Upstate Frat Boy Suing School Over Frat Hazing, Transfers To Hofstra
NY Post – An “Animal House” fraternity at an upstate hazing hotbed treated a pledge so badly “it may have ruined his life,” leading him to quit the school even though he had a substantial scholarship, according to a new lawsuit and the man’s lawyer. During Michael Warren’s initiation at the Alpha Delta Omega frat at Hartwick College in Oneonta last year he was paddled so hard he needed medical treatment – after he spent an entire night locked in a bathroom with other pledges being subjected to strobe lights and blasting music, lawyer Gerald Gross said. And worse, Warren, the only African-American to pledge at Alpha Delta Omega, was “racially harassed” — forced to dress up in a pimp costume, according to the suit. “The place is run like Animal House,” Gross said. “He was paddled very, very aggressively and together with other pledges he was locked in the bathroom all night.” After coming forward with the tale of his mistreatment, Warren was made to feel outcast at the tiny liberal arts college. It’s affected him very much emotionally,” Gross said. “He’s so frankly traumatized, he won’t come back. It may have ruined his life.” The suit seeking unspecified damages was filed last week in Brooklyn Supreme Court against Hartwick, Alpha Delta Omega and seven frat brothers. Hartwick College, founded in 1797 as the first Lutheran seminary in the United States, has had a long and inglorious history of fraternity trouble. In 2006, three members of another fraternity at Hartwick were arrested for forcing a pledge to do sit-ups and push-ups in broken glass and urine-soaked garbage. In that same year two pledges at another frat were treated for alcohol poisoning and rookie members of the lacrosse team claimed that they were forced to strip and drink a keg of beer at an initiation ritual. And, in 1997, a student got so drunk at a frat party, he wandered off alone and drowned in a river.Warren has since transferred to Hofstra University on Long Island, but without the scholarship money he was receiving at Hartwick.
I hate every side of these stupid ass frat catastrophes. Like hey bro if you didn’t want to have a bunch of dudes treat you like shit, you probably shouldn’t join a frat. Anyone who gets shocked by hazing is a fucking dick. What did you think they were gonna give you a rub and tug as your initiation? No, they are gonna piss on you and probably do weird stuff to your butthole because thats how frat boys get down. Fucking weird shit, I know. I’m not gonna say its right, I’m just saying anyone with half a brain knows thats what frat initiation is gonna be like
Then on the other side of the coin we have the insecure asshole frat brothers who legit take pleasure in torturing young boys. Hey Hartwick College, you guys fucking suck at hazing. If people aren’t busy drowning in rivers their busy ratting you out for being racists torturers. Maybe take the hint that all your frat pledges either die or sue you. Might be time to switch up your approach.
I dunno. I never had any of that experience. Primarily because I didn’t need a “brotherhood” to have fun at college so I didn’t join a frat. I couldn’t join a frat, actually. And I’m sure there are some frats where you don’t have to lose your anal virginity to join and you probably have dope parties and get tons of pussy, and thats all well and good. I’m not gonna knock that, I’m actually jealous of that. But spare me the dog and pony show about “Brotherhood” and how the initiation is part of how you earn it. You know what a “brotherhood” is? Its a fucking sausage party. You’re not gonna shoot mustard and ketchup up my ass so I can hang out with a bunch of dudes more often.
So while I’m sure some wild frat parties shit on my relatively normal college experience, I’m not losing sleep over it. Bottom line is, I did just fine drinking what I wanted to drink, when I wanted to drink, without ever being anyone’s bitch. And I get to go the rest of my life saying I’ve never been spanked by another man and I never had to do anything with other dude’s urine. Pretty pumped about that.
PS – “Ruined your life?” Bro they flashed lights in your face, played music loud, and made you dress up in a costume.
word. 90% of frat bros join cuz they dont have friends
Most frats suck. Mine didn’t. USA! USA! USA!
Mortal Lock: This was the band frat.
well said, KFC. i said this a couple weeks ago, but i’ll reiterate it for those who missed it. i went to umass and the frats there are PATHETIC. from watching movies growing up, i was led to believe that frats only accepted the “cool kids”, and it was the opposite at my school….mostly short, chubby jewish kids in my experience. anyway, like KFC said, some real gay stuff has to go down to get involved with crushing ass later on down the line. definitely can’t hate on trying to bang out chicks, but it wasn’t even like the quality chicks went for frat bros, mostly sorostitutes and maybe the occasional hot freshman chick in her first week who doesn’t know any better yet, if they were lucky. anyway, long story a little less long, i had a roommate who was a frat bro who was in his 5th or 6th year and stopped living in the frat house years ago. didn’t know him too well, we just had a mutual friend and we both had roommate options bail out last minute. he was an ok kid, but one day he mentions that he had the biggest dick in his frat, and i’m like, “dude, why the fuck do you know that?” he basically tells me that they all measured their dicks together and his 6-inch dick (like i said, a lotta jews) was the monster of the group, which is sad considering there’s like 40 dudes….but whatever, i’ve never been one to worry about the next guys dick size. anyway, i don’t care how many girls you pull, it’s gonna take a lot to undo all that gay.
