Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity issued cease and desist from Southern University amid hazing investigation
BATON ROUGE — The Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity has been told to stop activities on Southern University's campus after hazing allegations against the group arose, school officials told WBRZ on Friday. It's the second to face hazing allegations this year; Omega Psi Phi was removed from campus last semester.
"This is a very serious precaution," Chancellor John Pierre told WBRZ in an interview after a Board of Supervisors meeting. "We take these kinds of things very seriously. Allegations of hazing will not be tolerated at Southern University."
Pierre said the school issued the fraternity a cease-and-desist letter as its student affairs office conducts an investigation.
"We're doing this because we want to make sure that our students are safe," Pierre said.
The WBRZ Investigate Unit later received a copy of the letter. Under the terms laid out, the fraternity members cannot meet as an organization, cannot wear fraternity insignia, cannot use campus space and cannot participate in events on- or off-campus. It said it expects full cooperation from chapter members.
"Any actions that are taken to intentionally impede the investigation will jeopardize the status of the chapter," according to the school's notice, which is dated Wednesday. Pierre said the notice had also been sent to the fraternity's national leaders.
The full cease-and-desist order can be read below:
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If formally removed from Southern's campus, Alpha Phi Alpha would join Omega Psi Phi as frats suspended for hazing allegations this year. Omega Psi Phi was expelled from Southern in July after an investigation into the February hazing death of Caleb Wilson.