College freshman dies after heavy drinking at Fresno frat house. Hazing involved?

Scallywag and Vagabond


Photo: Philip Dhanens on the right. Image via facebook.

Philip Dhanens, an 18 year old college freshman at Fresno State University has died after a heavy night of drinking as part of an initiation ceremony at an off campus frat house.

Only a student at the school for less than two weeks, police are now investigating underage drinking at Fresno State whilst college officials suspended the Theta Chi fraternity, the frat house which facilitated the underage drinking.

According to witnesses, Dhanens had been drinking quite heavily since Friday night into Saturday morning when the decision was made to put him in the ‘sober up’ room. When fellow frat members came to check up on him later they found him unconscious. Rushed to hospital it was there that the family learned that the young freshman had suffered severe brain damage with his family deciding Sunday to take him off life support with the promise of donating his organs.

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