Rush Week

Toni Daniels, a journalism major at Tambler College, is assigned to cover rush week. She begins interviewing members of the fraternities and the campus dean, Dean Grail, to gather material for her story. The assignment sets the investigation on a dangerous path as rumors and tension rise on campus.

Julie McGuffin participates in a nude modeling session in the university science building and then vanishes. Toni learns of Julie's disappearance and begins to secretly investigate the case.

Alma Gifford flees from the Beta Delta Beta fraternity after a prank. She is chased by a cloaked killer wielding an axe and dies in the woods.

Toni questions Julie's roommate Sarah and learns that Julie used to model for an unnamed man who paid her. Julie had met this man through Alma, who has also gone missing.

Toni confronts Jeff Jacobs, the head of Beta Delta Beta, about Alma's disappearance. He claims Alma fled the fraternity and cannot be found.

Jeff begins to romance Toni. She agrees to go on a picnic with him.

Byron warns Toni that Jeff has not been the same since his former girlfriend, the Dean's daughter, was murdered and dismembered in the campus science building the previous year. The warning hints at Jeff's troubled past and possible danger.

Arnold Krangen, the campus cafeteria chef, offers Toni money to pose for him. She notices a double-sided axe emblem on a hundred-dollar bill and recalls its appearance on Julie's notes.

Toni breaks into Arnold's house and finds pornographic photos of female students. She confronts Dean Grail with the evidence.

Dean Grail dismisses Arnold as a sexual deviant and does not believe he is a killer. The Dean's arrogance complicates the investigation and fuels Toni's suspicions.

On the night of the rush week's culminating bash, Toni learns that Rebecca Winters has vanished after apparently meeting a man in the science building. She phones Jeff's fraternity and asks Byron to relay that Jeff should meet her in the science building; she also calls Arnold and pretends to accept his modeling offer.

Toni waits inside the science building for Arnold; he arrives and is killed by the cloaked axe-wielding attacker.

Toni confronts Jeff, dressed in a cloak and mask, and suspects him to be the killer. A second masked assailant identical to Jeff appears, revealing himself to be Dean Grail, who explains his motive to purge the campus of sinful women. A fight erupts and Jeff decapitates Grail, ending the killer's spree.