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State College Hazing Wrongful Death: Fraternity Liability, Pennsylvania Law, and the Fight After a Student Is Killed If you are reading this, you already know the worst version of what a fraternity can do to a family. The news that Penn State is buying the property at 220 N. Burrowes Road — the former Beta Theta Pi house where a 19-year-old student was killed during a hazing ritual in 2017 — is not closure. A real estate transaction does not hold anyone accountable. A $7.3 million purchase price does not measure what a life was worth. The deed reversion clause that dragged through litigation since 2018 is a property-law footnote. The wrongful death and survival claims are a separate fight, and they are the fight that matters. We are the trial team at Attorney911, and we build hazing wrongful death cases. We are currently lead counsel in a ten-million-dollar hazing lawsuit against a university and a national fraternity — and what we know from that work is this: hazing deaths are never accidents. They are the foreseeable product of an organization that chose to run a dangerous ritual, chose to staff it with people who would not call for help,…