It just gets freaking old... Fraternity deaths.

[keithbvadu2]

It just gets freaking old... Fraternity deaths.

On the news tonight, they talked about the trial of seven fraternity brothers in the death of an incoming initiate. These people are old enough and smart enough to know the history of such deaths. More pressure should be put up on the national fraternities for not condemning it enough.

Just my rant about needless deaths

[Irish_Dem]

1. The universities need to deal with this as well.

I once worked in a college counseling center, and as the junior clinician, had the job of calling the parents of boys in a frat who were taken to the hospital for alcohol poisoning, often in serious condition.

It made me so angry I could spit. I pleaded with the university to take action, but they sat on their hands and seemed to think "boys will be boys."

[Initech]

2. Students at my dad's former frat got kicked off campus after nearly burning their house down.

This shit is getting out of hand for sure!

[Historic NY]

3. Time to go after the perveyors of the booze, in the town where the colleges are...

Campus police or local police need to seize the kegs, the taps, the bottles etc...they are all assigned to specifics sales agents. Disrupt the sources.

[Chainfire]

4. The Frat boys are special. That kind of stuff happens to other people, not them.

The are too cool, too rich, too well dressed to get into trouble. Whenever they kill one of their own, the entire Fraternity should be banned from campuses permanently as well as holding all of those present criminally responsible for the deaths under the RICO laws. That would put the Kibosh on deadly hazing. When half of the Frat goes to prison on the RICO act, the rest of the Greeks on campus would get the message.

And then you have the ever-present, Spring Breakers, coming up with creative ways to end their young lives, that would be a harder issue to handle.

[Jirel]

5. Frat boys.

Generally good only for psychopathic business management or politics, and raping women. They’re better off as compost - at least that’s useful. I’ll just give it a golf clap.

[Progressive Jones]

6. That whole scene is a joke. Dinosaurs. Let it die. nt

[Hoyt]

7. Proud to say I totally avoided that scene when going to school.

[AngryOldDem]

8. So did I.

I had to earn my own way through school and didn’t have time for that bullshit between working and going to class.

[PJMcK]

10. Yep

What a waste.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Same Here

I knew them. Didn't like them. I couldn't understand why I'd want to be a member of a group of people I'd never want to hang with.
Funny thing on frats: the school allowed frats to have 2 nonmembers on their basketball team for campus tournaments.
I had 5 frats ask me all 3 years I was there. I played with the frat that had the least objectionable people. Never went to the after game parties, though.

[Hoyt]

11. I used to love it when a professor changed exams from the

ones in the fraternity files. You’d hear half the class groan when they realized they studied the wrong stuff.

Remember when I first got on campus and walked down fraternity row. Had never seen so many drunks and large confederate flags hanging from the the front porch columns (this was a few years after Civil Rights Act). Knew it wasn’t for me.

That good ole boy network did work for a lot of folks, though.