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[quote=Anonymous][quote]  It wouldn’t really make sense for the to be a hazing incident during sophomore summer when only sophomores are on campus. Everyone is the same year and so there’s no one older to be hazing the the sophomores.  [/quote]

Agree.  Based on the available data, this sounds like a tragic instance of substance abuse.  Whether or not that occurs more frequently at Dartmouth or rural schools or schools with a Greek culture is a reasonable and appropriate question to ask.  But hazing isn't just alcohol consumption -- it involves coercion, and humiliation and abuse, and often rites of initiation (that's not the implication - that's the definition), and it's hard to imagine that happening among the all-sophomore student body at Dartmouth for sophomore summer.   There's a lazy and misleading tendency among some DCUMers to use the term "hazing" as a synonym for drinking at a fraternity.   And the triumphal "these two hazing incidents (sic) prove I was right about Dartmouth all along!" comments about fatal incidents about which the posters know virtually nothing are both embarrassing and distasteful.

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