Cornell Lax Team Suspended For Fall Season After Hazing Incident

Foxnews - Cornell University has suspended its entire men’s lacrosse program for the fall after an alcohol-related hazing of freshmen recruits, which involved a beer-drinking competition, the school says. Bloomberg News reports the suspension began Sept. 13 and wipes out the nationally competitive squad’s fall schedule, including exhibition games. “It’s a team-wide penalty for a team-wide incident,” John Carberry, a Cornell spokesman, told Bloomberg News via telephone. “It involved coerced alcohol consumption by underage freshmen.” In a report posted on Cornell’s hazing website , college officials said the team held a party that involved a “keg race,” where freshmen were forced to stand in a circle and drink large amounts of beer. The freshmen were tied together with string that passed through their belt loops, and some of the members vomited.The report also noted freshmen were also required to perform menial tasks and duties for upperclassmen. “They were expected to spend a large amount of time with the other members in both lacrosse-related and social situations planned by upperclass members of the team,” the report said. Campus officials have reportedly taken a zero-tolerance policy to hazing, or particularly since the 2011 death of student George Desdunes, a Cornell fraternity member who perished after being bound with duct tape and forced to drink alcohol.

Y’all know me. Know how I earn a livin. I make my bones ripping stories like these apart. Pussification of America blah, blah, blah. Well I’m not going to do that here. Listen the Lacrosse team has to be smarter than this. I mean they do go to Cornell. Ever heard of it? The facts are a kid dieD 2 years ago from hazing. The Dean has made it his mission to outlaw hazing. You got to have your head on a swivel. Can’t be tying Freshman together and making em drink till they puke like you’re in Animal House. Or if you’re gonna do it you better have it on absolute lock down. Make sure you got no rats on the team. Because if word leaks the Dean has no choice to suspend you. If you ask me these bros are lucky he didn’t cancel the entire season. It sounds like he just canceled fall ball which doesn’ t really count I don’t think. Yeah hazing is always going to happen. Trying to stop it is like trying to stop the tides. But if you get caught in a situation like this you really got nobody to blame but yourself.