"But let's move this forward. Which houses currently on or off-campus are the most likely place for a Penn State-like scenario to occur? It would be nice to alert the chapter advisors if similar conduct may be occurring under their noses."
It's really hard to say. It can't be predicted. As I mentioned in an earlier post, there was a "train" in Landis hall in 1981. Not fraternity related.
Guys passing out drunk happened many times at every party. One guy I know passed out before Christmas, and they shaved his eyebrows, stripped him down and took compromising pictures of him with a giant candy cane stick up at his butt. Nobody every thought those pictures would be posted on Facebook, and fortunately those weren't , but I have had a few 1980s pictures show up on FB and my kids saw them.
You really did not want to pass out in public at a fraternity party. The same went for women.
I think the difference is whether they were forced to drink and whether they had physically sustained an injury. We used to line our staircase with mattresses and slide down to the bottom sitting in a box and wearing a football helmet. The landing was covered with mattresses. No recipe for disaster there......It was great fun back then.
If the universities weren't so intolerant of drinking, this could have been avoided because the brothers would have called an ambulance because they didn't need to fear punishment. Drinking used to occur on campus and people could walk. Now it occurs off campus and people drive. This is solely due to the PC police at universities. Uber has made a huge difference here though.
It not unlike the woman who leaves her baby at the firestation instead of dumping it in a dumpster. She doesn't need to fear prosecution for doing the right thing. 18-20 year olds are going to drink in college no matter the policy. When I was at FSU, the drinking age was 18-19, and we would not have feared punishment.
I don't mean to diminish from the tragedy of this or the poor response from the brother's at all. However if they did not fear punishment, the situation may have been avoided.
Grad 91, did/do you know the victim Kathy?