04-15-2020, 09:57 PM
I recall during my time at Stanford that Tri Delta was placed on alcohol suspension because of a pledge event in which the pledges were put in a room with football players, encouraged to take shots until they were practically sick, and then strongly encouraged to give the football players BJs. In theory, they could have said no, but the setting almost assured they wouldn't. As you can see from this story, not all of those charges stuck, legally, but I had it on good authority that that was what had transpired. This was Stanford. 2004. Students who had been admitted, went through Real World Stanford, etc.
People, and especially young people, do really stupid things. Not saying that means Hector deserved admission (he didn't), but read Hidden Brain - especially when in groups, humans are surprisingly passive and morally lax. A famous example of this was a woman who was stripped and beaten so badly she jumped off a bridge to spare herself from being beaten further, only to perish in the river below. Dozens of people watched it happen, and no one intervened. Etc.
How to prevent it? Train people to speak up early, immediately, and affirmatively. Once one person does, others will follow.
People, and especially young people, do really stupid things. Not saying that means Hector deserved admission (he didn't), but read Hidden Brain - especially when in groups, humans are surprisingly passive and morally lax. A famous example of this was a woman who was stripped and beaten so badly she jumped off a bridge to spare herself from being beaten further, only to perish in the river below. Dozens of people watched it happen, and no one intervened. Etc.
How to prevent it? Train people to speak up early, immediately, and affirmatively. Once one person does, others will follow.