Tag: law student

Aguirre orders NBI to probe UST law student’s death

  (Eagle News) – Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II has ordered the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to probe the death of 22-year old University of the Sto. Tomas (UST) law freshman Horacio Tomas Castillo III during a “welcome rites” of the Aegis Juris fraternity. Aguirre, an alumnus of San Beda’s Lex Talionis Fraternitas, said that “deaths and physical injuries due to hazing have no place in a civilized society.” “The loss of a life […]

UST suspends all Aegis Juris frat members and officers; orders probe on hazing death

  (Eagle News) – All officers and members of the Aegis Juris fraternity had been preventively suspended by the University of Sto. Tomas Faculty of Civil Law which barred their entry to the UST campus.  This was following the death of a 22-year old freshman law student Horacio Tomas “Atio” Castillo III in a reported hazing incident involving the fraternity. The preventive suspension was effective September 18, 2017 according to Memorandum Order No. 2017-Sept-18-01 posted […]