37 frat bros charged in hazing death

Is that what they're calling it these days?

 

I hope readers continue to use some intelligence when they read.

"Hazing" occurs now and did before; no doubt. But hazing has many forms as we've seen. Just because a study says 55% experience doesn't mean 55% experience getting clubbed to death or being made to drink to your death; those are forms of hazing, but so is being made to walk around in your underwear on the quad. Big difference though.

Our fraternity, distilled down, was about (1) Friday Night parties at our [small] house; (2) hanging out when not in class; (3) seeing what "Little Sisters" wanted to hang out with us; and (4) other social exchanges with other sororities.

Did we have hazing? Sure, because that's what history dictated and cannot just make it a free for all in terms of who gets in.

 

Boot camp was the same way.

It's still hazing.

 

I'm pretty sure no one in the history of everything ever claimed that 55 percent of frat bros die during pledge week.

The point was to illustrate that what caused the death, hazing, is in fact "typical" in frat life.

 

Of course they can, but but folks wet their pants about the "culture" of frats, and a bunch of first generation Asian kids, who went to elite public high schools, and who attend a commuter college that is part of the CUNY system, which doesn't even have frat houses, is not the embodiment of frat culture.

That's irrelevant. They were portrayed as the stereotypical frat. They were a mostly white frat on a campus steeped in Southern culture.

They were the kind of kids you had to be worried about. Their "privilege" would allow them to get away with anything.

Erdely would have never set her false story in the Baruch College frat because it wouldn't serve the political/social goals of her story.

 

No argument there.