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That's the entire point of my post. If we are letting these things on television, number one: we are downgrading all of our founder's ideals, thoughts and missions.
I did my masters thesis on hazing and first we must stop the negative PR to our groups, so no....the INTENT of the program was not fraternity bashing, but in turn in did. Of course the lay man would think, "this is what fraternities do, I'm not letting my son do that" I did watch the entire program, specifically for the fraternity part, being a professional in higher education it is of great interest to me.
Of course our number one mission should be to stop that, but portraying it on TV by a past undergraduate that is laughing about the experience is not any way to start the mission of reducing this behavior. I hope that DKE takes the opportunity to make sure that this doesn't happen at other chapters, and that all fraternities do that today (notice that his chapter was closed due to their stupidity). But, laughing about it and recounting the "good ole days" on television is not the first step in that process.
I'm not disagreeing with you that it was on tv, that the show was about the rites of passage, I'm saying that the DKE there did a terrible portrayal of fraternity men and their ritual today.
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