Thursday, September 25, 2014

Affiliated Consultant, Gentry McCreary, quoted in The Chronicle of HigherEducation's "Colleges Crack Down on Fraternities Amid a Wave of Crises"

Gentry McCreary, associate dean of students at the University of West Florida and a former director of Greek affairs at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, said in an interview on Wednesday that those doing the hazing have become morally disengaged and tolerate greater abuse, with each subsequent class upping the ante because they’ve just been through it themselves.

And unlike groups, like college bands, where an adult is theoretically in charge, in fraternities "we have the inmates running the prison," he said. "They have ultimate power over the lives of their peers, and incredibly bad things happen."

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