[coloradan]

It’s a double standard. One set of rules for colleges and another for everywhere else, even if the age ranges of the clients are equal. Why are college students somehow inferior or less responsible than the general population? (I thought people who went to college were supposed to be role models for others, not deserving of contempt or patronization.)

[sam_paine]

Why are college students somehow inferior or less responsible than the general population?

I don't know. But they are. Hormonal imbalance?

Accused of a variety of abusive behaviors — including shocking prospective fraternity members with an electric cattle prod and burning the pledges with a hot clothes iron — three former members of a University of Texas fraternity were charged with misdemeanor hazing Friday, according to court documents. ... The charges stem from an investigation into the fraternity's activities during the 2006 semester when pledge Tyler Cross, 18, fell to his death off the balcony of an off-campus dormitory. ... ... Last year, three officers of UT's Lambda Phi Epsilon received probation after an investigation into the death of Phanta "Jack" Phoummarath, a freshman honors student from Houston who was found dead after an off-campus fraternity party Dec. 9, 2005.