“(Schools) often want to hide behind it - it’s the great boogeyman in higher ed. Sigma Phi Epsilon- University of Tampa(FL) Sigma Pi- Indiana University(re-establishment). Jacob Rooksby told the Huffington Post last year. “FERPA is widely misunderstood in higher education,” Duquesne University Law Prof. Around 11,000 SigEp undergraduates are on nearly 200 college campuses each year. Since then, SigEp has grown to become one of the largest fraternities in the country. But, of course, there’s a provision in FERPA that allows for those records to be released if in compliance “with a judicial order or lawfully issued subpoena,” and in fact a New York state Supreme Court justice ruled four years ago that hazing allegations are not protected by FERPA. Sigma Phi Epsilon (SigEp) was founded on November 1, 1901, at Richmond College, now the University of Richmond, in Richmond, Va. Oftentimes they hide behind FERPA - the federal student privacy law - which prohibits a college from making a student’s records public. How do colleges get away with keeping so tight-lipped about hazing incidents, not to mention athletic scandals and sexual assault allegations? But the actual crime of hazing - and potentially dozens of other crimes under the umbrella of hazing - are never criminally pursued. Notice a pattern here? A hazing incident is alleged, an internal investigation is conducted, and maybe a fraternity is punished by the college. Sigma Phi Epsilon ( ), commonly known as SigEp, is a social college fraternity for male college students in the United States. Epsilon Phi: 2010: California State University, Sonoma: Active Epsilon Chi: 2010: Capital University: Active Epsilon Psi: 2011. Groups are listed generally in order according of the date they chartered into Alpha Sigma Phi. According to a local news report: “The school has not released any more details about what occurred.” This is a list of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity chapters and provisional chapters. Or yet another one year later at Quinnipiac, where Sigma Phi Epsilon was served a cease-and-desist order over a hazing allegation. According to the New Haven Register: “University officials would not comment further.” In 2014, Tau Kappa Epsilon was shut down, one member expelled and two others suspended amid hazing allegations.
Or an incident at Quinnipiac University, in Connecticut, also where hazing is illegal. The university suspended Sigma Alpha Epsilon after receiving “credible information alleging that the chapter is engaged in hazing activity.” According to the Chicago Tribune, “No other details about the allegation were available.” Take a recent hazing case at Loyola University in Chicago - a state where hazing is illegal. Witnesses - including coaches, faculty and other students - can be held criminally liable for failing to report incidents.Īnd yet, thanks to a culture of impunity on campus and a “boys will be boys” mentality, arrests are rare. And the fact that a student may have “consented” to the ritual is not a defense. 26 HAMDEN Quinnipiac has suspended the university’s chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon for two years after investigating actions, according to the institution.
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