MS 4.30 The Rise of Deadly Fraternity Hazing and How it Can be Stopped
The Philip DeFranco Show
philip defranco
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2019
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to your extra morning news show. My name is Philip DeFranco and today we're |
| 0:03.7 | to be talking about fraternities. Now there are about 9 million past and present fraternity |
| 0:08.1 | and sorority members in the United States. And while that number represents only 3% of the |
| 0:11.8 | overall population, fraternity alumni make up a disproportionate amount of powerful people in the United States. |
| 0:16.7 | 69% of US President since 1877, 63% of US Cabinet members since 1900, |
| 0:22.1 | and a whopping 85% of Fortune 500 executives |
| 0:25.3 | have been part of a fraternity. |
| 0:26.6 | And while Greek life supporters point to these statistics as an example of how fraternities |
| 0:29.8 | can breed success, for many people on the outside for turkeys are mostly associated |
| 0:33.7 | with partying booze and hazing. I mean just look at how they're characterizing pop |
| 0:37.1 | culture. |
| 0:38.1 | How bad do you want to be a delta would you walk on broken glass? |
| 0:47.0 | Right? |
| 0:50.0 | Right, no, say, right no say, and we'll And while these movies generally portray these rituals as harmless, humorous |
| 0:57.5 | rights of passage in recent years in particular, we've seen that |
| 1:00.2 | certain aspects of the Greek system can be dangerous and sometimes even deadly. |
| 1:03.4 | In fact, there have been multiple deaths related to hazing or suspected hazing at US colleges |
| 1:07.0 | every year since 2012, including three already this year. |
| 1:10.0 | So to understand the root of this problem and some of the proposed solutions being offered to prevent dangerous fraternity hazing, we had Cody Snell from the Rogue Rocket team jump into it. |
| 1:18.0 | We have a friend who's unconscious. |
| 1:22.0 | That was the 911 call made from Penn State University's Beta Theta Pie fraternity |
| 1:26.7 | on the morning of February 3rd, 2017. |
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