Youth urged to shun fraternities and sororities

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FOLLOWING the death of a law student from San Beda College, a Catholic bishop advised students not to join fraternities and sororities especially those with life-threatening initiations.

While not all initiations are dangerous, Bishop Deogracias Iñiguez of Caloocan said that enough have already been publicized to let the public know many are not safe.

Last Sunday, freshman law student Marvin Reglos allegedly died of hazing from his superiors at the Lambda Rho Beta Fraternity.

On Thursday, fraternity leader Eduardo Escobal II went under questioning at the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) but he is not yet considered a suspect, according to Justice Secretary Leila de Lima.

"If an organization has things like hazing, (students) should avoid it," Iñiguez said. "We are also appealing to the youth to carefully examine organizations that they want to be with."

Having a fraternity is not bad, said retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz because it is a brotherhood "but let it not come to the extent that someone is hurt or killed."

Another Church official, meanwhile, called on the government to regulate fraternities and sororities in schools.

"It is sad that this incident was committed by young men with brilliant minds but with brutal hearts," Father Conegundo Garganta of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines’ (CBCP) commission on youth.

"Thus, I believe, the government must by all means exact the law that will regulate fraternities and sororities to secure safety of students," he said.


source: sunstar.com.ph