2008 Woodie Awards
Delta Tau Delta hazing photos published
Kevin Litten
Issue date: 3/14/08 Section: News
Hazing photos of what appears to be Delta Tau Delta pledges were posted on the website of Terp Weekly Edition, a weekly news radio show produced by the journalism school and broadcast on WMUC-FM and via podcast hosted on the university network.
The hazing photos depict men wearing "Delt" T-shirts and drinking alcohol; wet shirtless men laying face down on a cement floor and one photo described by Terp Weekly Edition as pledges with pig's feet in their mouths.
University officials announced Thursday that Delta Tau Delta had been disbanded for years of rampant hazing. Linda Clement, the university's vice president of student affairs, said in the Terp Weekly Edition report that officials are still deciding whether to pursue criminal charges against fraternity members.
Delta Tau Delta has been ordered to vacate their house on Fraternity Row by the end of the month.
The hazing photos depict men wearing "Delt" T-shirts and drinking alcohol; wet shirtless men laying face down on a cement floor and one photo described by Terp Weekly Edition as pledges with pig's feet in their mouths.
University officials announced Thursday that Delta Tau Delta had been disbanded for years of rampant hazing. Linda Clement, the university's vice president of student affairs, said in the Terp Weekly Edition report that officials are still deciding whether to pursue criminal charges against fraternity members.
Delta Tau Delta has been ordered to vacate their house on Fraternity Row by the end of the month.
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Shawn
posted 3/14/08 @ 6:08 PM EST
I wish I was in a fraternity so other guys could force me to take off my clothes and put stuff in my mouth. Awesome brah.
Poopface
posted 3/15/08 @ 1:16 PM EST
Like this is the only frat on campus that does this kind of nonsense?
I wish I could pay for friends.
Seancer
posted 3/16/08 @ 4:00 PM EST
Yup, the cream of the crop and the best friends money can buy. They'll make fine toe-tapping Republicans someday. Who knows, maybe the C I A will hire them to work at Abu Ghrumsfeld. (Continued…)
Josh
posted 3/16/08 @ 6:37 PM EST
Cement floor? looks like tile to me and where are these pigs feet they speak of?
obamaronpaul2008_4eva
posted 3/16/08 @ 10:02 PM EST
Seancer,
"Abu Grumsfeld!!!!!!" That's so AWESOME! Get John Stewart on the phone! You took Abu Ghraib and Donald Rumsfeld, and you put them together! That is so effing GENIUS! Did you ever notice that Dick Cheney's first name is DICK, isn't that CRAZY?!?!?1111
Donkey
posted 3/17/08 @ 3:47 PM EST
That's Fratastic!
I know some cool mo fo's in that Frat!
Zack
posted 3/19/08 @ 7:01 AM EST
You are all morons, especially the Republican comment. You don't even know what it is to be in a fraternity. Stop being so fucking ignorant. You are all justifying the reasons you did not join a frat through this article rather than basing your comments on the facts of the case which is that some people had to eat pigs feet. (Continued…)
Flynn
posted 3/19/08 @ 3:07 PM EST
I graduated Maryland in 76 and was scaning the Diamondback out of nostalgia when I ran across this article. Man has campus life become so PC that the frat boy's can't have a little fun? A little hazeing never hurt anyone as long as it doesn't go too far. (Continued…)
Doug
posted 3/19/08 @ 4:02 PM EST
Some people want to join frats and others don't. Why does everyone need to disparage everyone else's decisions? Who cares if you don't want to get hazed? Did you not play sports either because you didn't want to be hazed?
If so, your missing out on alot. (Continued…)
Peter
posted 3/19/08 @ 6:54 PM EST
Flynn, given the many misspellings and egregious grammar errors on your part, I'm left to think that you attended Maryland when it was known for beer bongs and dime bags, not for being a top research university. (Continued…)
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