The morning of April 12, approximately 30 students in the School of Architecture entered Campbell Hall to be initiated as members of Alpha Rho Chi — a pre-professional fraternity for students of architecture. Twelve hours later, the Architecture students had indeed been initiated, but only after enduring a series of events that the Office of Student Affairs later determined to be hazing.
After opening an investigation into the conduct of national representatives who were present, Student Affairs released its findings Aug. 11, with the sanction being the non-renewal of the University’s Contracted Independent Organization agreement with Alpha Rho Chi. The findings detailed four different hazing behaviors perpetuated by representatives of the fraternity’s national headquarters.
David Hawkins-Jacinto, executive director of strategic communications for the Office of Student Affairs, told The Cavalier Daily in a written statement that it is unusual to receive reports that national representatives had been involved in a hazing incident…