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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Something isn’t right on this campus.  I’m sure binge drinking and frat hazing are happening across the nation, yet time and time again when something happens at PSU -- the immediate reaction is circle the wagons/protect ourselves, screw everyone else.  The administration did it with Paterno; now these students are doing it.  There’s something about the insular “We Are” culture of that place that breeds this kind of attitude.

The presentment was horrendous to read.  His injuries were so severe – a shattered spleen where 80% of his blood pooled bc he didn’t receive any care for 12+ hours; 5-6 falls including 2 down full staircases with brain injuries so severe that the signals to breathe weren’t being sent properly through his body.  And his poor parents now know that doctors believe these injuries must have been very painful for him for 12 hrs in his semi conscious state.

Bunch of idiots at that school.  Seriously these aren’t little boys – these were all young men age 18+, many of whom sat around googling head injuries/concussions – so they knew something was truly wrong.  If there is some decision by the older guys in the frat that 911 would not be called – there wasn’t 1 guy in that group willing to say “f— you” and call anyway? Or not say anything, go outside and make a quick call? Or anonymously call this kid’s roommate or RA and say – come get him, he’s in deep trouble but we can’t help but you have to come, it’s life or death!?  [b]One pledge brother was the one who insisted that there may be a head injury and the older brothers shoved him in the wall and told him to shut up; that kid is now doing the media circuit – saw him on GMA.  [/b]He really couldn’t have stepped outside with a phone – his place in the frat was THAT important??[/quote]

It pisses me off that the kid who wanted to call 911 and was told not to, and did NOT call 911, is not being charged with anything and in the bargain is on the media circuit.  He DID NOT DO THE RIGHT THING.  He failed to act at a critical moment because he chose his "brothers" over a dying man.

WTF

No amount of community service and philanthropy can ever suffice to compensate for the deaths that occur every single year thanks to Greek hazing (and never mind the injuries, sexual assault, the list goes on).

I am just stunned by this.[/quote]

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