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EPISODE · Aug 24, 2020 · 54 MIN

The Blame Game

from Why Don’t We Know Podcast · host whydontweknow

Why Don’t We Know how to stop hazing deaths? It’s one of those sadly persistent stories, with no real progress being made toward a solution. Host: Sara Ganim. Reporter: Jessica Curbelo. Guests: Daphne Beletsis, Doug Fierberg, Walter Kimbrough, David Easlick.

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There is no mechanism in the United States to force universities or fraternity organizations to record and make public instances of fraternity misconduct, and so parents and students can’t to do their due diligence and shop smart. Our year-long investigation found the publicly available information is woefully incomplete. And so what typically happens, is that no one sees that a problem is brewing, until it bubbles up and spills over the edge – a lesson learned in the most painful and tragic way for Daphne Beletsis, whose son died in 2018 at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “I still don’t know exactly why or how he went from inside the bathroom to the ground below and I may never know that,” Daphne Beletsis, his mother, said.

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