Anyone convicted of hazing a college student in Georgia could serve up to five years in prison under legislation introduced this week by more than a dozen state senators. Senate...
January 27, 2022
The bill passed unanimously, and Courtney White rose from her bench in the upstairs Senate gallery to hug her uncle, Eric Oakes. Then the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Jennifer Boysko, D-Fairfax,...
January 26, 2022
Hector Martinez and Jolayne Houtz still grieve for their son. Sam Martinez died in November 2019 of acute alcohol poisoning while pledging a fraternity at Washington State University, where he...
January 14, 2022
It’s a day that Jolayne Houtz remembers vividly. She was sitting at her desk at work and heard ragged breathing outside her door. It was her husband, Hector Martinez, telling...
December 7, 2021
A metro Atlanta family wants stiffer penalties for hazing after it killed their son. Roswell native Max Gruver died of alcohol poisoning at a frat house at Louisiana State University...
November 29, 2021
Fraternity hazing was one of the topics on 60 Minutes, Sunday, where Anderson Cooper spoke with Wynn Smiley, CEO of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity organization, about the death of...