{"id":3558,"date":"2025-12-16T14:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/?p=3558"},"modified":"2025-12-22T09:38:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T14:38:23","slug":"pi-kappa-alpha-september-29-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/hazing-incident\/2025\/12\/pi-kappa-alpha-september-29-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Pi Kappa Alpha (September 29, 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Incident report<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Timeline:<br><\/strong>\u2022 Date of hazing incident(s):\u00a0Fall 2025\u00a0<br>\u2022 Date reported:\u00a0September 29, 2025\u00a0<br>\u2022 Dates of investigation:\u00a0October 1, 2025\u2013October 28, 2025\u00a0<br>\u2022 Date of responsible finding:\u00a0December 8,\u00a02025\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Description:<br><\/strong>Following an investigation, in which the\u00a0members of\u00a0Pi Kappa Alpha\u00a0participated\u00a0fully and cooperatively, the University found sufficient evidence to support that\u00a0Pi Kappa Alpha\u00a0had\u00a0engaged in hazing activities during\u00a0September\u00a02025,\u00a0including the\u00a0following:\u00a0<br><br>\u2022 It is more likely than not that the new membership program\u00a0required, caused, coerced, or otherwise inducing activities that caused physical harm or threat of harm, which may have included forced calisthenics, brutal treatment, or forced physical activity\u00a0and resulted in three students being hospitalized.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<br>\u2022 Serving\/providing alcohol to new members\u00a0during\u00a0multiple\u00a0events.\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Violations:<br><\/strong>\u2022 03. Abusive Conduct<br>\u2022 04. Endangering Behavior<br>\u2022 06. Hazing<br>\u2022 10. Misuse of Alcohol<br>\u2022 18. Violation of any University Policy, Rule, or Regulation\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Did the hazing violation involve the abuse or illegal use of alcohol or drugs?<br><\/strong>\u2022 Yes<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Sanctions:<br><\/strong>\u2022 Chapter Suspension effective November 3, 2025\u2013May 31, 2031.\u00a0<br>\u2022 While under\u00a0suspension\u00a0the chapter is considered not in good standing\u00a0and is no longer recognized at the University of Rhode Island.\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Outcome(s):<br><\/strong>\u2022 As a result of these\u00a0findings,\u00a0Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity was found responsible for all charges during a conduct board hearing on\u00a0December 8, 2025.\u00a0\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incident report Timeline:\u2022 Date of hazing incident(s):\u00a0Fall 2025\u00a0\u2022 Date reported:\u00a0September 29, 2025\u00a0\u2022 Dates of investigation:\u00a0October 1, 2025\u2013October 28, 2025\u00a0\u2022 Date of responsible finding:\u00a0December 8,\u00a02025\u00a0 Description:Following an investigation, in which the\u00a0members of\u00a0Pi Kappa Alpha\u00a0participated\u00a0fully and cooperatively, the University found sufficient evidence to support that\u00a0Pi Kappa Alpha\u00a0had\u00a0engaged in hazing activities during\u00a0September\u00a02025,\u00a0including the\u00a0following:\u00a0 \u2022 It is more likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-3558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hazing-incident","tag-fall-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3559,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3558\/revisions\/3559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/student-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}