Well, there were a whole bunch of rules AND state statutes about which these entitled and privileged young men were well aware.
Clearly the punishments in those statutes WERE NOT SUFFICIENT to deter this frat from making drunkenness a requirement for admission. Moreover, they blew off this brain-damaged young man for 12 hours while he lay dying.
During the Paterno assassination, and the assault on all of us, some voices called on us to move on. What was our response? This is their CHILD, not their football coach.
Somewhere in this country, maybe at Covington Catholic, are young men whose families are horrified, but not at the notion that their son may cause the death of a pledge, or become known as the kind of coward who watches a guy dying and does not call an ambulance. They will be horrified because his cowardice might bankrupt THEM. That is a good fear for them to have.
In my view, the more we talk about this, the longer we wait to move on, the more likely we stop it from happening again