The Penn State hazing scandal is really exploding.

[Archae]

Despite the frantic efforts by the frat boys to cover up their crimes.

I mean, the dead guy was given 18 drinks, in an hour and a half?

What kind of asshole considers this to be a 'fun event?"

Video recovered, 10 more charged in Penn State frat death

(AP) - Newly recovered security camera footage from inside a Penn State fraternity house showed a pledge had been given at least 18 drinks in less than 90 minutes, investigators said Monday in announcing dozens of new charges related to the pledge’s death.

Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller charged 10 new defendants, reinstated charges against two people whose cases had been dropped and added counts against five who had previously been charged for actions surrounding the Feb. 4 death of Beta Theta Pi pledge Tim Piazza. One fraternity member is accused of deleting the video as police were seeking the footage.
Twenty-six people now face charges in the case.

Piazza, a 19-year-old engineering student from Lebanon, New Jersey, suffered a fractured skull, shattered spleen and other injuries, likely during a series of falls inside the house. He was estimated to have had a blood-alcohol level several times the legal limit for adult drivers.

The house’s security system captured many of the events the night Piazza was injured, footage that had already been played at a preliminary hearing for those charged previously. But until recently, that did not include the basement, where Piazza was found the next morning.

A court affidavit said one of the brothers, Braxton Becker, purposely deleted the basement footage two days after Piazza died but the FBI was able to recover it.

http://www.wbay.com/content/news/Video-recovered-10-more-charged-in-Penn-State-frat-death-457424953.html

[Not Ruth]

1. Is this the pedophile college?

[HughBeaumont]

2. Ped State.

Joe Pedterno thought his name and Ped State football was more important than turning in a serial child rapist on his staff who had been doing this for decades.

How they still have an athletics program, I'll never know.

[RhodeIslandOne]

18. Don't worry....

....I'm sure Fresno State is on probation for Pedo State's sins.

(Stolen from an old joke about UCLA committing violations and some small college being punished instead.)

[Irish_Dem]

3. Fraternities need to be phased out on all campuses..... nt

[Not Ruth]

4. It would have saved at least one life

[Irish_Dem]

5. Probably more than one nationwide. nt

[get the red out]

6. I have always wondered

Does their good really outweigh all the bad? Back in college I saw Sororities as bunches of rich girls who were like paper dolls cut from the same pattern. I never understood why they thought that was great. And one fraternity on campus flew the confederate flag, really messed up!

[Irish_Dem]

7. It is one thing for them to be silly, another for them to kill fellow students.

But yes I think they are ridiculous too.
And don't understand why publicly funded universities still allow them on campus.

[get the red out]

8. Agree

No one died that I recall when I was in school, but I am sure there were sexual assaults, girls would have just been blamed for it by drinking if they had come forward back then. Not anything to do with Frats, but I was stalked by an ex-boyfriend for almost a year and didn’t hear the word stalking for years, I assumed all his threats would just be he said-she said and dismissed as nothing. 1980s, I do NOT miss you!

[Irish_Dem]

9. Yes in the past if a girl had been drinking and was assaulted, prosecutors wouldn't go to trial.

There was a whole list of things that negated the assault in the minds of juries.

[get the red out]

10. I learned in Sociology Class

That in Kentucky at that time Rape couldn’t even be considered rape if the woman had been drinking. Brought me out of my sheltered naivety fast! She was the first true feminist I ever encountered though, and the class did a lot more than just fulfill a gen ed requirement in my case.

[Irish_Dem]

11. Yes some of the college professors were real eye openers.

We got the same talk from a guest lecturer (a prosecutor) in one of my political science classes.

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. They are STILL debating if marital rape is even a "thing"

"It's his wife, he can do what he wants" is common thinking around here.

[Irish_Dem]

23. I know, gets back to women as property, as things, not human. nt

[Initech]

12. Man WTF is wrong with frats?

I hope these fuckers get locked up and the key is thrown away.

[Willie Pep]

20. My uncle was going to join a frat.

But once he found out about all of the physically embarrassing hazing he would have to go through he decided not to join. His story soured me on frats even though I had friends who were frat members.

[DeminPennswoods]

14. Do you know why frats have houses and sororities

have to be housed in dorms in Pennsylvania? Because there's a law still on the books that if there are more than 18, iirc, and they live together in a house, it's considered a house of ill-repute to put it politely.

[Cal Carpenter]

15. U of Michigan greeks are having some problems this fall too

They've canceled all official fall social events pending investigations by the university, the police, and the inter-frat council. Parties, pledge-related stuff, line-ups and whatnot, all canceled.

I don't know if that's really stopping anything from happening what with off-campus housing and loopholes, but there have been so many kids going to the hospital for alcohol and other injuries, hazing incidents and sexual assaults being reported, etc.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

16. No one should die the way Tim Piazza did. The descriptions are haunting.

[Initech]

22. Yeah this is completely, totally fucked up!

[Merlot]

25. Agreed. I read the whole story and it filled me with such sadness and anger

He even tried to escape. Heartbreaking.

[RhodeIslandOne]

17. Maybe someone will death penalty the college like the football team should have gotten.

Pedo State is a blight on higher ed.

[WinkyDink]

19. Don't be illogical.

[forgotmylogin]

28. Hazing needs to be stopped.

Any Greek org that encourages or forces pledges to drink as part of the entrance ritual needs to be dissolved.

[WinkyDink]

21. THERE IS NO EXCUSE ANYWHERE. As a woman, I wonder. A LOT. BUT----As a Penn Stater, I also must ask:

What penalty would people like to see at THESE colleges/universities? Are people even AWARE of all these schools' hazing deaths??

LSU: http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/15/us/lsu-student-hazing-death/index.html

CLEMSON: https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2017/08/22/461965.htm

CORNELL: http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/confessions-of-an-ivy-league-frat-boy-inside-dartmouths-hazing-abuses-20120328

VIRGINIA STATE U: http://wavy.com/2015/02/12/plea-deals-reached-in-hazing-deaths-of-local-college-students/

BARUCH: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-hazing-death/four-plead-guilty-in-baruch-fraternity-hazing-death-idUSKCN18B140

LAFAYETTE: http://6abc.com/da-no-charges-in-lafayette-college-students-death/2432314/

FLORIDA A&M: http://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/post/florida-college-band-member-gets-4-years-hazing-death

GENERAL: https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/hazing-in-america/universities-take-aim-underground-fraternities-combat-hazing-n800866

HISTORICALLY: http://www.hanknuwer.com/hazing-deaths/

[Dawson Leery]

24. Terrible school.

There is clearly something horrifically wrong with Penn State.
Never send your kids there.

[Squinch]

26. From what I've read about the events of the night, there was a whole lot of depraved indifference

going on. It's completely chilling how callous these people were.

[benld74]

27. While in college the Frat I belonged was,,,

GDI’s

God Damned Independents !!!

[Phoenix61]

29. The whole Greek system needs to go away

How many young men have to die and how many young women have to be sexually assaulted before we say enough? There is no excuse for this.

[Tatiana]

30. The fact that not a single person in that house called 911 speaks to the culture there.

It is not only one of dysfunction but of depraved indifference. These people don't seem to care about their fellow human beings.