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Frat Brothers Scrawled Slurs On Dying Pledge (Why Fraternities Should Be Banned)
Denver Post ^ | October 08, 2004 | Any Herdy and George Merritt

Posted on 10/08/2004 2:46:06 PM PDT by O.C. - Old Cracker

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Lanahan said he hopes the fraternity will release the results of its investigation into his son's death. So far, Chi Psi has said it will not release the records.

How can these punks keep their crime a secret?

1 posted on 10/08/2004 2:46:06 PM PDT by O.C. - Old Cracker
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
(Why Fraternities Should Be Banned)

That's idiotic. I suppose you think guns should be banned because some people use them in crime, or that prisons should be banned because states like Soviet Russia or Ba'athist Iraq used them for political torture. Why not ban gas ovens because the SS used them to dispose of eleven million victims?

2 posted on 10/08/2004 2:50:36 PM PDT by Petronski (KERRY'S GLOBAL TEST: Pleasing those who were bribed by Saddam.)
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker

A must read for every new college student bump!


3 posted on 10/08/2004 2:50:58 PM PDT by MadelineZapeezda
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
Since he was passed out with his shoes on, tradition called for other fraternity members to draw on Bailey with a felt-tipped marker.

OK sounds like a kewl tradition. But next time check for breathing...

4 posted on 10/08/2004 2:51:10 PM PDT by Drango (NPR-When government funds a "news" outlet that has a bias...it's no longer news...it's propaganda.)
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker

I blame South Park, who in turn blames Canada.


5 posted on 10/08/2004 2:51:42 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker

The best friends I have are my old fraternity brothers. I'm a proud alumni. They're not all this bad.


6 posted on 10/08/2004 2:52:46 PM PDT by Rocky Mountain High
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
(Why Fraternities Should Be Banned)

Bows and toes, O.C., you dumb pledge!

7 posted on 10/08/2004 2:53:08 PM PDT by Texas_Dawg
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker

It's a tragedy but the story doesn't say that the frat members forcibly poured the alcohol down the pledge's throat. It says that they told him to drink the alcohol and he complied. He could have said no.


8 posted on 10/08/2004 2:53:13 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker

Another good argument for the Draft. Many of these punks would get a better education at this time in their lives by serving in the military.


9 posted on 10/08/2004 2:53:23 PM PDT by leadpenny
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
Moral of the story: Never be the first guy to pass out. Getting written on is the LEAST of your worries. ;-)

/Wormwood (who has been both the tagger and the taggee in my younger, drunker days.)

10 posted on 10/08/2004 2:53:26 PM PDT by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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That is so vile. And that the University is complicit and will not release records -- they should be sued, big time.


11 posted on 10/08/2004 2:53:38 PM PDT by bboop
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they should be sued, big time.

Senator Edwards, is that you?
12 posted on 10/08/2004 2:55:32 PM PDT by jimbo123
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Fraternities are simply gangs who drink and dress nice.

No, there should be criminal charges filed against those involved in this boy's death, as well as against those adults in charge of this fraternity.

Texas criminalized certain kinds of hazing (all kinds involving alcohol), and, voila, we've had none of these deaths in the last two years.

13 posted on 10/08/2004 2:55:37 PM PDT by sinkspur ("I exist in the fevered swamps of traditional arcana. "--Cardinal Fanfani)
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On the evening of Sept. 16, Gordie Bailey and 26 other Chi Psi pledges were blindfolded and left in the woods near Gold Hill. They were told to drink vast amounts of Ten High whiskey and Carlo Rossi wine, according to police.

Even as a hugely ignorant teenager, I knew not to drink "vast amounts" of anything. Sometimes Darwin works.

Plus, if they were "left in the woods," they could have easily poured out all the rotgut and claimed to have drunk it, and no one could have proven them wrong.
14 posted on 10/08/2004 2:55:41 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
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So has Gordie Bailey's family, who called the writing on the teenager "appalling" and says it depicts the fraternity members' irresponsible mind-set.

Boy, they would have HATED what happened at the slumber parties I went to.
15 posted on 10/08/2004 2:56:28 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
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It's a tragedy but the story doesn't say that the frat members forcibly poured the alcohol down the pledge's throat. It says that they told him to drink the alcohol and he complied. He could have said no.

Then he wouldn't be in the fraternity, would he?

Criminalize hazing. That'll put a stop to it.

16 posted on 10/08/2004 2:56:47 PM PDT by sinkspur ("I exist in the fevered swamps of traditional arcana. "--Cardinal Fanfani)
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"To do something like that exposes those young men for what they are - thoughtless and perverse," said attorney David Berg of Berg & Androphy, a Houston-based firm.

AMBULANCE CHASER ALERT. This Berg character is partners with Joel Androphy, who ranks right up there with Dick DeGuerin and Jim Adler in sleaze factor.
17 posted on 10/08/2004 2:57:25 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Lord, I apologize . . . and be with the starving pygmies in New Guinea amen.)
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"No parent should have to deal with losing a son to a senseless accident like this,"

ACCIDENT???
Hazing is no accident, the dangers involved are known. To go ahead with hazings that involve massive alcohol consumption is deliberate and no accident.


18 posted on 10/08/2004 2:57:27 PM PDT by antceecee (God Bless President Bush. FOUR MORE YEARS!)
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" They were told to drink vast amounts of Ten High whiskey and Carlo Rossi wine, according to police. "

So, I guess if they were told to drink Drano....they would have gulped it down. He was not forced to drink....he did so willingly & stupidly. Sadly, many kids die like this, but it is their own fault.

19 posted on 10/08/2004 2:57:30 PM PDT by Feiny (The use of intoxicants is one of the distinguishing marks of the higher types and races of humanity.)
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Banning fraternities? I don't think so.

This was deplorable. The offenders should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.


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20 posted on 10/08/2004 2:57:48 PM PDT by rdb3 (How much are the Muslims paying Pat Buchanan?)
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