It is to bad this thread went the direction of discussing Frats and all. This thread is about ALCOHOL!
Drinking TO MUCH is What killed this dear man. Not Frats, not college. DRINKING TO MUCH KILLED HIM.
You all go hang out and watch someone go through detox after drinking all their lives. Go hang out at an AA meeting and listen to all the stories about all the ruined lives from alcohol. Some folks start and cannot stop. It is not a joke. It kills them.
Forget the stupid frat discussion.
Not a stupid discussion. Hazing is what killed this kid. The alcohol is a part of it. The frat boys instruct the pledges to completely consume the alcohol they are given. This is hazing.
This is not alcoholism - there have been cases of young people hurt by this kind of hazing who had never been drinkers in their pasts.
I know what alcoholism is, My grandfather was AA and when he passed away was sober for over 40 years! He was our role model not to drink to excess. There is a profound difference between this incidence and the problem of alcoholism.