Maybe the ban on pledging would be a real step toward eradicating dangerous hazing, he thought.
The brogrammer culture is not much better than a frat house culture with dangerous hazing rituals.
In response to such incidents, Sigma Alpha Epsilon has been instituting new policies to shed its stereotype of heavy partying and sometimes dangerous hazing.
Hank Nuwer, a professor at Franklin College in Indiana who has written several books about hazing, said that dangerous and degrading hazing rituals have a lengthy history.
Mr. Kruger, of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, said the focus on hazing and dangerous behavior on campuses nationwide did not mean the problems were disappearing.
The ice cream company said last month that it would consider changing the moniker after Lianne and Brian Kowiak of Tampa, Florida -- whose son, Harrison, was killed in 2008 while pledging a fraternity -- complained that the name made light of the dangerous college tradition of hazing.
Critics say the fraternity system leads to drinking, hazing and other dangerous practices that sometimes result in death.
Since 1996, other Vermont hockey hazing parties have been held that were "arguably more dangerous and more demeaning than the hazing that had taken place" in October, he said.
The local authorities and the company tried to convey the idea that, although the smoke may be dangerous, it was not, say, a haze of poison.
The University Hearing Board (UHB) called the club's hazing rituals "extremely serious," "dangerous," and "humiliating".
