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<p>I disagree. Because the fraternity is a university institution, the university has in away tacitly endorsed the fraternity and its usual practices. Everybody knows that drinking rituals occur at most of fraternities. Not only that, I remember at my own school, the administrators made quite an effort to sell the fraternities to the students and their parents. I suspected this is because they didn’t want to spend the money to build more dorms. Then when a pledge died in a drinking ritual, they expressed astonishment that there was underage drinking going on.</p>
<p>There’s another wrinkle here. The fact that this was a pledge and not a brother dying is meaningful. The pledge is a subordinate in the fraternity, and his membership depends on participating in the hazing.</p>
<p>Frankly, I have more sympathy for the frat members than I do the administration who no doubt ignored this type of activity in the past.</p>