The update is so disappointing.
It goes against everything I thought I knew about Carleton - I cannot read why 12/13 sanctions got lifted but it makes no sense, it only serves in empowering the perpetrators and any followers they might want to keep.
How can further secret societies be stopped - and how can adcoms “screen out” kids likely to form them?
BTW, I get the appeal of secret societies, as a 10 year old I created one, but I’m guessing it wasnt all that secret despite its super clever morse-like secret language and super hidden secret places (bathrooms, yard corners, hedges you crawled through). That “just us, on an adventure” feeling must be universal. It is, also quite different from the hazing described. So, is there a way for benevolent, ‘secret’ (aka discreetly monitored) societies to exist without the students knowing, with immediate stamping put of anything remotely sadistic or humiliating?