A college student is suing his fraternity for punching, kicking, and slapping him during the pledge process, then ostracizing him for revealing his injuries outside the frat.

In 1776, the Phi Beta Kappa society was founded at the College of William and Mary for men in the "pursuit of liberal education and intellectual fellowship." Over the course of the next two centuries, Greek letter societies proliferated across the U.S. and morphed into the all-male butt-chugging clubs we know as fraternities today. This year in particular was big for frats, in that they were clearly identified as the primary arena for rape to take place on campus.

The three friends of "Jackie" described in Rolling Stone's explosive UVa fraternity gang rape expose put their real names on the record today in an interview detailing key points the magazine got wrong.

Andy, Cindy and Randall—the pseudonyms of three students featured prominently in last month's Rolling Stone article about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia—tell the Washington Post they have doubts about the account given by the victim, Jackie.

The University of Virginia, in response to a recent Rolling Stone article that exposes an alleged 2012 gang rape at the Phi Kapp Psi chapter on its campus, announced over the weekend that it was shutting down all of its fraternities immediately. The only problem with that announcement is that the university also said it plans to let the fraternities reopen January 9. The right time to bring back the fraternities is never.

In the wake of a shocking Rolling Stone story documenting the University of Virginia's "institutional indifference" to rape and sexual assault, UVA President Teresa Sullivan issued a statement on Saturday declaring all of the school's fraternities immediately suspended until January 9.

Say what you will about fraternities (there is a lot you could say), but never say they don't teach valuable emergency preparedness skills, like pissing on things.

A dead fraternity pledge shared an eerily prescient message on social media Wednesday, tweeting, "It's about to be a very eventful night to say the least," just hours before he was found unconscious on the floor of a West Virginia University frat house.

A University of Southern Mississippi student is facing criminal charges after a poorly-conceived fraternity prank killed a female flamingo and her mate.

University of Texas student Diwu Zhou says the Asian interest fraternity Lambda Phi Epsilon didn't give him a bid this fall because he's openly gay. In the wake of this allegation, LPhiE headquarters has suspended the chapter. Zhou says brothers asked him a "derogatory" question during the interview process.

On Monday afternoon, Clemson University sophomore Tucker Hipps was reported missing by the fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon. A few hours later police spotted him floating in a lake under a bridge and retrieved his body. He was pronounced dead just after 5 p.m. The question that members of the Clemson community now want answered is whether fraternity brothers were responsible for his death.

Context isn't really necessary to appreciate this video, but here's what we know about it: Six college-aged bros were caught reportedly breaking into Miami University (Ohio)'s Kappa Alpha house, confronted the guy filming them, and apparently attacked him with a bag of bagels.

Natalie Eaton, 18, was impaled by a golf club in a freak accident at one of Arkansas State University's first parties of this year. According to police, two guys were tossing a football back and forth at a Kappa Alpha rush cookout when one decided to "bat" the football with the club. The club broke and "impaled Eaton in the left side of her neck."

Fourteen members of a fraternity at a small Ohio college were arrested Thursday night and charged with hazing after their initiation rituals last October ended with a student in the hospital to have one of his testicles removed.

A 15-foot Minke whale washed up in New Jersey, and it wasn't long before someone notified the authorities. And by "notified the authorities," I mean "spraypainted a fraternity logo on the dead whale."

A fraternity chapter at the University of Mississippi has been shut down after three members hung a noose around the neck of a statue of James Meredith, the university's first-ever black student.

Last summer, the University of Alabama campus was rocked by allegations that the fabled Greek scene was racist. Well, not allegations: The school's all-white sororities rejected two women because they weren't white. The school's student Senate had a chance to fix things. But last week, they said "fuck it."

Three "19-year-old white male freshmen from Georgia" at the University of Mississippi have been expelled from their fraternity, and the frat has been suspended from campus, after the trio reportedly hung a noose and Confederate-themed flag over the statue of a black civil rights icon.

After centuries of American idiots drinking beer and doing stupid things, someone is finally taking a stand. Insurance companies! But also, The Atlantic's Caitlin Flanagan, in a new investigative piece, "The Dark Power of Fraternities." The occult forces seem to lie in dumb kids getting shit-faced falling to their deaths.

College is a time for exposure to different cultures, tastes, points of view. It's a great opportunity to put yourself in another's shoes. Let's go back to college now, and try to understand where Arizona State's Tau Kappa Epsilon chapter was coming from when it threw this "MLK Black Party."