Sigma Nu hazing warrants: Cocaine was flowing at NC State frat as late as October
University police got their first inkling that something was wrong at NC State’s Sigma Nu fraternity on the evening of Sept. 9. And even then, it was only because the fraternity brothers set off the smoke alarm. Police hadn’t yet seen the videos on fraternity leaders’ phones that would confirm their worst suspicions — including the ones from last semester, of pledges being forced to vomit into one another’s mouths and inhale dangerous amounts of nitrous oxide. They also didn’t know there was a new pledge marshal in charge, who police say expressed “his intention to intensify hazing activities beyond those previously conducted.” They hadn’t seen the video from just five nights before the alarm, of Sigma Nu pledges interacting with female sex workers who police say were hitting one another with an “unidentified object.” Those descriptions from a university police detective, based on evidence obtained from fraternity members’ phones, come from newly public search warrants. Chapter members have not responded to inquiries from The News & Observer. Their national fraternity denounced the “significant and severe violations of the Fraternity’s principles, law, policies, and membership requirements” and called for accountability for “those responsible for the heinous and grievous acts found
