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The Silence on Campus and the Fight for Savanna Jones When a family sends a child to a university like Wilberforce, they are entrusting that institution with a life. In April 2026, that trust was shattered. Savanna Jones was completing her first year at the nation’s oldest private HBCU when a ritual involving an unofficial group known as “The Turtles” turned lethal. The allegations are chilling: a freshman coerced into consuming an entire bottle of liquor, losing the ability to stand, and then—rather than being rushed to an emergency room—being carried back to a dormitory and left alone for hours while her body shut down. We are writing this because we know the specific gut-punch of this tragedy. Our firm is currently litigating high-profile hazing cases, including a $10M+ action against a major national fraternity, and we have seen exactly how institutions try to distance themselves from the “unofficial” groups they allow to operate in their dorms. In Wilberforce, Greene County, and across Ohio, the law has changed to stop this. If you are facing this nightmare, you need to know that the university’s prohibition of alcohol on paper does not excuse their failure to monitor the safety of the…