"Police seek charges in apparent fraternity hazing at BU; BU says students could be expelled" by Peter Schworm | Globe Staff, April 10, 2012
Police sought criminal complaints Tuesday against 14 suspects accused of beating and binding five Boston University students and then covering them in hot sauce and honey as part of a fraternity hazing scheme.
Investigators are seeking to charge the suspects - most, if not all, of whom are BU students - with hazing, assault and battery, and failure to report hazing.
The complaints were the latest in a series of recent scandals at the school, including two high-profile accusations of sexual assault.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino called on the university to forward its findings to the city. “We’re not going to condone issues like this,’’ he said.
Early Monday morning, police responded to a noise complaint in what could have been another loud, late-night house party, on an Allston street notorious for them.
Instead, police found a circle of students shivering in the cellar, bound, in their underwear and doused in honey, hot sauce, chili sauce, and coffee grounds.
“All five were shivering and had horrified and fearful looks on their faces,’’ police officers wrote in a report.
When an officer asked the students if they were OK, one shook his head no as tears fell down his face.
When the condiments were washed off, police could see that welts covered their backs.
Students who live at the Ashford Street house are members of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity, which is not affiliated with the university.
In response to the accusations, the national fraternity suspended the BU chapter and its 30 members yesterday....
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"Fraternity closes BU chapter in hazing; Board vote comes after 14 suspects faced police charges" by Peter Schworm | Globe Staff, April 12, 2012
The Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity has closed its Boston University chapter in response to allegations that members bound and beat five students in an apparent hazing incident.
In a unanimous vote Tuesday night, the group’s board of directors shut down the 30-member chapter, which was not sanctioned by the university. The vote came shortly after police sought charges against 14 suspects for hazing and assault and battery....
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"BU paper’s ‘joke’ sparks real anger" April 03, 2012|By Mary Carmichael
Boston University’s independent student newspaper came under intense criticism Monday for an April Fools’ edition that made light of rape, just a few months after highly publicized sexual assault cases roiled the campus.
The top story: “Seven frat dwarves were arrested last night after they allegedly drugged’’ and sexually assaulted a female Boston University student, identified as the “fairest of them all.’’ It included a picture of a cocktail that Snow White had been drinking, which had been spiked with a date-rape drug.
It's not funny, but it is.
Another front-page story in The Daily Free Press special edition involved Alice in Wonderland on a bad trip after taking LSD supplied by fraternity brothers. Still another implicated Cinderella in a prostitution ring.
Students found the jokes anything but funny.
Sexual assault has become a charged topic at the university after the arrests of two BU men’s hockey players in the past several months, as well as three Peeping Tom incidents in dorms and a possible episode of sorority hazing in March that sent a woman to the hospital.
Student activists on campus have questioned whether the school’s student culture is hostile toward women....
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