He complained to fraternity actives about his pain, but was ignored and forced to continue participating in Ingress. Munoz did not realize he was bleeding internally. Munoz received a surprise tackle during the glow stick game which lacerated his spleen. Next, the pledges were forced to play the “glow stick game” where they were tackled in the dark by active members of the fraternity.
Munoz recounted that the beer cans were so hot that the pledges had to use their shirt sleeves as heat insulators to hold the cans. Each pledge was forced to drink at least two of these heated beers. They were made to parade around and chant “ingress is fun, haze us.”Īt one point, an active fraternity member asked if the pledges were hungry and told them they would be fed “cookies.” The pledges were then forced to line up in file to eat the “cookies”, cans of beer heated up on a stove to pressurize them to explode when opened. They were forced to do two-hour intervals of calisthenics to the point of exhaustion. Throughout the next three days, the pledges were deprived of food, drink and sleep. Munoz and other pledges were forced to roll around in the human waste as part of the Ingress ritual. Inside this house were floors coverted in vomit, spit, and feces. He alleges that during the pledge process, he was forced to take part in a three-day ritual called “Ingress.” On the first day of Ingress, PIKE pledges were taken to an abandoned and dilapidated house not far from the University.
Munoz was 20-years-old when he pledged Pi Kappa Alpha (“PIKE”) in November 2016. The hazing allegations are truly disturbing. On September 18, 2018, Jared Anthony Munoz brought claims of civil conspiracy against the fraternity and claims of hazing and personal injury against its members for the way he was treated while undergoing the pledge process. for events surrounding its Epsilon Eta Chapter at the University of Houston. International Fraternity Pi Kappa Alpha Faces Lawsuit Against University of Houston StudentĪ lawsuit has been filed against the Pi Kappa Alpha International Fraternity, Inc.