Inside America's 'Deadliest Fraternity'

By Laura Pellicer,

Published January 26, 2018 at 12:56 PM EST

Between 2005 and 2013, 10 students in the national college fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) died due to alcohol and hazing. Bloomberg journalist reported extensively on the frat and dubbed it the 鈥渄eadliest fraternity in America.鈥�

John Hechinger is Senior Editor with Bloomberg 瓜神app and the author of 'True Gentlemen: The Broken Pledge of America's Fraternities.'

In his new book (PublicAffairs/ 2017) Hechinger explores how Greek organizations became inextricably linked with the American college system and how the power and influence of fraternities strong-arms the schools themselves.

Host Frank Stasio speaks with Hechinger about Sigma Alpha Epsilon鈥檚 changing legacy.

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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's 瓜神app Director.

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