I hope that the administrators are cleared and that they are able to seek some redress from being improperly charged and maybe tried.
(Of course, I'm assuming that they had no knowledge or participation in the fraternities unregistered event.)
Unless we want to go back to the days of college students being viewed as minors in the complete care of their universities despite in most cases these same students being over the legal age of majority (with of course alcohol purchase and/or consumption being the exception), its very difficult to see how in the world the administrators who supervise organizations can actually be considered guilty of committing crimes based on behavior they didn't engage in themselves and had no knowledge of.
It just seems crazy that they were indicted when there doesn't seem to be any evidence that the hazing would have been tolerated had they known of it or that they did know about it.
Do you really think we're better off treating college students like high school students in terms of university oversight of social events?
Doesn't this seem nuts?
I've got no problem with the charges against the people in the organization who were involved. But the administrator being held responsible isn't going to be a move in the right direction.
Last edited by UGAalum94; 08-04-2007 at 06:24 PM.
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