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Vandy Settles Hazing Lawsuit
Vanderbilt University has settled a lawsuit with a student who claims he was badly injured after a hazing incident at one of the school's fraternities.
Most of what we know from a statement released Friday morning before the lawsuit was settled.
Attorneys for Craig Coyne threatened to sue Vanderbilt for covering up the hazing and other hazing incidents.
The hazing happened last spring at the Sigma Nu fraternity at Vanderbilt, Coyne's attorneys said. Coyne required several skin grafts for treatment of third degree burns following the hazing.
University spokesman Michael Schoenfeld said the university continues to have a tough policy against hazing. "We will not tolerate any kind of hazing activity that is undertaken by any of our students or any of our student organizations. We will take seriously any complaints and take immediate steps as far as the disciplinary process."
Sigma Nu was suspended last year after the hazing.
Script for Andrea Yates video
The verdict on Andrea Yates is in.
VOICE OVER
The jury in Houston deliberated for 3 hours and 40 minutes before finding Yates guilty.
Yates admitted drowning her 5 children in the bathtub last summer.
The defense argued she was not guilty by reason of insanity, but jurors didn't agree.
The jury was made up of 8 women and 4 men.
Two of the female jurors had bachelor degrees in psychology.
The jurors will reconvene tomorrow morning at 10:30 to begin the sentencing phase of the trial.
Yates could be sentenced to life in prison or get the death penalty.
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