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Subscribe to RSSBoston police are investigating a possible hazing incident involving five Boston University students who were found stripped down to their underwear, duct-taped and covered head-to-toe in honey, hot sauce and other condiments.
“All five were shivering and had horrified and fearful looks on their faces,” Boston officers wrote in a report, according to the Boston Globe.
Boston police said they responded to a newly renovated home in Allston just after midnight on Monday after neighbors complained of hearing loud music.
"Mainly the loud music, but I also heard stuff like, 'Yes sir,' and 'No sir,' as if they were in the military and someone was giving them orders," said Marc Vuong, a neighbor and Boston University freshman, NBC News affiliate WHDH-TV in Boston reported on Monday.
According to a Boston police report, officers discovered five students who “were all tied together via duct tape wrist-to-wrist to form a human chain,” according to WHDH-TV. Police said they also noticed the men had “red welts and markings all over their backs,” WHDH-TV reported.
Police said they also found about a dozen other college students scattered around the two-story home; some had been hiding, while others were pretending to be sleeping, WHDH-TV reported.
A Boston University spokesperson told WHDH-TV on Tuesday that the people behind the alleged hazing were Boston University students. The house also belonged to a national fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi, but was not recognized by Boston University. Boston University withdrew its recognition of the fraternity nearly 20 years ago, according to school officials.
A spokesman for the Boston Police Department told the Boston Globe charges against nine Boston University students were likely. They also could be expelled from the school, the Globe reported.
Kenneth Elmore, Boston University’s dean of students, told WHDH-TV that two of the men involved in Monday’s alleged hazing already faced expulsion for their role in a sorority hazing incident last month.
"It's very troubling that they would have another incident, same organization, some members the same some different, but that they would be involved in this," Elmore told WHDH-TV.
The alleged hazing incident at Sigma Delta Tau, a sorority at Boston University, involved underage drinking off the school’s campus.
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this is like the emporer's new clothes. this is something that is done to be initiated into the "elite"
i'd rather be a dumb redneck than hang out with the kind of freaks that would do this crap to another
person.
I'm with you renee. And naturally, we should forgive their college loans as well.
Alpha Epsilon Pi........Stupid, stupid, stupid.........and more stupid.
These idiots are nothing but young adult bullies - and should be taken off the streets for some time. In order to spare the rest of us from their immaturity and poor judgement - they should be jailed for a period of time. It is obvious that they think this activity is funny, and were ready to try and 'cover it up.'
Truly disgusting - and illegal - behavior.....Let's make them pay.
Having been through college I did see some of this but not to this degree. I never quite understood the "need" to be in a fraternity or sorority if it meant doing stuff like this. I agree with renee! Even at 18 I would think they would have more sense than to have this desperate need for acceptance.
These are the people, that plan to someday run this country.
They are wicked mean in Boston.
Bullies is all they are. I hope they're happy now that they're no longer able to finish their studies...drop out idiots. lol
At Duke, this incident would be considered a normal part of the day. I saw so much horror happening to people by the fraternities you become numb to it. I associate it to what our military must have felt like in Vietnam. The administration never ever addressed these issues. It was comical. My roommate "rushed" and wanted me to as well. I refused. I found no need (and I was a popular student) to subject myself to abuse on a daily basis. He did. I would see him come back to the room so sick and in such a state of sadness. All he thought about was rushing. Not school. I cleaned up more puke that year than a nurse in a hospital. His fraternity had a special thing about making people eat and drink disgusting concoctions. Another fraternity on campus (a problem fraternitiy in many stories I've heard) was Theta Chi. I was there when David Lauren (Ralph's son) was a student and rushing. They were notorious about making pledges submit their parent's tax records to see if they met the requirement for ultra high incomes. As I recall, the school paper ran a story on it. I'll have to dig it up.
Every single person involved in this should be arrested and go to jail. I thought the schools were clamping down on hazing but apparently in Boston, it's still OK. This is absolutely horrible - to think these poor kids were subjected to this humiliation by a bunch of bullies who thought it was cute to hurt others in the name of hazing. This is not funny and should not be a part of any college life. These bullies need to be kicked out of school and serve jail time. A message needs to be sent to all colleges that this will not be tolerated. How many times does it take to make it sink in? Someone at this college did not do his or her job or this would not have happened. How much of this is still going on that is not reported? What kind of kids do this?" Rotten bullies that's what kind and they need to be punished and not just a slap on the hand.
Why would anyone voluntarily submit themselves to treatment like this? I won't go so far as to blame the recruits, but as long as they continue to take this treatment it won't be stopped. Actually, I will go so far... they can walk away any time, so in a way it is also their fault. If everyone in a pledge class would stand up and say 'if we are treated as less than human we are gone' it would have to stop or the organizations would eventually shut down due to lack of new members.
There are plenty of popular kids who don't submit themselves to this kind of humiliation and never would.