Tessa Ward

Penn State Hazing:

A 19 year old boy, Timothy Piazza, died after participating in a hazing ritual that was part of joining the fraternity, Beta Theta Pi. He was given an enormous amount of alcohol, enough to get him super drunk, then was forced to sprint around the fraternity house many times. Unfortunately, he fell 15 feet down a flight of stairs and then down another. His fraternity brothers didn't even call 911. They fought over what to do and forensic evidence now reveal that they were searching up what to do in their situation without alerting the authorities. He had suffered a ruptured spleen along with a severe head injury. He died a slow, painful death and died the next day. The fraternity then tried to cover it up by dressing him nice and cleaning up the alcohol. Security cameras, however, caught everything and now the fraternity is banned from Penn State and there is a total of 1000 charges against the members. 

I think that it is horrible that this was apart of joining this particular fraternity. First of all, it is illegal to drink before the age of 21, so basically the fraternity was requiring criminal activity. Some people may not see this as murder, but i do because the requirements made by the fraternity caused Timothy to die. And then sitting there and watching him die is "not just boys being boys, but demonstrating criminal activities."

cnn.com