It all seems like fun and games until someone dies and you get charged with manslaughter. Yesterday, a Grand Jury charged 18 members of Penn State's Beta Theta Pi fraternity with the hazing death of Timothy Piazza...including eight members with involuntary manslaughter. The report from the National Study of Student Hazing, Hazing in View: Students at Risk, by Dr. Elizabeth Allan and Dr. Mary Madden showed how common hazing is on college campuses with more than half of college students being involved in some form of hazing but 95% not reporting it. Since 1970, at least one college hazing-related death has occurred each year with 82% percent involving alcohol. The study also found that over 70% of fraternity and sorority members experienced hazing (Interestingly, 20% to 30% of Academic or Honors Society members also underwent hazing.)

Source: Forbes May 06, 2017 19:30 UTC