Fraternity No Longer Uses Live Fish!

June 2012

After a complainant notified us that a fraternity was using live goldfish during rush events (and some pledges were only initiated if they swallowed live fish), we sent the dean and the fraternity president a letter. The fraternity has compassionately decided no longer to use live fish in official or unofficial procedures and events. 

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