sorry for partying
Words…..too many words……
nailed it zoombinis
i was in a frat, good times, never got paddled or had to pushups in broken glass (id get rid of the kid who actually agreed to do that) that being said, there are plenty of good guys in frats, and clearly some dbags.
frats are gay
Fact: People join frats because they wouldn’t know how to make friends and have a good time otherwise (although I’m not sure how being involved with half the shit a frat does can be defined as a “good time”).
from the guy that didnt get in….
bahahaha oh hartwick. i miss oneonta
Manzo posting under KFC’s name? This had all the potential to be hilarious but not so much.
ah the token black guy…i guess having the biggest dick in the frat wasn’t good enough for him
Went to Hartwick myself. I also am a brother of a fraternity there not involved in these lawsuits. I can tell you that most fraternities have decent guys, with tough but clean processes. That being said, it’s possible for any fraternity to go too far. I’m sorry this kid had a bad experience with ADO but don’t group us all into the mix. I could throw a helluva party before college and I still can years later.
Frats in the North suck. Fraternities in the South do not. I don’t know what a frat is but I wouldn’t want to be in it, thank God I’m in a fraternity instead. We don’t do gay shit either. And sorry but being locked in a bathroom with music blaring is standard procedure, that should be expected.
Hartwick is a weak excuse for an educational institution, and ADO and all its “brothers” are really just a bunch of trans-gendered sphincter ferries.
billskywalker, i was wondering about that North vs South frat thing. maybe you guys have some shit to party over cuz there’s actually real football down there, hahaha. but what was up with the kid from U of south carolina that was singing that “life of a fratter” song the other week? that kid was clearly a fuckin homo….looked like a umass frat bro…. not trying to hate, just legitimately curious.
Never seen the frats down south, but since they started down there and since you guys have sick College Football to tailgate to, probally not to bad.
Frats up at the north, especially the State ones (Umass for my case) are just filled with all the whiny kids in high school that wanted to be popular but couldn’t. And ditto with the sororities, busted chicks the lot of em.
Reason #345,058 why frats are fucking gay. Bunch of bros sitting around another bunch of bros just spanking each other? Seriously? Who the fuck decided this was cool and acceptable and not fucking lame and completely homo-erotic. No bros are slapping my ass unless they want me to knock their fuckin’ teeth down their throat. I don’t care how many friends and how much pussy it’ll get me. I can wrangle up some sluts all on my own. Don’t need Broseph McDurson and his Brocean army to help.
I go to Monmouth in Jersey and the sorority girls here are worth joining a fraternity for… But its harder to get away with hazing at small schools. Most frats here dont really do anything crazy cuz someone was killed way back. ZBT buried somebody up to their neck on the beach and the tide got him. Needless to say, the pledge process here for most frats is kinda bitchy now
Al and Jesse be marchin
Quick question, shouldn’t Frats just have a week or two of parties, then decide who they want to hang out/let it? I have some good friends, I never had to let them beat my bare ass to hang out.
wouldnt of thought the stoolies were all a bunch of geeds
ADO! ADO! ADO! ADO! I LOVE ALPHA DELTA OMEGA!
RUINED HIS LIFE?!?!?!? Michael Warren, your a pathetic little baby and I don’t even know you! And Gerald Gross, you weren’t in the room with your client. You don’t know what your talking about. Your client is weak. Ive been in the same room Warren was in. I HAD BLAST!!!! IM A BARBY GIRL IN A BARBY WORLD! THANK YOU SIR MAY I HAVE ANOTHER. The fact that this incident is going to ruin his life only confirms that he is a weak person. SACK UP! You want something to complain about?! Join the fucking marines you panzy bitch!
Sincerely Parker
frats are gay.. ADO sounds like a over 60 bowling league
I go to suny oneonta right down the street from this over priced piece of shit. Their parties suck and the people are rich frat lax fags. Every upstate ny state school thinks theyre a joke.
28ontheway, you sound a little animosity buddy. Did someone get kicked out of a Hartwick party for being a downstate douche? I would also like to ask how you have come up with your results…have you researched the entire population of students and found the ratio of lax players to how many students are in fraternities? There are only about 30 to 40 lax players and many more fraternity members. Also, have you been to EVERY upstate college and taken polls to find this out? Get your facts right cum-dumpster, your probably one of the kids who comes down drinks all the free beer you can, pukes at the party and gets thrown out.
@ frog on ledge – Bro you are fucking gay. Straight up, cock guzzling, sperm spraying, anal erotic fucking gay. Frankly, your excessive frat enthusiasm is scary. Bros probably 25 and still in college. Also: This dude is a total bitch for suing a school for his own poor choices but you sir are a fucking flaming frat fag.
no animosity at all assclown. 4 years at oneonta college and ive wandered into plenty of oneonta parties as well as hartwick parties and it’s a fucking joke of a comparison. get kicked out? you’re implying that i would even apply to that over-priced piece of shit. what’s that school running these days $45,000 a year? for what? to get paddled in the ass by clowns? Get the fuck out here with your lacrosse players because the entire fucking team feels the need to wear the same dumb looking jackets out to the bars every weekend thinking it looks cool. Drink all the free beer? What free beer? the hosts of the parties buy 1 keg for 50 people and charge 5 a head. it’s tapped in 5 mins. the oneonta frats are the same way. most northern school frats suck. get your head on straight and stop taking so much pride in being a hartwick student thundercunt.
