An East Carolina University fraternity was suspended amid an investigation into reported hazing, university officials said Wednesday.

According to a university crime log, a “campus security authority” on Saturday received a report regarding an alleged hazing incident at Sigma Tau Gamma on Friday afternoon.

Sigma Tau Gamma has been placed on an operational suspension “while allegations are reviewed,” an ECU spokesperson said in a statement. That means Sigma Tau Gamma must halt all activities, including recruitment, new member activities and social events, according to the spokesperson.

The suspension, first reported by ABC12 Greenville, comes days after N.C. State University’s oldest fraternity Sigma Nu was suspended indefinitely by its national organization amid serious hazing allegations.

Members of Sigma Nu were ordered to move out of the building by Tuesday afternoon as police continue their investigation into the alleged hazing — probing allegations that include physical abuse, death threats, vomiting into members’ mouths and forced drug use.

Universities are required by federal law to report all hazing allegations on the campus crime log “whether they are ultimately substantiated or not,” the ECU spokesperson said. The spokesperson declined to comment on the details of the hazing allegations.

ECU is located in Greenville, North Carolina, about 85 miles east of Raleigh.

More than a dozen hazing incidents at ECU in 2025, crime report states

ECU saw 17 alleged hazing offenses in non-campus buildings in 2025, according to an annual crime report last year — 15 of which came from a single fraternity. That fraternity is left unnamed in the report, but ECU officials last year suspended its Phi Kappa Tau fraternity for multiple incidents of hazing in September 2025.

The fraternity was suspended until at least May 2029, the report states.

There were three hazing incidents at N.C. State in 2025, according to the university’s hazing transparency reports.

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