In the final episode of Broken Pledge, Shari Foltz and Kathleen Wiant talk with The Dispatch about their aspirations for a hazing-free future. After the loss of their sons Collin and Stone the mothers worked together to keep their promises by p

Chapter 7: Fighting For Collin

May 17th, 2021 31m

It’s been two and a half years since the Wiant family lost their son and brother, but their crusade against hazing has never slowed. They have endured the pandemic, a criminal investigation, court hearings, and the ordeal of trying to pass a ne

Chapter 8: ‘They killed him’

May 17th, 2021 36m 32s

On the night of March 4, 2021, Stone Foltz was ordered to drink a full bottle of alcohol by his fraternity brothers at Bowling Green State University. The hazing led to the death of Foltz, the second Ohio college to suffer a hazing-related deat

Broken Pledge behind the notebook: Explaining our deep dive into hazing

Feb 7th, 2020 30m 40s

Columbus Dispatch reporters Lucas Sullivan, Sheridan Hendrix, Mike Wagner, and audio engineer Patrick Flaherty sit down to discuss the Broken Pledge hazing project. During this show we discuss how this project got started, how we reported on th

Ohio Governor Wants Tougher Penalty For Hazing

Nov 20th, 2019 8m 58s

In an interview with the Columbus Dispatch following the newspaper'sBroken Pledge project, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine called for the stateto make hazing a felony and do what it can to eradicate the brutalbehavior that is leaving some students de

Chapter 3: The Downward Spiral

Nov 3rd, 2019 17m 30s

Collin Wiant is accused of sexual assault. His fraternity brothers take action but continue hazing. That triggers a decent that the university nor those closest to Collin saw.

Chapter 6: The Reckoning

Nov 3rd, 2019 32m 3s

In a disciplinary hearing before Ohio University officials, Collin Wiant's brothers make one last stand to save their fraternity.

Chapter 1: Brotherhood

Nov 3rd, 2019 20m 7s

Collin Wiant, like many college students, goes off to college looking for a place to belong on campus. But do they really know what they are getting into?

Chapter 2: The Pledge

Nov 3rd, 2019 23m 30s

Lured into a world that's hard to escape, fraternity pledges are sold on brotherhood, status, girls and all that comes with being in an elite fraternity.

Chapter 4: Regret

Nov 3rd, 2019 20m 26s

All along someone could have stopped Collin's death. Up until his final minutes decisions made by those who swore brotherhood helped cause his demise.

Chapter 5: Code Of Silence

Nov 3rd, 2019 23m 47s

An emergency meeting before the funeral signals a path Collin's Sigma Pi brothers will follow. And a brutal confession leads to a painful secret.

Broken Pledge Introduction

Oct 29th, 2019 2m 19s

Each year for at least the last two decades a fraternity pledge has died in this country. And every year the rinse-and-repeat cycle of freshmen hitting campus and being hazed by their peers goes unchanged. Broken Pledge is the story of how a te

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