To the Editor:
Working directly with students for over 30 years, as professor, dean, and president, I have observed that hazing (and its not-so-distant cousin, bullying on the secondary-school level) are never individual events (“After a Death, a Question: Are Students Hard-Wired for Hazing?” The Chronicle, February 12). A single individual does not haze, or bully, another. There is universal agreement that students as individuals are one thing (usually wonderful), but put them in a group and Animal House may break out. Often it is a small group within a larger group, such as four or five members of the football team, or the same number of fraternity brothers, who carry things too far. The other members either just watch or acquiesce, but do not get into the dangerous physical side of it.
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