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ASU Police's own Clery 60-day log (Aug. 14 to Oct. 13, 2026) lists 430 cases, including 8 reports of sexual assault or sexual abuse, about 20 assaults and fights, and 59 bike, e-bike and scooter thefts. 234 entries are marked "No Solvability Factors (Inactive)," meaning police found no leads to pursue.

Head coach Greg Powers is now ASU's former hockey coach. ASU placed him on paid administrative leave Sept. 30, two days after seven players sent President Michael Crow a 26-page letter through an attorney asking for the staff behind the Aug. 20 workout to be removed pending an independent investigation. ASU is reportedly in talks to hire former NHL head coach Dave Hakstol.

Tempe Police arrested hundreds of underage drinkers in raids near ASU in 2024 and 2025, including 173 in one raid at Tempe Tavern in spring 2025 and 249 people under 21 in a second raid there in November 2025, mostly for fake IDs and underage drinking. Tempe Tavern, a longtime college-crowd bar near Apache Boulevard and McClintock Drive, abruptly closed in September 2026.

Phoenix New Times reports on an 18-year-old who says she was handed wine on arrival at a "Wine Wednesday" rush party at an off-campus fraternity house near Meyer Park. Her lawsuit alleges she came out of a bathroom with visible abrasions and bruising around her neck consistent with strangulation. We haven't verified the fraternity's name or its ASU status. Read the full story at the source.

ASU hired Dietram Scheufele as a Foundation Professor of Communications this fall, weeks after he resigned from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. UW-Madison investigators found he violated its policy against romantic relationships with students under his authority, having such relationships with two of his students, and broke a faculty rule requiring professional honesty and integrity.

Sophomore defenseman Matthew Mayich, 21, collapsed during an Aug. 20 team workout led by a former Green Beret and has been hospitalized ever since; family attorneys say his condition is irreversible. ASU's own preliminary review found coaches never submitted the training plan to the university's strength and conditioning staff.

Bodycam video shows Tempe police shoving senior Eryn Bonner to the ground and pinning her against a police bike as officers arrested two of her friends outside a nightclub. She was left bruised and later charged with two misdemeanors; her attorney calls the force excessive.

The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights warned ASU and 59 other universities they could face enforcement action for failing to protect Jewish students under Title VI. ASU is among 55 schools under investigation or monitoring after complaints; the department did not detail the complaints against ASU.

ASU's own annual security reports show the Tempe campus recorded 30 rape reports, 33 fondling reports and 3 statutory rape reports from 2018 to 2021, more than any other ASU campus. Six sexual-violence reports there were classified as unfounded.

The U.S. Department of Education found ASU violated federal law by requiring a student who reported a rape in February 2020 to sign a nondisclosure agreement before she could see the written findings of her disciplinary hearing. The notice also gave no clear reasoning for the outcome and didn't mention her right to appeal.

A State Press investigation found ASU recorded 68 rapes from 2017 to 2019. Of the 11 cases ASU Police referred to the county attorney, all 11 were refused. Since 2014, 277 sexual assaults were reported to the university, 147 were investigated, and fewer than half of the 101 formal cases could have ended in punishment.

A former student alleged in a Title IX suit that ASU police refused to authorize a rape kit or drug screen after she was assaulted at a fraternity party, interviewed no fraternity members, and underreported campus assaults to look safer.

In J.K. v. Arizona Board of Regents, a former student sued under Title IX in 2006 over her rape and how ASU handled former football player Darnel Henderson; former head coach Dirk Koetter was also named. The Board of Regents paid her $850,000 from the state's self-insurance fund, which her lawyers called the second-largest sexual assault settlement on record.