Please return this form to Bonnie Hill, Fraternal Law, 225 West Court Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. The full day session will begin at 9:00 on Friday and the half-day session on Saturday ends at Noon. Who should attend? Fraternity officers, council...

Daniel McCarthy, Manley Burke The Sigma Alpha Mu Chapter at the University of Delaware was recently fined $50,000 by a judge for hazing.  The Chapter was charged with hazing, a misdemeanor, following the 2008 death of Brett Griffin from alcohol...

Tim Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com The effort to convince the United States Congress to adopt the Stephanie Tubbs Jones Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act (CHIA) continues with strong support from the Fraternity and Sorority Political Action Committee (FSPAC).  That bill,...

Daniel McCarthy, Manley Burke Kicked over garbage cans.  Public urination.  Stolen street signs.  Those are just three of the many problems residents in State College, Pennsylvania complained about in a recent edition of the National Public Radio show “This American...

Tim Burke, Manley Burke, tburke@manleyburke.com While the efforts of national fraternities and sororities to stamp out hazing continue unabated, there are still incidences of serious hazing combined with the abuse of alcohol occurring across the country. At the University of...

Daniel McCarthy, Manley Burke Joseph Dado, an 18-year-old freshman at Penn State, was found dead on September 21, 2009 on campus.  He was missing for almost 40 hours before he was found at the bottom of a stairwell.  He died...

Daniel McCarthy, Manley Burke Alpha Phi Alpha, the fraternity of Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, W.E.B. Dubois and numerous other prominent African-Americans, took the dramatic step of halting all new membership intakes for all of its undergraduate chapters effective...