If you haven't gone through Hell Week, you know nothing about Hell Week. Bringing Hell Week drama up to the world is irrelevant and confusing, which is why I never posted about my Hell Week experience on my blog. So why did someone leak their email from a dean when the rest of the world couldn't truly understand Hell Week? (You can find the article that includes the leaked email and the drama surrounding it here)
Yes, for the most part, this is laughable, but what the news fails to recognize is that Customs People are meant to be advocates for the freshmen and are supposed to be Hell Free for their own Customs Group; so if things were getting out of hand, which they may have been with the water dumping and forcing certain things (as cruel deception and force are violations of the Honor Code), the Customs People should have stepped in and advocated for their freshmen.
Regardless, I'm very surprised that these actions were reported to the deans. Why were they reported? Did someone feel as if they were being hazed? And why did the Hell Week Committee not step in? Are these things just being exaggerated?
Here are some more reports on the incidence just to show how blown out of proportion this whole thing is, especially since it happened practically a month ago:
- Jezebel
- Philadelphia Inquirer
- Fox News
