As a frequent poster of hazing stories (easily found with a Google news search for "hazing" or "frat"), I hope that publicizing some of the serious cases will help eliminate hazing, and the horrible problems and horrible publicity it produces.
We can do a million public service projects, and collect a million cans of food for the needy, and dance forever for charity at Penn State, but one dead pledge at Chi Psi at Colorado (or at Chi Tau at Chico) trumps every good thing we do.
Maybe we can claim a little victory this school year, as I've seen no case of a GLO in trouble for "blackface". Did the widely publicized (on GC) cases two prior years get the word out? Probably.
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