke a few hours ago: MIAMI UNIVERSITY HAS MANDATED THAT ALL FRATERNITIES IMMEDIATELY CEASE THE PLEDGING PROCESS. All new pledges must be initiated by Sunday night. Typically the pledge process would last another 5-6 weeks. This is in response to the 27 kids that have been sent to the hospital since the beginning of rush (rush started January 25th), and most recently a pledge being life-flighted and subsequently flat-lining and being revived in the hospital. I can assure the credibility of this as I am currently a student and pledge in a fraternity here on campus. Miami has 30 fraternities, of which 6 of them are suspended/kicked off, and talks of 3 more being suspended are swirling around. Crazy time to be in greek life here at Miami U.
The rumor mill in Oxford is smoking hot with speculation right now. It sounds like Miami is in complete crisis mode.
Evidently, there’s also been a record number of hazing reports this past semester, and multiple tipsters have thrown out allegations of pledges getting waterboarded. Just a crazy time to go to school at “Mother of Fraternities.”
We’re currently awaiting a statement from IFC and we’ll update this story as it develops.
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I go to Miami, it’s crazy right now. Bid parties were way too over the top and people left and right were getting taken to the hospital. Fraternities continued to haze with alcohol as the semester continued and now we’re all fucked.
10 years ago at 11:32 amGrew up in Oxford, saw this coming, but to be fair Miami is the essence of Total Frat Move.
10 years ago at 11:33 amWith Obama trying to close GITMO I’d be fine with sending the inmates to these Miami frats
10 years ago at 11:39 amThere goes the neighborhood
10 years ago at 11:52 am“…but none of us really know what is true anymore.” Good pledge.
10 years ago at 12:11 pmWoah, what happened with this guy’s statement? TRSM. At least say the update has been redacted. And why.
10 years ago at 12:55 pmI go to Miami, and the only thing I can say about all of this is that there is two or three fraternities that have been going overboard with their hazing and they’re ruining it for all the other frats that aren’t being stupid about their pledge process.
10 years ago at 12:24 pmThat’s too bad. I was looking at schools in Michigan/Ohio to transfer to in order to be closer to family. Miami was at the top of the list because of the Greek life. But I sense some big changes are going to be coming for them. Damn shame.
10 years ago at 1:22 pmI’ve always thought Union was the “Mother of Fraternities.”
This does suck but honestly 27 reports of hazing within a month is ridiculous. And at least they’re not shutting everybody down.
10 years ago at 1:28 pmThere is the Union Triad, also Miami Triad, also VMI Triad. In any case, Miami is one of the important schools in fraternity history.
10 years ago at 1:23 amIn unrelated news, the SAE and Sigep chapters at Miami have never been happier.
10 years ago at 1:48 pmas a former member of greek life at miami
if someone actually got “airlifted and flatlined” that would be a huge story on its own…
and I feel like those numbers aren’t even that bad? a little under 1 of about 7,000 freshmen dudes in the hospital per day for oxford sounds about right too
kids are getting softer, parents being too involved, main frats suspended and shit so the lesser ones think theyre coming into “power” and dont know what they are doing with more pledges and think they are supposed to behave this way…
10 years ago at 3:58 pmYou have no idea what you’re talking about
10 years ago at 4:14 pm