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TexasTowelie

(112,204 posts)
Thu May 11, 2017, 02:07 AM May 2017

Penn State frat death: Why didn't the women call for help?

After Timothy Piazza’s death, Penn State’s Interfraternity Council admitted to his parents that his agonizing demise rested squarely on Beta Theta Pi, whose brothers lacked the humanity to get him medical help.

“The fraternity experience failed your son,” the student-led board said in a statement about the Gitmo-quality hazing of Piazza on Feb. 2 at Beta Theta Pi (whose motto, ironically, is "men of principle&quot .

"Failed” sounds so much more delicate than “killed,” doesn’t it?

But was it only the brothers who “failed” Piazza? Where were the sisters — specifically, members of Trilogy, a female campus organization, who participated in the “social” hosted by Beta Theta Pi at the frat house on the night Piazza drank himself into a stupor?

He fell multiple times, fractured his skull, lacerated his spleen, and died. Because that's what a 0.36 blood-alcohol level will do to you.

Read more: http://www.philly.com/philly/columnists/ronnie_polaneczky/Why-didnt-the-women-call-for-help-in-Penn-State-frat-death.html

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Penn State frat death: Why didn't the women call for help? (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2017 OP
Accessories get the red out May 2017 #1
It's always the default, isn't it? Somehow the female is to blame. WinkyDink Jun 2017 #2

get the red out

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1. Accessories
Thu May 11, 2017, 06:29 AM
May 2017

This is like if running over people while driving drunk, then leaving the scene of the crime, was a culture.

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