After weeks of hazing, grueling working conditions and general abuse, a new leader in the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity pledge class has emerged to bring an end to the struggle against the older fraternity members.
The pledge, first-year College student Mo Sussman, was originally believed to have dropped out of pledging after he disappeared for several days earlier in March, but he has returned to help his fellow pledges.
“Let my people go,” Sussman said upon his return.
The older PIKA brothers initially scoffed at Sussman’s demands, but became nervous when he threw his snapback to the ground and it morphed into a serpent. Sussman added that he had been in communication with Dean of Students Allen Groves, who made a covenant with Sussman to help end the hazing against PIKA pledges once and for all.
“Who is this Dean Groves, and why should I listen to what he has to say?” asked PIKA president Mischa Hynes, a third-year College student. “I know not this Dean Groves, neither will I stop hazing my pledges.”
But just days later, PIKA leadership was informed that a formal complaint had been filed against the fraternity and that an investigation would begin. Soon after that, the Office of the Dean of Students demanded PIKA initiate all new members immediately. PIKA was also banned from hosting social events in its house.
“I am that I am,” Groves said when asked for comment on the sanctions.
Despite Grove’s actions, PIKA refused to stop hazing pledges, even worsening the experience for the new members.
“Your dean does not intimidate me,” Hynes said to Sussman at the time.
Sussman remained calm and started to garner more support from the other new members. Sussman asked Hynes again to end the hazing, suggesting things would only get worse. In days following, Groves suspended PIKA’s Fraternal Organization Agreement, ending all fraternity activities while investigation proceeded. PIKA nationals were also informed of the investigation and threatened to limit the fraternity’s funding for the future if it did not comply.
“I am your Dean of Students, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Pi Kappa Alpha brotherhood,” Groves said to the pledges. “And I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments. And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a Dean: and ye shall know that I am the Dean for your people, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.”
At this point, Sussman gave one final opportunity for Hynes to end the hazing.
“Thus saith Dean Groves, at about midnight I will go out into the midst of your fraternity, and Pi Kappa Alpha shall lose its charter,” he said. “And there shall be a great cry throughout all of Pi Kappa Alpha, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more.”
Hynes refused to give into Sussman’s and Grove’s demand, and this past weekend, PIKA lost its charter. The pledges left the fraternity, but are expected to have trouble navigating the wilderness that is fall dirty rush.
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