Many of you heard about the utter stupidity of some errant PKA's in Tulane. Tulane Pikes won't be charged for pouring boiling water and seafood seasoning on pledges to "crab boil" them, putting off taking them to the hospital and then trying to cover it up by intimidation and pleas. (Of course it pales in comparison to say, hiring hoods you knew of from high school to pistol whip, strip and dump a fraternity brother. What's GOING ON Hofstra???)
We can only hope these douchebags get hit by a bus or angry lawyer.
We see far too many fraternities and sororities where nothing constructive happens and fraternities are just a waste of time outside of entertainment and an ungrounded sense of belonging to something.
Fraternities and sororities too often do not live up to their well worn platitudes and lofty, nebulous phrases-- and pursue little to benefit their members that would have not been accomplished if the efforts were placed elsewhere; and thus these organizations become mere things of college.
Who is responsible? The members who having the great opportunity of fraternal life waste it doing harm and then waste it again by doing too little good. Let these idiots serve as a reminder...
Tulane frat members won't be charged in hazing incident
Orleans Parish prosecutors refused to charge ten members of a Tulane University fraternity arrested this spring in what police called a hazing that included the pouring of crab-boil and boiling water on two pledges.
A preliminary hearing had been scheduled today in the Magistrate section of Orleans Parish Criminal District Court. Instead, the district attorney's office announced it would seek no charges against the men, all originally booked with aggravated second-degree battery.
The ten men booked were: Jeremy Bendat, 22, of Los Angeles; William Dougherty, 20 of Voorhees, N.J.; Kevin Dunn, 20, of Bellmore, N.Y.; Preston Gelman, 20; Randall Graham, 20, of Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich.; Danny Lazzeri, 20, of Scottsdale, Ariz.; Joseph Lorono, 20, of Rye, N.Y.; Nicholas Maddern, 22, of South Hamilton, Mass.; Oded Nissim, 20; and Joseph Stevens, 23.
They were arrested May 6 days after an hours-long hazing either at or near the fraternity house on Broadway Street, late night April 25 or the pre-dawn hours April 26, sources familiar with the investigation said.
A personal injury lawsuit was filed in federal court May 16 by Matthew Martin against Pi Kappa Alpha Corporation and a dozen individual men - including all ten who were arrested. Martin said that the fraternity members burned him during "Hell Night" and then urged him to downplay his injuries so as not to get the house into trouble.
In addition to the ten arrested students, the lawsuit accuses Lee Rudin, of New Brunswick, N.J., and Craig Rudikoff, of Chevy Chase, Md., of participating in the "Hell Night."
(Read the full story if you must.)-Not for Four Years
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