According to Ravital Segal, (April 9, 2012 Huffington Post article) the woman who almost died in the hazing, "Dartmouth's current President, Jim Yong Kim, promised the Dartmouth community that he will not overhaul its Greek system. Certainly, Kim is in a tough position. When his predecessor President Wright (Dartmouth President 1998-2009) attempted to eradicate the Greek system, both alumni and students balked, forcing Wright to back down. While Wright was unsuccessful, his intentions were in the right place. The mental and physical health of Dartmouth students is at stake and the Greek system's hold on Dartmouth's social life needs to be loosened. At best, President Kim's tepid response to Dartmouth's hazing pandemic can be traced to a fear of reduced alumni giving and campus tension. At worst, Kim's tepid response can be attributed to his personal ambitions and fear of bad publicity. This is particularly relevant given President Obama's recent nomination of Kim to The World Bank's top post." Hazing Confessions of a Dartmouth Alum http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ravital-segal/hazing-dartmouth_b_1411932.html?ref=college Dartmouth Hazing Nightmare http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/04/11/dartmouth-hazing-nightmare/ Dartmouth Hazing Nightmare http://jezebel.com/5900558/dartmouth-sorority-girl-goes-public-with-her-hazing-nightmare one night during rush:
I was blindfolded with two of my fellow pledges. We were guided into the back seat of a car and one of our future sisters commanded us to chug the alcoholic punch that had been pre-prepared for each of us in individual 64-ounce water bottles. Simultaneously, I was handed numerous vodka shots from the older sister sitting in the front seat. Things happened quickly. After what couldn't have been more than a fifteen-minute drive, I was told to get out of the car. I did — but then I lost all consciousness. To this day, I have no idea what happened that night. As frightening as that prospect sounds, it gets worse once you know the end result: I woke up the following morning in the Intensive Care Unit at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. I wasn't alone. I later learned that three other girls had also been admitted, each having overdosed on alcohol due to hazing rituals. Two were fellow pledges, and one was pledging another sorority, Sigma Delta.
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