Break out the soap and pass it on to the boys of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity - apparently, they wash their hands of any part in the mob beating of a random man by possible visitors of their house last week.

The assault, which took place in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, involved about 15 people attacking a 31-year-old student who passed by the North Tyndall Avenue fraternity house while visitors, many in Halloween garb, partied outside.

The victim was not an acquaintance of any of the men he met that night, and was approached by one of the men gathered outside as he walked by the house at about 2:30 a.m., he told the Wildcat earlier this week.

The men chatted for a bit, and then, as the victim left, several men who he described as acting "suspicious" followed him and assaulted him, bloodying his face and stealing his backpack, he said.