Joining Fraternities Could Be Fatal

Joining fraternities could be fatal these days.

One such incident happened recently when an 18-year old student from the College of St.Benilde in Manila died during an initiation rite of a fraternity.

I was thinking of a topic for a post at one of my writing sites, the Day2daytips.com, a Filipino-owned revenue-sharing site, when I heard and saw on television, aired by Jiggy Manicad of GMA channel 7 about the incident.

It was heartbreaking to see a young man being dragged by some two or three companions out of a room apparently to take him to a hospital or somewhere.

The victim was clad in green basketball shorts, usually worn by a La Salle student. My son is always wearing one, which he got when he was still a member of the lawn tennis varsity team at La Salle.

For a mother who also has a son almost that age, I was terrified. How much more of the real parents of the victim? It was tragic, so senseless loss.

How could the culprits done it? Were they in their right minds when they did the hazing? Didn't they know the limits of physical endurance?

Were they intoxicated with liquour or banned drugs that they inflicted that torture to a young man?

Hope that the justice be served and the culprits learn their lessons.

Though there are laws against hazing, it has no teeth, and even if schools banned fraternities, it is the student who should have the right discretion.