Subsequent awareness of the issues within the scandal helped lead to President Biden signing the Stop Campus Hazing Act into law on Christmas Eve of 2024.

[9] Throughout the renovation process, fraternity brothers smashed holes in the walls with baseball bats, leading Abbey to predict future damage to the property.

Due to the toxic culture he found in Beta Theta Pi, he installed an extensive video surveillance system to ensure he would be notified if an emergency situation ever occurred on the property.

Brothers once held a party on their front porch, yelling racial slurs at an African American Penn State student as he walked past the house.

[11] In September 2016, Kordel Davis, a Beta Theta Pi pledge, was driven to a clinic after a night of hazing that left a gash on his head.

Joseph Dado was an 18-year-old Penn State student who died after being served drugs and alcohol by fraternities Phi Gamma Delta and Alpha Tau Omega in September 2009.

Two Penn State students received criminal charges as a result of his death, and the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity stood trial.

[14] Dado’s death led to Penn State President Graham Spanier presenting a 30-component strategy to the Board of Trustees on a plan to combat the university’s binge drinking epidemic.

[15] Marquise Braham was an 18-year-old student at Penn State Altoona who committed suicide on March 14, 2014, due to the trauma endured while being hazed at the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity.

[3] Nine days prior to his death, Braham exchanged text messages with his dormitory resident assistant indicating that he needed counseling as a result of the trauma endured within the fraternity.

[4] St. Moritz Security Services failed to shut the party down, despite sending investigators to the house on February 2, 2017, and maintaining knowledge that Beta was supposed to remain alcohol-free.

He was carried to a couch, where surveillance cameras captured a conspicuous bruise that bloomed on his left abdomen; however, this was shown to have originated from another one of the alcohol-fueled rush events for fraternities that Piazza had attended a week earlier.

Once he was finally able to maintain balance, he staggered toward the lobby area of the house, but fell again headfirst into an iron railing and landed on a stone floor, likely incurring serious head trauma.

[4] On August 11, 2017, on the fifth day of the preliminary hearing, it was announced by lead investigators that basement footage from the bid acceptance on February 2, 2017, had in fact been deleted by a defendant already charged in the case.

Lead prosecutor Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller noted that additional charges would be filed as a result of this finding.

[28] On the same day, defense attorneys for a number of the defendants started to put blame on Tim Bream, the Penn State Nittany Lions football head athletic trainer and Beta Theta Pi live-in advisor.

[29] On February 8, 2019, Parks Miller received a law license suspension of one year and one day for communicating improperly with judges and defense attorneys.

[33] North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) CEO Jud Horras denied the existence of the ‘Shep Test’ in America’s modern-day fraternities.

The ‘Shep Test’ also includes mind games, in which active brothers ask pledges to drink "blood" (actually hot sauce) and walk over glass blindfolded (actually broken chips).

[48] On October 10, 2022, it was reported that Robert Greenblatt is developing a Hulu miniseries entitled Death at Penn State, based on Caitlin Flanagan's 2017 article in The Atlantic about the events surrounding the Piazza case.

[51] The grand jury that recommended charges against the brothers also directed Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller to investigate Penn State University and their role and response to hazing.

During many months of testimony from multiple witnesses, including former pledges and others with first-hand experience, the Grand Jury collected evidence about the University's response and handling of hazing across the board.

Pledges that testified confirmed that hazing had become routine behind the closed doors of the fraternity houses with Penn State turning a blind eye and adopting a hands-off approach.

As a result of this evidence, the Grand Jury released a scathing 236-page report regarding hazing and excessive alcohol consumption at Penn State fraternities.

This scenario has been analyzed in a number of books, including Discover Sociology: Core Concepts[58] and Harvard University Press's Why We Act: Turning Bystanders Into Moral Rebels.

[59] The Chronicle of Higher Education pointed out that four pledges died in 2017 alone, but the added media coverage the Piazza case has attracted can help lead to monumental change for the first time.

[60] In 2020, the Villanova University School of Law analyzed a Penn State football hazing lawsuit in which a victim sued head coach James Franklin.

[67] In March 2021, Bream sued Penn State a second time, claiming the university violated his contract and created "intolerable" working conditions as a result of his role in the Beta Theta Pi house.

[70] In March 2023, an internal memo was leaked by the press indicating Penn State holds desires to go back to the Greek life culture predating Piazza's death.

[71] In December 2021, Centre County Judge Brian Marshall ruled that Penn State can take ownership of the Beta Theta Pi house.