Texas A&M students sue fraternity for hazing after experiencing alleged severe burns

[TexasTowelie]

Two students at Texas A&M University are suing a fraternity after they say they faced serious bodily injury when industrial strength cleaner was poured on them.

The students, Patrick Close and Jose Figueroa, filed a complaint in state District Court in Harris County against Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity Inc., Texas A&’s chapter of SAE, and members of the Texas A&M fraternity at the time for violation of the anti-hazing statute in Texas.

Close and Figueroa were chosen to pledge SAE after going through rush at the beginning of the spring 2021 semester, according to the lawsuit, filed last week. In March, the lawsuit alleges that they were forced to do “various kinesthetic activities” and escorted to a barn, where fraternity members poured “foreign substances” on the two freshmen, including human spit, raw eggs, paint, food condiments and an industrial strength cleaner. Close and Figueroa experienced severe burns as a result of the high alkaline cleaner being poured on them, the lawsuit states.

“As a result of the burns they endured, Close and Figueroa were transported to Houston, Texas, to undergo emergency skin graft surgery and eventually underwent a second skin graft surgery,” the suit states. “Close and Figueroa are both permanently disfigured as a result of the burns they endured at the hands of the Defendants.”

The two students are seeking at least $1 million in damages and a jury trial.

Read more: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2021/10/28/texas-am-sae-fraternity-hazing/6177727001/

[RockRaven]

1. When I was in college many years ago, SAE was said to be short for "Same Assholes Everywhere"

Apparently still true...

[Paladin]

3. I wonder what the UT Cowboys' initiation is like, these days?

Years ago, it involved the use of a small branding iron, which was displayed on the wall of the ex-students' center for many years.

[TexasTowelie]

4. One of the reasons I never joined a fraternity was my concern over hazing.

Another reason is that I didn't want to have ask for money from my parents so that the rest of the fraternity and their friends would have beer tp drink.