Ivy League Students- Out of Control !!!

Have you heard of this? Harvard and Cornell universities have joined Yale University and Dartmouth College in cracking down on out-of-control behavior as drinking, hazing and sexual harassment endanger students and tarnish Ivy League reputations.

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?