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Hazing case takes turn, investigation complete

BANGOR – Bangor police are investigating a complaint made by a Mu Sigma Chi fraternity member against a Husson College student who filed a report of an alleged hazing incident on Sunday.

According to Brocke Robinson, brothers of the fraternity claim that Robinson had threatened them with a gun.

“Yesterday I got hauled out of class and taken down to the security office,” Robinson said.

“One of the brothers from the fraternity went down to the Bangor Police Department and made accusations that I was terrorizing them with a firearm after the incident,” Robinson said.

According to police, the incident has been turned over to the district attorney’s office and is under investigation.

Robinson said his vehicle was searched, but nothing was found.

“I don’t even own a firearm, never have,” Robinson said.

Robinson said this was an attempt at retaliating against his reporting the hazing incident.

“They’ve made comments to a lot of other people, but nothing directly to me,” he said.

Husson College’s Department of Safety and Security has completed its investigation of the hazing incident alleged by Robinson.

Robinson, 25, said brothers of the on-campus fraternity Mu Sigma Chi threatened him after he refused their order to drink human urine as part of an alleged hazing event for new pledges.

“The investigation has been completed and the information is being put into report form and the appropriate people will meet to discuss that,” Husson spokeswoman Julie Green said. The dean of the college has been away for several days, but is expected to return to his office today to handle the process of reviewing the facts of the investigation.

The incident occurred at about 10 p.m. Saturday, March 27, in the Mu Sigma Chi lounge where Robinson said one of the brothers went behind a couch and allegedly urinated into a bottle. The brother then poured the bottle’s contents into a bowl and told the four pledges in attendance to crawl toward the bowl while saying, “Chow, chow, chow,” and to drink from it.

Robinson is no longer pledging the fraternity and said he initially wanted to join because he had heard it would look good on his resume.

Robinson, who lives in Old Town with his wife and three children transferred to Husson this year from Beal College. He hopes to graduate in May 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master’s degree in business.

Green was unsure when a final decision would be made regarding the incident, but said it was safe to say it would happen as quickly as possible.

The fraternity remains under suspension pending the results of the investigation, Green said.

According to a Feb. 5, 2003, memo from John Rubino, dean of the college, to Husson’s Greek Governing Board, hazing activities are defined as “any action taken or situation created intentionally, whether on or off fraternity premises, to produce mental or physical discomfort, embarrassment, harassment or ridicule.”

The memo specifies “forced or required consumption of any food, liquor, drug or any other substance” as a hazing activity.

Correction: This article ran on page B1 in the State edition.

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