Well,
I don't know if there is a law out there allowing colleges to walk into fraternity and sorority houses and just take away their bars and physical property, but this is not a situation that hasn't happened once before. I'm not looking to bring up some dark history of another, but on February 12, 1988, James Callahan, an 18-year-old Rutgers University student, died after consuming 24 ounces of hard liquor in less than an hour as part of a pledging ritual at the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. This incident prompted a five-year shutdown of the fraternity as well as another interesting result. The university went to each fraternity house and ripped down all the bars in their basements with sledgehammers and whatever else as a symbolic way of saying to the community that this will not be tolerated. Of course years later the bars are back and almost no one recalls the death of the student and what happened. The university took action for attention, which is what I think is going on here. They want to show off how much they can control their students since they are a private college. Anyone else have a better explanation?
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