As a result of the incident, a campus committee made recommendations for changes in the Greek system, including an end to freshman pledging and an end to preferential housing arrangements for Greek affiliated students. The action followed the reported alcohol poisoning of a pledge who was made to drink a shot of vodka every time he missed a trivia question asked by active members. The student was hospitalized after he was found staggering down the street close to the fraternity house. The Dallas freshman checked into the West Texas Clinic with blood in his urine, where a physician determined he had bruised his only kidney. He was found dead the next morning, and an autopsy showed his blood alcohol level to be more than four times the legal level of intoxication.
Some traditions are better broken.
Now is the time. Hazing kills, demoralizes and hurts America's future leaders. Hazing is an individual problem that becomes a group problem. There are members in every chapter who oppose hazing. But they are often intimidated into silence by the hazers.