Fraternity-Hazing Victim at Francis Marion U. Is Awarded $1.6-Million

The former student, Daniel McElveen, spent eight days in the hospital after the hazing incident, in 2011, at the home of Maurice Robinson, a Phi Beta Sigma member and alumnus of the South Carolina university, The State reported.

Mr. McElveen, who suffered kidney damage from a brutal paddling during the fraternity’s “Hell Night” initiation, later sued the university, the fraternity, and Mr. Robinson. He settled last year with the university and the fraternity.

Mr. Robinson, who argued during the trial that Mr. McElveen had allowed himself to be hazed, was one of several people charged with hazing, in a case that is still pending, the Associated Press reported.

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The lawsuit claimed that the final night of initiation was the culmination of a pattern of hazing that included McElveen being forced to eat unidentified foods, being blindfolded and driven off campus, wearing the same dirty clothes each night and being deprived of sleep.

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