college suicide
?????????? high school athlete gal good in basketball went to college and joined a sorority...took a bunch of hazing (which is BS behaviour) and killed herself...so now parents are sueing the sorority big time ...guess what color this picture is >>>>> NOW..why did she NOT simply leave the sorority and go about life....????????...i pledged a frat my first college year and thought the interfrat rivalry was stupid and childish so i simply walked away and went on about school .....
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quote:Originally posted by spasmcreek
?????????? high school athlete gal good in basketball went to college and joined a sorority...took a bunch of hazing (which is BS behaviour) and killed herself...so now parents are sueing the sorority big time ...guess what color this picture is >>>>> NOW..why did she NOT simply leave the sorority and go about life....????????...i pledged a frat my first college year and thought the interfrat rivalry was stupid and childish so i simply walked away and went on about school .....
Peer pressure. That's the answer to your question, it goes to show that young adults of today have no mind of their own...0 -
Weak person IMO.
There are reasons to self delete but being hazed isn't one of them. I would say I went through some of the worst hazing when I was in the Army.
Anyone who was in a Ranger Bn in the 80's can tell you about the SP4 Mafia.....it was brutal. Quiters quit....................stayers stay and drive on.0 -
There was a weekend hazing when I joined a fraternity, but it was all fairly benign and almost all of it was good natured.
There was one event in which I did not participate, along with a few others.
If my not participating would have cost me membership, I would not have become a member. The next year that event was dropped.
Stand up for yourself in the moment. Sad that this young lady did not have the courage to do so.
Hazing done properly brings the group together. Some of the crap you hear about today is simply disgusting, and while the frat or sorority should not be doing it, the pledges ought to simply tell them to go to hell.0 -
i figure the parents while justly agrieved can take advantage of the politically correct venues currently in vogue and reap a windfall... 0 -
I pledged the first semester of my freshman year (Sigma Phi Epsilon) went active and had a great 4 year college career. 0 -
Our family is dealing with a friend, whose 13 year old was texting a girl. For some yet unknown reason, he took his dad's Winchester Rifle in 44 Mag and put it under his chin an pulled the trigger. He could, not get the gun all the way back against his neck so it was tipped slightly forward. Bullet exited at the bridge of his nose, taking jaws and nose. He survived but will have extensive surgeries. His brain, eyes, and ears are intact and is completely cognitive. His 15 and 20 year old brothers came home and found him crawling across to the neighbors to get help. Happened the Friday after Christmas. The doctors and police are taking things very slowly for the family. Your prayers are appreciated. I am praying for the above girl and her parents! People that due such things are mentally ill. Please pray for anyone thinking about such a horrible thing! 0 -
I pledged my Sophomore year, they didn't allow freshman to pledge during their first semester. My grades went to a 2.0 that semester, and i was impaired a good majority of the time, sleep deprived from being everyone's beotch running errands etc. Likely had alcohol poisoning, once maybe twice....I'm surprised more bad stuff doesn't end up happening, but most of the time we survive it!! 0 -
Each day 22 US vets commit suicide. For families of these poor souls anything is possible in trying to deal with "why". 0 -
After 4 years in in the Marine Corps, I had zero interest in paying a bunch of 19 year old dickwads to be my friend. 0 -
Good thing she wasn't there on a shooting scholarship it might've ended up quite differently. 0 -
also my first year of college the most serious students were those who had been in the military...... 0 -
My first year I became affiliated with a group that many referred to by as a fraternity. It was, however, started in the early 70's to be an "anti-fraternity" type operation, if there is such a thing. The standards were in direct opposition to the accepted hazings, etc normally associated with such groups. That being said, there was a 21 week entry program, run once a year, that not only required grades to be maintained, but also included a rigorous PT program and other team building activities none of us had experienced before. We, at the time, didn't initially grasp the purpose of the entire group learning to go everywhere carrying a large log as a team, group runs in the deep sand of orange groves, group PT morning and evening and other activities requiring 100% group participation. Those who finished were, without a doubt, in the best shape of our lives. During the 21 week period some dropped out, some rose to the top, but everyone learned to truly work as a team looking out for each other and accomplishing any tasks put before us. We really didn't understand the vague background, nor was it offered, of the tough little vet running the program, but damnit, we learned what teamwork was really about. To this day, every two years, (For me it's been nearly 40 since I became affiliated.)our group is still a tight as "back in the day", stays in regular contact and gets together for reunions and to remember those we have lost over the years. I'll wager not many traditional fraternities can make the same claim.
I gotta say, the life lessons we learned from that tough little quy and his program will stay with me forever.0
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