Ten current or former students at Louisiana State University were arrested Wednesday in connection with the death last month of an 18-year-old freshman who became severely intoxicated during a fraternity hazing ordeal, the latest in a series of student deaths following such rituals.

One of the students, Matthew Naquin of Fair Oaks Ranch, Tex., faces a felony charge of negligent homicide in addition to a misdemeanor charge of hazing. The other nine face misdemeanor hazing charges, according to the university’s police.

On the morning of Sept. 14, Maxwell Gruver, an aspiring sportswriter, was taken by two fellow students to a Baton Rouge hospital, where he was declared dead. He had passed out on a couch at the fraternity house around midnight.

A toxicology report on Mr. Gruver, of Roswell, Ga., revealed that his blood alcohol content was .496 percent, more than six times the legal limit for driving, and that he had aspirated vomit into his lungs. The cause of death was “acute ethanol intoxication with aspiration,” according to the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner’s Office.