Chico State fraternity members sentenced after cutting down 32 trees at national

[PhilTau]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

Just... why?

They went into the woods all "ax-happy" and randomly started cutting down trees? Why is this even a thing?

The article says the trees where nailed together in the shape of an "M". Not going try to guess what this was about.

In the old days, to have a pledge rally - had to be a bonfire.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by PhilTau

The article says the trees where nailed together in the shape of an "M". Not going try to guess what this was about.

In the old days, to have a pledge rally - had to be a bonfire.

A bonfire is one thing. But 32 trees? And it seems that they left plenty of unused wooden pallets at the campsite - why not burn those?

And the M was created by nails in a tree:

One photo showed nails hammered into a cut down tree in the shape of the letter "M."

The pictures show the same. Still, it doesn't make what they did sound any better/worse.

I guess it also amazes me that the one guy willingly gave up the name of their fraternity to a stranger and openly advertised that they were performing an "initiation ceremony".