Madison Police Capt. Kipp Hartman said Klein and Vane serve as president and vice president of Alpha Epsilon Pi. Lt. Chanda Dolsen said both face misdemeanor charges on suspicion of hazing. The university had stripped the fraternity of its official student organization status more than a decade earlier, but the group kept operating anyway.
This wasn't a sanctioned campus group getting disciplined through normal channels. It was an organization the university had already cut ties with, still running pledge activities years later, until police got involved over conditions serious enough to press charges.
For the roughly 30 students found in that basement, the incident means a hazing investigation now sits on record. For the fraternity's leadership, it means criminal charges rather than just a university reprimand. How did a group banned from campus for more than ten years keep recruiting and operating long enough to end up in a police report?
The charges land on two 20-year-olds running an organization the school stopped recognizing years before.