Joshua Dower, internal medicine and pediatrics specialist at WVU Medicine, said Nolan Burch should not be dead.
The General Council of the Phi Delta Theta Fraternity has voted to suspend its WVU chapter due to risk management violations.
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The father of a WVU student who suffered brain injuries after falling down the WVU Sigma Alpha Epsilon house in November is suing the fraternity and others.
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Gov. Jim Justice vetoed the anti-hazing bill on Wednesday after it passed unanimously in the Senate and was approved by three-fourths of the House of Delegates.
WVU President E. Gordon Gee discussed next year’s tuition, campus carry and the Spruce Street snow day riot among other issues in an interview with the DA staff on Thursday.
The DA obtained WVU Police Department body camera footage from the Feb. 1 Spruce Street gathering, which was dispersed with pepper balls, smoke grenades and a long-range acoustic device.
Eleven individuals have been served arrest warrants over their involvement in the Spruce Street riots on Feb. 1.
The WVU chapter of the NAACP issued a statement on Wednesday to the University disapproving the way WVU handled its investigation into the hanging baby doll, which had a blackened face, found at the Alpha Phi sorority house.
Eleven individuals have been served arrest warrants over their involvement in the Spruce Street riots from Feb. 1.
Update: Headline and article changed to include WVU news release information on Sunday night. Additional information from the international sorority added in at 3:30 p.m. on Monday. Information from Morgantown public information officer added at 11 a.m. on Tuesday.
TJ and Kim Burch remember their son as a happy and active child.
Despite multiple requests, the University did not provide information by publication time about what caused WVU’s chapter of Alpha Phi to be suspended and put under investigation.
An anti-hazing bill aimed at protecting students involved in organizations outside of University control unanimously passed the Senate last week.
WVU’s chapter of Alpha Phi has been placed on interim suspension and is currently under investigation for an unspecified reason.
The way sexual assault and harassment cases are handled on campus could undergo significant changes if the rules proposed by the Trump Administration were to take effect.
An anti-hazing bill aimed at protecting students involved in organizations outside of University control advanced last week.
I’m sorry for driving here on sorority Bid Day. Wait, no I’m not. This is a road, made for cars, one of which I am currently in.
Excited sisters gathered in the Mountainlair on Sunday to find out which sorority they had been invited to join.
More than two months after a fall on fraternity steps, WVU student David Rusko remains in an intensive care unit.
During this time of the semester, you will start to see a lot of advertisements, social media posts and people out promoting their specific fraternities on campus. It is normal to think to yourself, “What is the deal with fraternities and why are these guys so passionate about this?” Well, h…
Three students agreed to a permanent separation from WVU after an investigation into a student's fall at a fraternity house, according to a University news release.
Administrators of the estate of Nolan Burch, the WVU student who died during a fraternity-related pledge event in 2014, agreed to settle its wrongful death case for $3 million, according to court documents.
When the 2019 West Virginia Legislative Session begins Wednesday, WVU will be lobbying for legislation relating to the higher education budget, anti-hazing laws and campus carry.
WVU students and faculty were kept busy all of 2018.
David Rusko’s family spent Christmas with him at Ruby Memorial Hospital.
After the tragic and untimely death of a childhood friend, former WVU SGA Representative Roger Brent Scott is committed to advocating for pedestrian safety to ensure something similar doesn’t happen again.
A movement as significant as what five fraternities started this semester needed a leader strong enough to keep the ship sailing straight, even when the pressure was on.
Greek life has always been one of the biggest organizations that a student can join when coming to college.
The state paid $250,000 to settle a lawsuit between WVU and the family of a student who died at a fraternity house in 2014, according to a report from the Charleston Gazette-Mail.
After first posting our interest in publishing editorials from the Greek life community months ago, the Daily Athenaeum is excited to finally see one from a dissociated fraternity.
We write in response to the front page story, “Documents Detail Reported Violations by Greeks,” in the November 5 DA. The article, which is punctuated throughout with factual errors and misrepresentations, illustrates all too well why Phi Sigma Kappa and four other fraternities have elected …
A WVU student was hospitalized after falling down the steps of the WVU Sigma Alpha Epsilon house on Saturday, according to University spokeswoman April Kaull.
A 2012 article in The New York Times written by Todd and Victoria Buchholz said that young American adults are part of a “go-nowhere generation.” What they mean by this is that young Americans are stagnant and unmotivated.
When WVU placed a moratorium on Greek life last spring over behavioral concerns, the University established a program, called Reaching the Summit, to recommend changes for Greek organizations on campus.
The WVU Panhellenic Association (PHA) sent a letter to its sororities earlier this week saying a recruitment program similar to the new one rolled out for fraternities would not work.
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Emails between the Morgantown fire chief and police chief show an interest by city officials to take more control over fraternity events.
The Independent Interfraternity Council (IIFC) held an informal recruiting session Wednesday evening in a response to WVU’s announcement to hold a secondary recruitment session for WVU-affiliated fraternities.
WVU's Interfraternity Council (IFC) held the first event of its pilot program rush period just two days after the council announced it would begin accepting first semester freshmen again.
The WVU Interfraternity Council (IFC) announced Monday afternoon it would be walking back its deferred recruitment policy and implementing a pilot program allowing first semester freshmen to rush.
A functioning Independent Interfraternity Council (IIFC) is now operating in Morgantown after a two-month standoff with the University, and leaders of the new council say it’s here to stay.
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