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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University is conducting a week-long campaign to educate and alert the campus community against hazing. The university’s second annual Hazing Prevention Week began yesterday (Sept. 27) and runs through Oct. 3. The week includes a town hall forum and an anti-hazing pledge drive. Educational initiatives will culminate with the Interfraternity [...]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue student organization will kick off its fundraising efforts for earthquake victims in Haiti on Thursday (Jan.14) night outside Elliott Hall of Music before and after the Lady Gaga concert. The Purdue Organization for Labor Equality, in partnership with Purdue Student Government, has initiated a campus-wide effort to raise money [...]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -– A Purdue student group is claiming the Dean of Students Office is showing politically motivated, preferential treatment of some student organizations and their right to protest on campus. The student members of the Conservative Coalition for American Values (CCAV) feel they were denied the right to protest a memorial display constructed [...]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue officials on Wednesday (March 11) announced that two fraternities and a sorority have been placed on probation for violating the university’s hazing policies. Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, 629 University St., and Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, 325 Waldron St., were placed on probation after new fraternity members were required to drink [...]

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University on Wednesday (Feb. 25) announced that 10 students face disciplinary action stemming from cheating allegations. Steve Akers, the university’s executive associate dean of students, said an investigation was launched after university officials became aware that some students enrolled in a sophomore-level engineering class may have cheated on a test. [...]