Posted on 03/08/2021 4:00:23 AM PST by C19fan
A sophomore at Bowling Green State University was left in critical condition after he took 40 shots in an alleged hazing incident as a Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity pledge.
According to a statement from the university, Stone Foltz, 20, was hospitalized after an 'alleged hazing activity involving alcohol consumption' at a Pi Kappa Alpha event in Bowling Green, Ohio.
Officials said the event occurred off-campus last Thursday. Foltz was rushed to the ProMedica Toledo Hospital where he remains in critical condition as his family works the process of donating his organs, the family's lawyer, Sean Alto, told ABC News.
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He’s no longer critical...he’s now in the morgue and his parents have their attorney at hand. Poor kid.
When I was a teenager, a group of us was drinking at a camp-out. We had 151 rum. Someone dared a kinda crazy kid to chug a 24 oz cup of the rum. When he poured the cup and raised it to his lips, we all screamed for him not to chug it. He chugged it. Within minutes, he was vomitting with copious amounts of blood. We carried him out of the woods and called his mother (who was a nurse and was at work at the hospital) we brought him to the hospital...he survived....It still gives me chills when I see someone chugging alcohol.
He wasn’t forced to take the drinks. He did it to himself. There is no one else to blame, or sue. He suffered the consequences. Unfortunately, this will happen again and again as young kids off to college throw off the shackles of parental discipline and get blinding drunk and copulate like rabbits with their new-found freedom from mom and dad.
The attitude is favored by colleges because they want kids to reject any and all moral imperatives they learned from their parents, especially those ones that mention God, and to do anything they want like barnyard animals.
actually this is pretty common in colleges and universities.
I know some private schools used to have ambulances paid on standby during certain parties on campus
When I pledged my local fraternity in 1987 as a junior there was no alcohol involved in any on campus or off campus pledging activity until the party after Hell Night and the formal Initiation Ceremony the following evening. It was only then that the alcohol flowed at a rented room at a local bar (no fraternity houses at our college).
Drinking was voluntary and I was sober when I traded swats (with a paddle) with a young woman (Lil’ Sis associated with our fraternity) who lit up my behind. (Music major with the voice of an angel and arms like Babe Ruth...)
Donating his organs? What good are they going to be after this?
Darwin Award candidate.
We never allowed pledges to drink. Their pledging was not to have any intentional joy or fun. It was to serve the brothers and the Fraternity.
This is how most people die of alcohol poisoning. Keith Moon, John Bonham, Keith Whitley, to name a few music celebrities, all very experienced drinkers, who died after consuming multiple shots of alcohol in a short period of time.
Doesn't matter how experienced a drinker you are, consuming too many shots of hard alcohol in a short amount of time will kill you.
Freshman year at my fraternity I did way too many shots. Should have went to hospital. Just happened some HS friends found me passed out between the fraternity house and my dorm. I could not go to class for 4-5 days after and was still recovering for several weeks. I was probably within a shot or two of dying
A friend of my wife’s lost her son to this. She now goes around the country discussing it on college campuses.
College isn’t a place anyone should die. Sad that education isn’t.
My family just did a tour of BGSU last Monday for my son who has been accepted for the fall semester. Beautiful campus and their new Schmidthorst College of Business is amazing.
This is a sad article to read a week later.
I never understood the appeal of joining an organization that requires one to debase one's self in order to be a member. "So, I have to down 40 shots and then stick my penis into a light socket? I'm in!"
Poor kid. If it would have been bong hits, he’d still be alive.
There will be a proper investigation which will show whether or not this excess was of his own volition. It might be coming up to his own brag that fuelled his excess.
Hold the immediately responsible observers to account for this, not the organization owning the property, or chapter officers/members not engaged in this incident.
I became a member of ΠKA sixty-five years ago, and participated in drinking parties then, but at my own choice. I survived Hell Week, but in it was never asked (let alone forced) to engage in intoxication as a requirement for election to full membership.
Doubtless that kind of activity is nowadays forbidden in the national and local chapter policies, and subject to discipline through termination of association.
Donating his organs? What good are they going to be after this?
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Well Preserved.
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