Rutgers Investigates Hazing Allegation At Kappa Sigma Fraternity

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:

• Chi Phi Fraternity - Organization Disciplinary Probation (with Conditions) until June 25, 2026
• Delta Chi Fraternity - Disciplinary Probation (with Conditions) until all sanctions are completed.
• Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. - Suspended until Certificate of Insurance is submitted.
• Kappa Sigma Fraternity - Cease & Desist of all chapter operations.
• Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity - Organization Disciplinary Probation w/o Conditions, no hosting /sponsoring/organizing/endorsing/planning or participating in any events with alcohol until October 15, 2026. (Source: greeklife.rutgers.edu/chapters/chapter-status-updates)

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.

• Alpha Phi Omega Fraternity - Closed January 2026
• Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity - Closed Fall 2025
• Alpha Zeta Omega Co-Ed Professional Pharmaceutical Fraternity – Closed Spring 2019
• Delta Epsilon Psi Fraternity - Closed Spring 2022
• Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. - Closed Fall 2025
• Delta Upsilon Fraternity - Closed Spring 2025
• Mu Sigma Upsilon Sorority, Inc. – Closed Spring 2020
• Omega Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. - Closed Spring 2026
• Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity - Closed Fall 2025
• Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity - Closed Fall 2022
• Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity - Closed Spring 2021
• Sigma Lambda Upsilon Sorority, Inc. - Closed Fall 2025
• Sigma Phi Delta Fraternity - Closed Spring 2026
• Sigma Sigma Rho Sorority, Inc - Closed Summer 2024
• Theta Chi Fraternity - Closed Fall 2022
• Tau Kappa Epsilon – Closed Spring 2021
• Theta Delta Chi - Closed Fall 2021