Dartmouth, based in Hanover, New Hampshire, was rocked by a
hazing scandal in January when then-senior Andrew Lohse wrote about eating
omelettes made from vomit and other degrading rituals at Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Can
you imagine that?????
Harvard faculty voted last yr to require registration of parties and ban
drinking games, and Cornell ordered fraternities to have live-in advisers. This
fall, Dartmouth began security checks at Greek houses and Princeton University
banned freshmen from joining them.
The moves are the latest effort to regulate campus behavior
since rules controlling students -- known as in loco parentis -- were abolished
in the 1960s. Disobedience crested last year for Ivy League schools, which cost
more than $50,000 a year to attend. A Dartmouth hazing article detailed rituals
involving bodily fluids. A Cornell student died of alcohol poisoning, and Yale
was hit with a discrimination complaint after fraternity members chanted “No
means yes! Yes means anal!”
Colleges have been in an arms race to prove to students that
they’re cool and give more freedom than the others. Now, maybe the pendulum is
starting to swing the other way. College
students have come to equate the absence of boundaries with fun. That, combined
with large amounts of alcohol easily available on campus, can skew students’
sense of what is acceptable or even normal.
Oh Boy... we see it all in movies, wonder how it's like if one is really there? Singapore's uni life is so tame compared to them. However who wants to eat vomit omelettes anyway?
