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Friday, March 08, 2013  A Cornell U. fraternity sends the house mascot goat off to Farm Sanctuary for a better life.

Friday, October 26, 2012 

Friday, June 29, 2012  A fraternity has been found guilty of hazing in the alcohol poisoning death of a Cornell University student from New York City.

Wednesday, June 27, 2012  A Tompkins County judge it was alcohol poisoning, not hazing, that led to the death of Cornell University student George Desdunes, 19. The three men accused of hazing are now acquitted.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012  Testimony is under way in the trial of three men charged in connection with the alcohol-related death of a Cornell University student.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011  A drug investigation at two Oswego fraternities leads to the arrest of five young men.

Tuesday, June 28, 2011  The mother of a 19-year-old Cornell University student who died during an alcohol-related fraternity hazing ritual has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the national fraternity.

Thursday, May 05, 2011  Four people have been charged as part of an investigation into a hazing death at Cornell University.

Saturday, April 23, 2011  A student who claims he was spanked and locked up in a fraternity hazing is suing Hartwick College in Oneonta over the ordeal.

Wednesday, March 02, 2011  Cornell University officials say they've temporarily suspended the fraternity where a student was found dead last week in what authorities are calling an apparent alcohol-related death.

Sunday, February 27, 2011  Tompkins County Sheriff Ken Lansing says alcohol consumption appears to have played a part in the unrelated deaths of a male student at a Cornell University fraternity house and a female student found dead in the snow near the Ithaca College campus.

Monday, January 17, 2011  A college student from New York City has pleaded not guilty to fatally stabbing a University of Rochester classmate at a fraternity party.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010  Cortland police are investigating an alleged hazing incident involving at the Delta Kappa Beta fraternity at SUNY Cortland. Now, 8 students are facing charges.

Monday, January 25, 2010  Cornell University investigating underage drinking at a South Avenue fraternity after three students were sent to a hospital for treatment Friday.