Posted on 01/30/2020 1:12:17 PM PST by C19fan
The parents of a Cornell freshman who was found dead at the bottom of a gorge after a hazing prank are suing the college and the fraternity he was joining the night he died.
Antonio Tsialas died in October last year after a night of brutal drinking and hazing with Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house in Ithaca, New York, at a 'Christmas in October' party.
His body was found in a gorge and he had high levels of alcohol in his system but his family's attorney says his cause of death was multiple blunt force trauma to the body. They do not know how he sustained it.
In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, his parents accuse the university of turning a blind eye to the school's hazing culture and they name many of the fraternity's members, claiming they did nothing to save their son's life.
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BTW, how come no one is making a big deal about
a fraternity plying someone under 21 with liquor??
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It will be interesting to hear the final outcome of
this situation.
This sounds hauntingly familiar to what happened at Clemson a few years ago.
The age for drinking alcohol in New York state is 21. This guy was 18-19. The fraternity in question knew a minor was being served alcohol. This is a clear liability situation. That fraternity house is going bankrupt and all the ones at Cornell are at risk of being decertified if an investigation shows they too serve alcohol to minors. Tough for them. This should not have happened.
I joined a fraternity in the early 1980’s.
While there was drinking, no one was forced, or even coerced. There were several brothers who never drank. Remember, the drinking age was 18 back then.
As for hazing, it was mild stuff - cleaning the house, cooking dinner for the brothers, etc. There were weekly pledge lines where we were lined up and quizzed about the history of the fraternity. Some brothers were dicks and would yell in your face, but there were no beatings, no paddlings.
The worst was Hell Week. The seven of us in the pledge class had to share a room in the house, so some of us slept on the floor. Again, it was mostly “slave labor” type stuff - yard work, cooking, cleaning the bath rooms. No big deal. While I won’t go into initiation, I will say that while it was emotional, there was no physical abuse.
sorry the guy died, but maybe these parents should have instilled more wisdom, raised him to not be stupid enough to think he needed to be in a frat at all - let alone go along with hazing, when inside he likely knew it was going to far.
I walked by it twice a day for three years, but I’m not sure. I think it was part of a retired hydroelectric plant
Indeed. Sorry the parents were found dead at the bottom of the gorge. I think that’s who were found dead. Hard to really tell.
“”cause of death was multiple blunt force trauma to the body. They do not know how he sustained it.””
Gee - maybe being dropped off one of the suspension bridges would cause that kind of trauma! I grew up there - I worked on that campus and walked many of those bridges...
This is similar, except for the gorge, to the other case from several years ago where the boy was found in the basement of the fraternity house. That was either NY or PA as I recall.
It doesn’t look like one of the suspension bridges or falls on the campus - looks more like any of the other falls in the Ithaca area...I can’t get to the link - ads interfering so I don’t know if it places the bridge or gorge...
Described as “off the beaten path” which would make it OFF the campus...Fall Creek Falls. Past the Jr. High and Sr. High schools in the city of Ithaca.
https://www.fingerlakes.com/parks/waterfalls/fall-creek-gorge-ithaca-falls
Presumably he had to drink like that to join the frat. It was illegal for him to drink or be served drinks at his age. Also, he died of multiple blunt force trauma and his body was found in a gourge. Was he taken to the gourge? Did he fall? Was he beaten to death? It doesn’t look so good for the frat.
If a 16 year old with mental illness is the one we should listen to regarding climate change, can’t a college student be responsible for his own actions?
You would think, but apparently I had to explain it to another poster.
That picture is of the falls that pour out of Beebe Lake on the campus. That is part of Fall Creek which has several falls leading up to the Ithaca Falls further down stream where the body was found. He could have fallen anywhere along the creek betwèen the falls.
Alcohol has been legal for many decades: when combined with marijuana, there’s no limit to undoing lives.
“Justin Bieber was arrested in Miami Beach early Thursday for DUI and told police he had been smoking marijuana and taken prescription medication.
Miami Beach Police confirmed the arrest on Twitter before releasing more details in a press conference. Local media reports said the pop star had just left a club on Lincoln Road when he was pulled over”.
Just ask Justin Bieber (above) or Robert Downey, Jr., whose father introduced his 8 year-old Robert Downey Jr. to a joint.
Anyone under 26 exposed to marijuana is going to suffer psychotic damage to the brain’s frontal lobes. (Especially today’s marijuana).
Like the deliberate transmission of the AIDS virus on an unsuspecting victim, trying to push burning “weed” on an unsophisticated America—stinks.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-06-11-9202220020-story.html
Which makes it no less harmful.
when combined with marijuana, there’s no limit to undoing lives.
When all by itself, there’s no limit to undoing lives.
Anyone under 26 exposed to marijuana is going to suffer psychotic damage to the brain’s frontal lobes. (Especially today’s marijuana).
ANYONE? I call BS. Links?
Like the deliberate transmission of the AIDS virus on an unsuspecting victim, trying to push burning “weed” on an unsophisticated America—stinks.
Your comparison is shrieking nonsense - nobody unsuspectingly smokes marijuana.
“Unsuspecting” is no synonym for unsophisticated.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190526135747.htm
Marijuana + Codeine:
https://abc13.com/houston-rapper-arrested-while-driving-with-a-gallon-of-lean/5892986/
If he were conscious and washed down the gorge, expect wounds consistent with a beating.
I went to ole miss and coulda been a pike but they wanted me to cut my hair...no way
However I didn’t like the sororities ....especially KD and Chi Omega
Nice pretty girls
I understand the parents anger and I understand some hazing as appropriate
Making folks over drink is a poor choice
Pour shite and Pee on them like 81 does and paddling or left naked in the woods at night
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