This year’s theme was Building Peace Where There’s No Peace.Īrt created by Bowling Green school children for this year's fifth annual interfaith breakfast. The panelists represented different faiths as did the featured speakers in a video presentation made by organizers. That message seemed loud and clear at Tuesday’s breakfast at the Junior Fair Building. In the Acts of the Apostles in the Christian Bible, it states: “All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.” - Acts 2:4įor those not familiar with the passage, despite the different languages, each person was able to fully understand everything he or she heard.
Pooley, Sentinel Tribune)įorgive a Christian reference as the opening to the story of the fifth annual Community Interfaith Breakfast. Vijaya Shrestha (left) talks with Nadine Edwards before Shrestha spoke on a panel during the annual Community Interfaith Breakfast at the Wood County Fairgrounds Tuesday morning. Stone Foltz’s death also spurred changes beyond Bowling Green, including a new state law that created tougher criminal penalties for hazing - a proposal first made after an Ohio University student died in 2018 after ingesting nitrous oxide at a fraternity house.This article by Bill Ryan, first appeared in the Sentinel-Tribune newspaper. The university also developed a plan to address anti-hazing efforts, including hiring a prevention coordinator and making it easier for students to tell the school about hazing. “Hazing and pledge programs are a relic of the past.”Īfter the hazing death, Bowling Green expelled Pi Kappa Alpha and said it would never again be recognized on campus. “Greek organizations will not survive if hazing doesn’t come to an end,” Elliott said. Their attorney, Rex Elliott, said on Monday that the university is making an effortto prevent another tragedy from happening and that colleges nationwide must play a role in reforming how fraternities and sororities bring in new members.
In their lawsuit, Foltz’s parents accused the school of failing to stop hazing in fraternities and sororities despite being aware of it.
Their defense attorneys had argued Foltz was not forced or required to finish the entire bottle and made that decision on his own. Two of the eight, though, were acquitted last year of more serious charges including involuntary manslaughter and reckless homicide. The settlement with the university is on top of more than $7 million in payouts made to the family by the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity and those who had a role in the hazing, according to court documents.Įight former fraternity members either pleaded guilty or were found guilty on various charges, including reckless homicide, hazing and giving alcohol to a minor. Leading these efforts in our communities is the real work that honors Stone,” the statement said. “This resolution keeps the Foltz family and BGSU community from reliving the tragedy for years to come in the courtroom and allows us to focus on furthering our shared mission of eradicating hazing in Ohio and across the nation.
He died three days after he was put on life support.īoth sides said in a joint statement issued Monday that they will be forever impacted by his death. “We can continue our fight saving lives,” said Shari Foltz, whose son died died of alcohol poisoning in March 2021.Ī university investigation found that the 20-year-old had attended a fraternity initiation event where there was a tradition of new members finishing or attempting to finish a bottle of alcohol, according to a university investigation.įoltz, from Delaware, Ohio, was found unconscious after members of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity dropped him off at his apartment. Foltz’s parents have started a foundation focused on hazing education and have spoke to students at other universities about its dangers.
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