[Kevin]

This chapter should be shut down for hazing. That's an easy one. They forced their pledges to do things, which in Ruiz' case, profoundly affected his health and could have even resulted in pneumonia or death. Funny how folks want to fixate on the discrimination thing when there were apparently a group of pledges who were subjected to some pretty bad physical hazing, which is not only probably against the student code of conduct, but also probably criminal.

The discrimination? Reading the article, sure, he had to check a box, and he lied. That does go to character, and would be grounds in my mind for termination, but that's not apparently what happened. Ruiz dropped voluntarily because he was being hazed, and by his own admission, not because he was bisexual and being discriminated against.

As far as the actual incident, it's not even clear from the article that members of the fraternity were the ones harassing him. He was apparently on stage and was harassed by members of the audience. I don't really see how it goes to the fraternity, except that it's obvious that the student body had a general awareness that this kid was bisexual and some chose to express that awareness in a generally immature manner. The article does a terrible job describing who was in the audience. The culpability of the organization turns on that. And frankly, if that was the extent of this so-called bullying, this seems to be much ado about nothing, and a huge overreaction, most likely precipitated by recent events and increased public awareness about bullying of LGBT folks.

And if these weren't members of the fraternity who did this, I can see in a roundabout way how someone, especially a not-very-bright kid, might rationalize that the fraternity was being punished because of Ruiz' sexual orientation.

At any rate, the hazing charges here are MUCH more serious than the discrimination allegations. The fraternity is obviously culpable, and obviously should be closed. The article is unclear as to the fraternity's involvement in this discrimination, so condemning them seems a tad premature.