[x1stcav]

Sounds like the Greek system ahsn’t changed much in the fifty-plus years since I was in it.

[IrishBrigade]

‘leaders at the university were well aware of pervasive misbehavior in the Greek system and failed to take action.’

meh...the football team’s been hot lately; is there anything else to consider...

[chajin]

One of the reasons I avoided the frats when I was there 45 years ago.

[niteowl77]

A relative of mine was rushed years ago, and at one point in the hazing, he decided that things were "getting a little bit faggy." One word led to another and he ended up decking one of the at least one of the Greeks in the resulting fracas.

A few years later, I had a streak of luck that put me into the top 10% of my college and a casual acquaintance tried to get me into his frat. I politely informed him that I was definitely not the kind of material they were looking for, then he replied that I could still help them get their GPA up. At that point I felt a bit like repeating the family propensity for knocking someone from the Greek system on their ass.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Hazing is "rampant and pervasive" and includes "sadistic" rituals that "surge to unfathomabl[e] peaks of depravity,"

How else are they supposed to mold future politicians? :)

[TallahasseeConservative]

Hazing is “rampant and pervasive” and includes “sadistic” rituals that “surge to unfathomabl[e] peaks of depravity,” the report says. Penn State fraternities require excessive drinking to the point of being life-threatening or demand that pledges exercise to the point of exhaustion on floors covered in vomit, bleach or broken glass, according to the report. Some hazing rituals allegedly involved pledges being forced to drink concoctions designed to make them ill or required pledges to kill and skin animals.

All of which these pledges did willingly and voluntarily. All you have to do is say, “To hell with this, I’m out”.