{"id":481526,"date":"2026-10-01T11:14:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/481526\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:14:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:14:20","slug":"gofundme-created-by-family-of-csuf-student-who-died-following-fraternity-event-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/481526\/","title":{"rendered":"GoFundMe created by family of CSUF student who died following fraternity event | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The family of 18-year-old Anthony Blas, Cal State Fullerton student who died on Sept. 13 following an unaffiliated fraternity event, created a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/in-loving-memory-of-anthony-blas-04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">GoFundMe page<\/a> on Thursday to help cover funeral costs and to help spread awareness about the dangers of unaffiliated fraternities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hope is to work with lawmakers, educators, and communities to push for stronger awareness and education for incoming college students, especially freshmen, about fake, underground, and unrecognized fraternities and organizations,\u201d reads the GoFundMe page created by Gianna P.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Blas was dropped off at the St. Jude Medical Center unresponsive, and according to the Fullerton Police Department, was declared dead at 12:07 a.m. According to the preliminary investigation, alcohol seems to have been a factor in the death, but the full autopsy will be released after the investigation, which could take up to six months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fraternity Blas had attended identifies itself as Delta Chi. They have\u00a0 been unaffiliated with CSUF since 2021 after violating multiple university policies, including hazing and conspiracy to haze.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope to take Anthony\u2019s name and his memory to lawmakers and advocates and ask for stronger education and awareness, so that another young person and another family doesn\u2019t have to experience this kind of unimaginable loss,\u201d wrote his family on the GoFundMe page. \u201cAnthony\u2019s life mattered. His future mattered. And we want his memory to help protect other young people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their goal was to raise around $10,000. As of Sept. 29, they\u2019ve exceeded their goal, raising $13,115 across 175 donations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CSUF recognized National Hazing Prevention Week last week. On Sept. 18, the Dean of Students Office sent a campus-wide email reaffirming the commitments of CSUF\u2019s Fraternity and Sorority Life, maintaining safe and healthy learning environments and condemning relations to unrecognized organizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe condemn actions that jeopardize the safety, health, or well-being of any member of our community because such actions are inconsistent with these values,\u201d reads the email. \u201cWhen concerns arise, we agree that we have a shared responsibility to speak up, seek help, support one another, and to take appropriate action to protect our community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of 18-year-old Anthony Blas, Cal State Fullerton student who died on Sept. 13 following an unaffiliated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,183092,3005,18248,65280],"class_list":["post-481526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-anthony-blas","tag-csuf","tag-gofundme","tag-student-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}