P2 Blog Post

While perusing the Ethics of Higher Education, I came across a striking story about some of the most brutal occurrences that take place in college. Occurrences that leave the victims feeling inhuman and treated worse than cattle before they are processed. Greek Life hazing. This issue has gone for time long enough, unchecked and seemingly covered up and ignored. The issues I'd like to solve are the incredibly masochistic treatment of pledges, in what would otherwise be very prestigious universities. The level of prestige probably being the reason for why it has gone on for so long without anything done about it.  These universities thrive off of their traditions, but it gets to a point where it is time for some of them to go, because of the products that are produced in the students that endure it. Most of the students that graduate from such institutions go on to become highly placed individuals in society, but also take these horrible memories with them. as a result, it is no surprise that you would find most psychopaths in places such as Goldman Sachs rather than in prisons. What I propose be done about this, is a system be set up in which a human resource officer who has no connection to the fraternities themselves, be available to and involved directly with pledges and frat brothers alike. This would be in place in order to be able to tell if there is truly something despicable going on behind the curtain of what would mostly be a very secretive scene. In addition to this, these resource officers would rotate frats every week or so so that they are not biased or tied to the group themselves, to prevent corruption in the system. This proposal would be proposed to the university faculty, mainly because of their power to put such leverages in place. It is a very simple and feasible proposal to put in place. Very little complication, and there should be a very large margin of improvement among pledges because of it. Otherwise, it would seem almost as if the university is just turning a blind eye to what goes on in the hazing process of fraternities.