Oh so you just wonder into parties, thats classy. I wasnt implying you got kicked out of the school, i meant the parties. your right its around 45k but hartwick gives tremendous scholarships, like the little bitch de-pledge had. my lacrosse players? sorry bud i only knew a few and your really going to judge someone on what they wear to the bar on weekends? really? Maybe i dont know how SUCO parties were because well yea I dont walk into dark run down houses, but i can assure as going to hartwick for four years, the fraternities never charge a cover cost and i can assure you the Alpha Delta Omega Fraternity has NEVER EVER charged money at the door! go back to tongue punching your boyfriends fart box, trailer trash.
Check your facts moron. I got charged everytime and I never wandered into random parties I went with people who knew some hartwick kids. The school is a waste of money with shit frats. Accept it and move on.
@Tha_Dro_Man, fraternity life down here is a whole different story. I’m from NY and would never live anywhere else after school, but they just know how to throw down in the South. I go to a really good school academically in the SEC (you can probably guess which that is), and nothing is more than game day. Even if Tim Tebow would usually rape us in football, nothing more fun than tailgating with your brothers and a bunch of sorostitutes. It sounds like at Hartwick the fraternities are actual sausage fests. Also, it helps that there’s more of a tradition down here. Although that doesn’t go for all northern schools. I know Union’s had greek life since the mid 1800′s.
Oh and that kid fro South Carolina actually looked like he caught the gay
28ontheway….MUST HAVE SUCKED TO BE YOU
So basically I registered to leave a comment for 28ontheway because youve really pissed me off.
I graduated from Hartwick last may and was involved in Greek Life. Catch n release is right, we didn’t charge, unless some tool came to the door we didnt want to let in. Then yes, we would say 5 dollar cover, to hope you would say “oh no way am I paying 5 dollars for maybe one beer at the keg” like any normal person would. But apparently you were one of the dumb ones that wanted so desperately to be at our party you paid 5 dollars. We didn’t have the heart to deny you, we felt bad that you would pay 5 dollars, sad life. We are nice people so we let you in. Maybe some girl broke your heart there and thats why you are so bitter…hope it wasnt me whoops. If Oneonta parties were so great i don’t know why you bothered walking over to ours anyway. Get a life.
Wow good to see you hartwick alum are so god Damn sensitive with people taking well deserved shots at your school. Anyone who lived in oneonta knows that hartwick was like the mets and suco was the yanks. Always second in the town. Fucktards
Current member of Hartwick Greeklife. we dont get caught because we’re awesome. plus we dont paddle kids because thats for gays. and we pull quality trim from both schools and try our best to stay away from soroity sluts, quality lies in the unafiliated. So if you care about a girl in the oneonta area I probably stuffed her at one of my parties walked downstairs went to a bar and found another because thats what we do. but the real point im trying to make is OHfest which is usually a shitshow with all students from both schools is this upcoming saturday and with al this press i feel it should be blown up as much as possible, because who doesnt like a good party?. even though the headliner is that spanish motherfucker pitbill which kind of sucks.
28ontheway…Your the one who has their panties in a bunch, we simply state the facts and know how it works, obviously you do not….fucktards? really what are we in second grade?
Bottom line: Frats are gay, lax players are pussies, Hartwick can’t party.
Call me crazy but I thought doing a shitload of drugs and drinking endless amounts of mothers milk while trying to solve the mystery of the house thief after successfully navigating the Nile and fighting a big bad goat with an olive up my ass covered in piss shit and puke was fun…the President seemed to agree….he moved in to our house. TAB
now he has NO friends
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Went to Hartwick and while I wasn’t part of any of the fraternities I knew a bunch of the TKE guys and they were alright. This joker from SUCO has the same inferiority complex of everybody else at his school. He’s seen the lax guys out at the bars and that’s all we are? Please. Everybody knows most of the people at Hartwick get huge scholarships so we can afford that school. He’s just one embitter ass. That being said ADO is a joke and stupid for this crap. They’ll probably go the way of ACR after this.
Once in the army or something like that…we had a conductor who was fucking fat…and obscene.
Fraternitys were started in the deep south mostly….probably wouldn’t want to be black and join. I was in a frat in Texas, no gay shit went down. Hazing did for sure, but it wasn’t over the top like pissing on trash and broken glass and making some excersise in it. And not many Jewish kids join frats unless its the Jewish fraternity. I hear from a whole lot of people that the northern frats take it way over the top on hazing. But seriiously, you knew what was going to go down when you joined and if you didn’t that sucks. It was the greatest time I’ll never want to do again.