Fraternities’ Deadly Hazing

It’s easy to become enraged by the seemingly animalistic hazing rituals of college fraternities (“House of Horrors,” Post-Script, Pamela Gwyn Kripke, Sept. 24).

These activities usually take place at well-heeled, rather elitist institutions, where ugly incidents get buried.

The rituals are so ridiculous that you have to wonder why anyone would participate.

I guess the need to belong supersedes any sense of individuality or judgment. Conformity is more important than morality. Brad Gillespie Webster

It’s tragic that frat boys are not being charged with felonies when students die during rituals.

When my daughter was a freshman at the University of Connecticut, she was drinking in a dorm room with her girlfriends and others — including a young man who was later convicted of a drunkdriving incident that resulted in the death of a freshman. It was a night of college partying that ended in an unfortunate accident.

Two young adults spent time in prison. Many others were punished by either the courts or UConn.

Yet the Penn State frat members who were involved in Tim Piazza’s death face only misdemeanor charges when they spent hours planning a ritual that resulted in a very preventable death.

It seems unfair, and it’s why fraternities should have a zero-tolerance policy on hazing. If a frat violates the policy, its officers should be booted.