![]() ![]() ![]() Now, with its five-year expulsion over, Sigma Alpha Epsilon has returned to active chapter status at Cornell and is recruiting this semester. The New York Alpha Organization of Sigma Alpha Epsilon has also been a sponsor of educational programs for fraternities and sororities, including an anti-hazing event in 2019. “The councils (IFC, Panhellenic, and MGFC), the Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life, our dedicated alumni, and student leaders have done extensive work over the last decade to strengthen and increase hazing prevention efforts for the sorority and fraternity community since the tragic loss of George,” said Kara Miller McCarty and Lee May, representatives from Cornell’s Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life. New guidelines as of fall 2021 require full-time live-in advisors in all fraternity and sorority chapter houses and ban hard alcohol in such houses. Additionally, annual public scorecards now display hazing violations of Greek organizations at Cornell. In 2018, prompted by Desdunes’ death and other hazing-related issues, University President Martha Pollack also announced new anti-hazing policies for Greek life, including three-year suspensions for chapters involved in coerced alcohol or drug consumption, violence and sexual misconduct, as well as mandatory alcohol, drug and sexual misconduct training for all Greek organizations. Three freshmen pledges were later charged with misdemeanor hazing, and a fourth was charged with hazing and tampering with evidence.Īfter Desdunes’ death, the University revoked its recognition of Sigma Alpha Epsilon for at least five years, all brothers were forced to vacate the chapter house and the fraternity was fined $12,000 in state hazing penalties. Desdunes was found unresponsive the next morning by cleaning staff. Now, eleven years later, Desdunes’ fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon is reopening its doors.Īn investigation into Desdunes’ death found that the sophomore had been involved in a “reverse kidnapping” hazing ritual in which pledges tied up brothers of the fraternity with zip-ties and duct tape and gave them copious amounts of hard liquor until they vomited repeatedly.Īfter Desdunes passed out from alcohol consumption, brothers of the fraternity brought him back to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon house and left him on a couch in the library. 25 marks the 11th anniversary of the tragic death of our client, George Desdunes, in a 2011 fraternity hazing incident that rocked Cornell’s campus and sparked national outrage. ![]()
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