Freshman Force-Fed Cat Food Shows Frats Still Hazing

Freshman Force-Fed Cat Food Shows Frats Still Hazing
A students walks to class on the campus of Arizona State University Tuesday, July 10, 2007 in Tempe, Ariz. A new Arizona law requires public universities to deny cheaper in-state tuition and other state-funded financial aid to illegal immigrants. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
A students walks to class on the campus of Arizona State University Tuesday, July 10, 2007 in Tempe, Ariz. A new Arizona law requires public universities to deny cheaper in-state tuition and other state-funded financial aid to illegal immigrants. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

In 2011, a fraternity-sponsored team of experts alerted Arizona State University to “widespread” hazing and “high-risk” drinking at its Greek houses. The warning didn’t save Jack Culolias.

The 19-year-old freshman disappeared in November 2012 after a fraternity party. Culolias had told friends that Sigma Alpha Epsilon members forced him to shave his head and eat cat food as part of his initiation and that he expected to be tied to a flagpole and locked in a garage during “Hell Week.” Sixteen days later, searchers found him drowned accidentally in a river, with his blood alcohol three times the legal limit.

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