Chuck Stenzel was a student who died in a fraternity

Fraternities and sororities

Fraternities and sororities are fraternal social organizations for undergraduate students. In Latin, the term refers mainly to such organizations at colleges and universities in the United States, although it is also applied to analogous European groups also known as corporations...

 hazing

Hazing

Hazing is a term used to describe various ritual and other activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group....

 incident at Alfred University

Alfred University

Alfred University is a small, comprehensive university in the Village of Alfred in Western New York, USA, an hour and a half south of Rochester and two hours southeast of Buffalo. Alfred has an undergraduate population of around 2,000, and approximately 300 graduate students...

in 1978. Chuck aspirated vomit while passed out following an evening of drinking at Klan Alpine fraternity, now defunct. He had been transported to the frat house in a car trunk along with two other pledges.

Alfred University has since completely eliminated fraternities and sororities.

After Chuck's death, his mother, Eileen Stevens, formed C.H.U.C.K., the committee to halt useless college killings.