[Poison Pill]

All of it. No one forced him to down the booze.

I'd have to disagree. Pleges by definition do what they're told.

[imardmd1]

imardmd1: All of it. No one forced him to down the booze.

Poison Pill: I'd have to disagree. Pleges by definition do what they're told.

You can disagree all you want, but you're dead wrong. A pledge does only what he wants to do. I was a PiKA pledge ay Alpha Chiu Chapter 58 years ago, and if I didn't want to go through Hell Week, I could just pack my bags and walk out the door.

This guy could have done the same. In fact, rather than be depledged, I'll bet if he dropped a dime and talked with the Chapter's Alumnus Advisor, the SMC would have felt the axe for carrying the stress testing beyond a sane limit. And the pledge would not have been black-balled as a whiner.

But in any case, he was stupid to allow someone to convince him to poison himself with ethanol when walking away from it was certainly an option.