NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — Another Rutgers fraternity house has been suspended by the school while the university investigates hazing alleged to have occurred there.
As of May 19, Rutgers ordered the Kappa Sigma fraternity to cease and desist all operations, News 12 and other outlets reported.
Kappa Sigma cannot operate while Rutgers investigates. The fraternity has a house on Union Street, which has the letters out front.
There were no reported injuries in this latest hazing allegation. But in the past few years, there have been at least three students seriously injured, requiring hospitalization, during alleged hazing at Rutgers fraternities:
October 2025: Two teen Rutgers students were electrocuted last fall in the basement of the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity house, located at 106 College Avenue. Officials say the teens were electrocuted in a hazing event, which fraternity members dispute. One of the teens lost consciousness and had to be hospitalized in critical condition, but survived. Alpha Sigma Phi was shut down by Rutgers last fall and has never reopened. It is considered permanently closed on campus (see list of all closed frat houses below).
In 2022, a Rutgers student, then 19, sued Rutgers and Theta Chi fraternity after he fell down a flight of stairs and fractured his skull during a night of heavy drinking at the frat house. The student, Armand Runte, of Somers Point, said he fell down the stairs after he was pressured to consume large amounts of alcohol during pledge week. According to the lawsuit, the night he fell down the stairs was called "Big Brother Night," and the older frat members "forced, coerced and encouraged" Runte and the other younger pledges "to consume life-threatening amounts of alcohol." Rutgers Student Sues School After Skull Fracture, Claims Hazing (Warning: graphic photo of the teen in the intensive care unit).
As of May 27, the following fraternities and sororities at Rutgers are on probation:
And the following fraternities and sororities are now permanently closed at Rutgers, either closed by the school or their national organization. "Closed chapters are no longer considered registered student organizations at Rutgers University and may NO LONGER OPERATE on our campus," Rutgers said here on its website about Greek life.
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