Police were called to a frat house in Boston just after midnight on Monday to find five young men in the basement bound with duct tape wearing nothing but their underwear and coated with flour, coffee grinds, fish sauce, chili sauce, honey, hot sauce, mustard, and empty sardine cans. According to police, the young men were shivering and crying, some of them had parts of their heads shaved, and they all had red welts on their backs. Oh, just another Easter Sunday in Boston!
The fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi, is near Boston University but is not sanctioned by the school. Nevertheless, Boston University says any students who are found to be responsible could face suspension or expulsion. None of the students found bound in the basement wanted medical attention, but a police source tells a local Fox affiliate, "All five were shivering and had horrified and fearful looks on their faces."
Local police are seeking criminal charges against 14 people, and the AP reports that police are "asking a district court to approve charges of hazing, failure to report hazing and assault and battery." The incident comes on the heels of a damning Rolling Stone article about the fraternity system at Dartmouth, written by a former fratboy who says his fraternity asked pledges to: "swim in a kiddie pool of vomit, urine, fecal matter, semen and rotten food products; eat omelets made of vomit; chug cups of vinegar, which in one case caused a pledge to vomit blood; drink beer poured down fellow pledges' ass cracks... among other abuses." What, no branding? Typical wimpy Dartmouth.
