Delta Tau Delta

On October 7, 1957, Max Caulk, a member of the chapter, drowned during a fraternity ritual in which he was thrown from the pier into the ocean.^[17]

University of California, Santa Barbara

A fire gutted the Delta Tau Delta chapter house at in February 1968, resulting in $125,000 in damages.^[18] The fire started while the brothers were sleeping; some jumped from the third floor to escape.^[18] Several brothers were hospitalized, but all managed to escape to safety.^[18]

Bowling Green State University

In the 1970s and 1980s various Delta Tau Delta chapters held Mekong Delta-themed parties, referring to the in Southwestern Vietnam where towns were devastated during the Vietnam War.^[19] For years, Vietnam veterans spoke out against this event, saying it made light of the war and those who served in it.^[19] In 2020, these parties were again brought into the news when during the reelection campaign of Congressman Harley Rouda who had participated in these parties while he was a member of Delta Tau Delta at the University of Kentucky. At the time, Rouda's district was 10% Vietnamese Americans.^[20]

Mekong River Delta

Delta Tau Delta freshman pledge Johnny D. Smith died of alcohol poisoning at chapter party in 2008.^[21] Wabash College shut down the fraternity and revoked the lease on its chapter house.^[22][23][24] Smith's parents sued the Beta Psi chapter and the college.^[25]

Wabash College

In 2010, the chapter pled no contest to a hazing charge and received a five-year suspension in addition to $12,000 in fines and restitution. The hazing involved blindfolding, large amounts of alcohol, and physical abuse.^[26] The chapter was rechartered in 2018, only to be suspended by the university again in 2021.^[27][28] The fraternity is eligible for reinstatement by the university in 2025.^[28]

Ohio University

In 2015, an anonymous police report alleged that the chapter was forcing pledges to fistfight in the basement of the fraternity house.^[29] The chapter was temporarily suspended by the university.^[30][29] The national fraternity suspended the chapter after new allegations of hazing in September 2019.^[31]

Florida State University

In late May 2015, two people were stabbed at the Delta Tau Delta house at .^[32][33][34] The assailant and the victims were not Tufts students or fraternity members but one was an invited guest to the chapter house. No brothers witnessed the stabbings.^[35][34]

Tufts University

In 2016, the chapter was suspended because of an inappropriate audition video for The Real World television series that was filmed inside the chapter house.^[36][37]

West Virginia University

The fraternity and Indiana University were sued in 2016 for negligence in a rape case in 2016.^[39] The lawsuit claimed that neither the university nor the fraternity removed the accused brother after the first claims of rape nor did anything to stop underaged drinking at the chapter.^[38] In a plea bargain, the accused brother pled guilty to a lesser charge of battery in exchange for dropping rape charges stemming from two different incidents, one inside the fraternity's chapter house.^[38][40] In 2018, the court ruled that the fraternity was negligent in failing to remove the brother after the first allegation of rape was made.^[41]

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The chapter was suspended due to hazing in 2000 and 2019.^[42][43] The latter involved forced binge drinking and beatings with a spiked paddle; the university banned the chapter from campus until 2035.^[44][45][46] Eighteen brothers were charged with hazing; half pled guilty in court.^[47]

Miami University

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