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Judi Lynn

(160,588 posts) Sun Feb 16, 2014, 12:04 AM Feb 2014

Hazing Death of Baruch Fraternity Pledge Declared a Homicide

Source: ABC News

Hazing Death of Baruch Fraternity Pledge Declared a Homicide
Feb. 15, 2014
By LIZ FIELDS and GILLIAN MOHNEY

The death of a New York college freshman who suffered fatal head trauma during a hazing ritual has been declared a homicide, according to the coroner's office.

The Luzerne County, Pa., Coroner's office said Chun "Michael" Deng, 19, died from head injuries due to blunt force trauma and declared his death as a homicide on Friday.

A Pennsylvania District Attorney's office has announced it expects to file criminal charges in the Baruch College freshman's death.

Monroe County District Attorney David Christine told ABC station WABC-TV in New York that the exact charges will not be determined until a police investigation into Deng's death is concluded. It is not clear how many students allegedly involved in the hazing death will be charged.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/hazing-death-baruch-fraternity-pledge-declared-homicide/story?id=22535458

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Hazing Death of Baruch Fraternity Pledge Declared a Homicide (Original Post) Judi Lynn Feb 2014 OP

Do like Chico State did and shut down all the Frats. mackerel Feb 2014 #1

I fail to see why universities continue to ignore the issue tomm2thumbs Feb 2014 #2

Not surprised with the Fraternity. Pi Psis are Psichos. Nanjing to Seoul Feb 2014 #3

These frats are the proving grounds for Republican politicians. Scuba Feb 2014 #4

I don't understand hazing Srkdqltr Feb 2014 #5

Our sorority at a national level was strictly anti hazing Nikia Feb 2014 #6

mackerel

(4,412 posts)

1. Do like Chico State did and shut down all the Frats.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sun Feb 16, 2014, 12:23 AM

Feb 2014

Smartest move they ever made and they've cut down on lawsuits too.

tomm2thumbs

(13,297 posts)

2. I fail to see why universities continue to ignore the issue

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sun Feb 16, 2014, 01:39 AM

Feb 2014

One fraternity in my school had 100% rate of injured pledges, from bruises and burns, to broken arms, etc and it finally took one pledge with a bruise on the brain (and wealthy & persistent parents) to finally get action taken.

Seriously?

Sickening how entrenched the culture is that it accepts this activity as normal and turns a blind eye to the fact it goes on... until a death or major injury occurs and then they blame a few rogue players vs. their own tacit acceptance of what they know is happening behind the scenes. Reminds me of what goes on in the Church with molestation. Everyone pretends it isn't an issue, until someone gets caught in a public way.

Nanjing to Seoul

(2,088 posts)

3. Not surprised with the Fraternity. Pi Psis are Psichos.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sun Feb 16, 2014, 03:04 AM

Feb 2014

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

4. These frats are the proving grounds for Republican politicians.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sun Feb 16, 2014, 09:41 AM

Feb 2014

Shut 'em down.

Srkdqltr

(6,307 posts)

5. I don't understand hazing

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sun Feb 16, 2014, 01:49 PM

Feb 2014

I don't see how someones death due to hazing is not a homicide.
I don't understand how "rituals" that include actions that cause fatal head trauma can be allowed.
A lot of the hazing we hear about include sexual components and beatings. There are a lot of groups who practice hazing and I just don't understand the mentality of hurting people like that they are really sick.

Nikia

(11,411 posts)

6. Our sorority at a national level was strictly anti hazing

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sun Feb 16, 2014, 04:25 PM

Feb 2014

It was my pledge year that they enacted this. Over the next few years, we were informed that some of our activities needed to be discontinued because they were in fact hazing. They weren't anything like this incident that put anyone in danger. It was more like stuff that could be seen as "degrading" even if it were "an optional" activity.

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