Ohio University expels fraternity chapter after student's death

ATHENS -- Ohio University announced today (Tuesday) that the local chapter of the Sigma Pi fraternity is now permanently "expelled" from campus, for multiple violations of OU's policies regarding hazing and alcohol use.

This news comes after the university kicked off a Student Code of Conduct investigation into the Epsilon chapter of the Sigma Pi fraternity early last November after news broke of an OU student dying at an off-campus residence that, the university is alleging, was an unofficial annex of the fraternity.

The student, Collin Wiant, 18, who allegedly was a pledge of the fraternity chapter at the time, was found unresponsive at 45 Mill St. on Nov. 12, 2018, The NEWS previously reported. OU initiated a cease-and-desist order for all organizational activities for the fraternity chapter a day later.

According to documents of the Student Code of Conduct violation hearings provided Tuesday by the university, the fraternity was found, through a preponderance of evidence standard, to have violated 10 different statutes in the Student Code of Conduct. Those include:

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