A Victim of Hazing
It appears that Utah State University will be making significant changes in it policies and enforcement of rules in order to protect freshmen from the hazards of hazing and binge drinking at the school’s Greek letter fraternity houses.
The family of a freshman who died of alcohol poisoning at a party staged in his honor during initiation week has settled its lawsuit against the university based on claims that the school failed to exercise meaningful oversight over its fraternities.
Although the “animal house” mentality which leads to abuses and to sometimes dangerous initiation rites has long been recognized as having no place in our institutions of higher learning, one suspects that this sort of activity continues to take place.
It is important that the colleges adopt strong rules to send this message to their students. Some years ago when my son was a student there, Colby College in Waterville took the extreme step of abolishing fraternities. That may seem like going a bit too far, but if that is what it takes to protect its students, then so be it.
Sometimes it takes a law suit to wake up a university administration.
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