re: Letter to the Reveille: LSU Greeks should have 'Day of disobedience on game day.'

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Hazing and especially alcohol involved hazing is just another form of peer pressure. If you remove greek from the situation, this would just be peer pressure.

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Usually hazing involving alcohol is restricted to organizations though, whether that be a frat, marching band, or sports team. Maybe these don't make the news, but you don't hear a lot of hazing incidents involving just a group of friends.

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Jeez, sounds like someone had a bad bid day.

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Well, I haven't been in college for 25 years, but I do recall having a great bid day. It was great because I was nowhere near any of it and had no interest in it. Nor do I condemn the whole Greek system....they can do their thing and I will do mine.

What is a real pisser is when one particular self-righteous a-hole writes a letter and bitches about his "civil liberties" being violated and calls for a "disobedience day". Right or wrong, that type of letter just perpetuates the stereotype of Greeks being douchey assholes who think they are above everything else.

What is unfortunate for the Greeks is that when they are in the news, it is for the wrong reasons. I think as a whole, Greek organizations would like to be anonymous and just go about their business every day like the rest of us. But when a kid dies at the hands of one of these groups, it is going to reflect poorly on all of them. There is just no way around it.

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Their constitutional rights were violated, too bad you don't give a shite

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What you fail to understand is that LSU isn't a state that passed a law.

So you are saying that every school, grade level and college, is legally required to endorse and sanction any and all clubs and organizations based on the first amendment?

Because if not, your point is invalid.

And when phrased that way, do you realize how fricking stupid your argument is, no matter how many tangential wiki articles you can cite?

And look! At no point in this whole process did they ban gatherings. Just the university sanctioned elements.

Too bad you couldn't read that, or understand them.

Or understand the significance of my saying they got a shite hand but STFU about your constitutional rights just because things turned bad for you.

I bet you and all of the down voters probably have whined in the past about the 1st amendment when someone got fired on a Twitter post too.

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Folks will be say it is ridiculous that people protest or engage in civil disobedience over issues such as voting rights, police shootings, etc.

But frick with their tailgate or beer bust, and the same folks are citing their constitutional rights and outraged at the injustice that has befallen them. A regular bunch of Rosa Parkses.

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whose voting rights have been infringed you fricking BLM filth?

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Peer pressure, there is nothing to join or to lose if you don't chug that fifth.

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In both situations, you are looking for the approval of others. Especially when it comes to booze and trying to show others how much you can drink.

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Greeks have been lectured, given workshops, seminars, or whatever for years about how hazing is wrong and basically illegal, and it still happens. So explain to me how this isn't a "Greek Culture" thing.

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You act like they kill kids every year. A kid hasn't died in 20 years. Tens of thousands of people have gone through that system without any issue between then and now. If it was truly as ingrained in the culture as you believe, we would've had way more issues. When you put together that many young guys, an idiot is bound to strike at some point. There is no rule or regulation that will stop an idiot from being an idiot.

Shutting down Greek Life does absolutely nothing. There is nothing to change. There is already a hazing and alcohol policy in place for LSU/Phi Delt. They obviously did not care about it. It's just like North Baton Rouge. You can make all the laws you want, but if someone is going to ignore it, they're going to do so regardless.

There is not a problem in Greek Culture, but all of you vaginas would make it seem as if they're killing kids left and right.

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What is a real pisser is when one particular self-righteous a-hole writes a letter and bitches about his "civil liberties" being violated and calls for a "disobedience day". Right or wrong, that type of letter just perpetuates the stereotype of Greeks being douchey assholes who think they are above everything else.

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Actually, the right to assemble is a civil right.

wtf is wrong with you?

WTH? POST QUALITY CHECK?!

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And look! At no point in this whole process did they ban gatherings. Just the university sanctioned elements.

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Dude, they wouldn't even let them eat lunch together, despite the thousands of dollars they've already paid for that meal service. If that's not overreaching, I don't know what is.

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So, 99.995 % of a group had their civil liberties taken away from them without due process and you are okay with this

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So if I wanted to form a club called the "OT Sonic Finghtin'Baws," LSU is legally required under the Constitution to personally and officially sanction my club and all its activities or my civil liberties are infringed?

Riddle me this: how does the process for this have any less "due process" than the football HC suspending or banning a player from playing on a team.

I HAVE A RIGHT TO ASSEMBLE WITH MY TEAMMATES TO MAKE MY VOICE HEARD AND ITS UNCONSTITUTIONAL FOR YOU TO BLACKMAIL MY CIVIL RIGHTS WITH THREATS TO PULL MY SCHOLARSHIP!