In late 2018 a detailed Power Point presentation on the circumstances surrounding the death and private investigation into Robert’s death was made to Walt Jones and his 1st assistant of the District Attorney’s Office of Guilford County (High Point) NC. The lead...

 In September 2018, Bloomberg published a detailed investigative article on Robert’s life at High Point University and the Delta Sigma Phi chapter he was pledging.  This article, written by renowned journalist John Hechinger details the circumstances...

An appeals court agrees a fraternity should be dismissed from a lawsuit alleging a pledge at a private North Carolina university died from hazing. The state Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday the mother of Robert Eugene Tipton Jr. didn’t offer sufficient evidence that...

The family of a fraternity pledge who died in 2012 is suing North Carolina's High Point University, alleging that hazing led to his death and that school officials had knowledge of the fraternity's conduct. The News & Record of Greensboro reports that...

Robert Eugene Tipton Jr., who was pledging Delta Sigma Phi at HPU, “was hazed viciously by members of Delta Sig at the direction” of Michael Qubein, son of university President Nido Qubein and one of Tipton’s classmates, the suit alleges. Click here to read more from...

According to news reports, the family claims that the day before he died, Tipton was told he had to attend what the fraternity dubbed a “counseling session” at the off-campus apartment. After arriving, they say that members of Delta Sigma Phi proceeded to viciously...

To join, they say it would cost him his life. A North Carolina fraternity pledge died after being "violently assaulted and battered" during a hazing ritual led by the university president's own son in 2012, a newly filed lawsuit claims. Click here to read more on the...