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Bowling Green State University student, 20, is in critical condition after 'downing 40 SHOTS in Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity pledge hazing ritual
UK Daily Mail ^ | March 7, 2021 | Valerie Edwards

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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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: alcohol; college; education; fraternity; hazing; wod
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To: C19fan

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.


21 posted on 03/08/2021 5:32:19 AM PST by RouxStir (No peein' in the gene pool.)
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To: C19fan

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.


22 posted on 03/08/2021 5:34:08 AM PST by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of incurable hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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To: I want the USA back

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


23 posted on 03/08/2021 5:35:58 AM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: AppyPappy

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...)


24 posted on 03/08/2021 5:47:39 AM PST by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: C19fan

Donating his organs? What good are they going to be after this?


26 posted on 03/08/2021 5:55:59 AM PST by real saxophonist (The current symbol of slavery is not the noose. It is the mask.)
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To: All
after an 'alleged hazing activity involving alcohol consumption'

likely meaning “a party”. This article means to imply that a kid was forced to drink 40 shots of alcohol. More likely alcohol WAS there and the kid was trying to impress people. I’m suspicious at how the media frames these sorts of things. They seem to be wording it kind of carefully.
27 posted on 03/08/2021 5:58:30 AM PST by mmichaels1970
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To: C19fan

Darwin Award candidate.


28 posted on 03/08/2021 6:06:49 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: AppyPappy

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.


29 posted on 03/08/2021 6:11:45 AM PST by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: Levy78
Those who ‘made’ him do this should be charged with manslaughter, maybe something more

If somebody in fact, MADE him do it, I agree. I’m suspicious that this is the conclusion the media is trying to get us to draw. More likely to me was that the kid was at a post-hazing party where alcohol was present and he chose to drink it himself. I could be wrong, but as BGSU is in my back yard, I’ll be following the facts as they come out.

I’m very leery in a society that is eager to create victims and shirk personal responsibility.
30 posted on 03/08/2021 6:16:40 AM PST by mmichaels1970
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To: C19fan
I'm one who can hold my liquor pretty well but I draw the line at shots. That is almost always bad news. When I was out drinking with friends, I always knew it was time to leave when the shots started happening.

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.

31 posted on 03/08/2021 6:18:17 AM PST by SamAdams76 (By stealing Trump's second term, the Left gets Trump for 8 more years instead of just four.)
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To: C19fan

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


32 posted on 03/08/2021 6:18:21 AM PST by setter
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To: Hot Tabasco

A friend of my wife’s lost her son to this. She now goes around the country discussing it on college campuses.


33 posted on 03/08/2021 6:24:59 AM PST by SJSAMPLE
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To: SamAdams76
I'm one who can hold my liquor pretty well but I draw the line at shots. That is almost always bad news. When I was out drinking with friends, I always knew it was time to leave when the shots started happening.

Me too! You’re dead-on. When my kids started drinking I told them: One day you will swear off hard liquor. You can do it right now and save yourself a lot of trouble and misery. Or you can learn the hard way. You have MY blood running through your veins so I can promise you, you CANT handle hard liquor. Hard liquor is the devil. Stay away from it.
34 posted on 03/08/2021 6:32:54 AM PST by mmichaels1970
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To: C19fan

College isn’t a place anyone should die. Sad that education isn’t.


35 posted on 03/08/2021 6:35:40 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: CodeToad

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.


36 posted on 03/08/2021 6:52:35 AM PST by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: fwdude
He was 20, and an adult making decisions.

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!"

37 posted on 03/08/2021 6:52:48 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: C19fan

Poor kid. If it would have been bong hits, he’d still be alive.


38 posted on 03/08/2021 7:36:56 AM PST by dainbramaged (Windage and Elevation)
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To: C19fan
No. It is the members involved in the incident, who may be only a few, and quite possibly none of the officers, who are partially to blame. But the main portion of blame is on the candidate who had not the character to simply say "No!" when subjected to pressure and walk away.

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.

39 posted on 03/08/2021 7:58:30 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: real saxophonist

Donating his organs? What good are they going to be after this?
= = =

Well Preserved.


40 posted on 03/08/2021 8:07:08 AM PST by Scrambler Bob (This is not /s. It is just as viable as any MSM 'information', maybe more so!)
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