Ayach

FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS BELOW

A. UC Riverside’s Initial Investigation of

Phi Gamma Delta In early 2019, UC Riverside’s Student Conduct and Academic Integrity Programs office (SCAIP) received a report expressing concern for the health of a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity (PGD) pledge class at UC Riverside. SCAIP began an investigation into the PGD pledge process. During the time period relevant to the disciplinary investigation, Nofal was PGD’s UC Riverside chapter president, and Ayach was the “disciplinarian” for the chapter’s pledge campaign. (Capitalization omitted.) SCAIP’s investigator conducted interviews of most of PGD’s 2018 and 2019 pledges. During these interviews, the pledges stated that: (1) As part of the pledge process, pledges were forced to complete workouts as “punishments”; (2) at least one such workout took place outdoors at night for several hours; (3) PGD had a practice of taking away “pledge pins,” which in one instance led to an altercation in which a pledge used a projectile stun gun on a PGD member (“tasing” the member); (4) PGD had a “check” system that required pledges to complete household tasks and chores for the members to work off their…