CU frat pledge wouldn't quit on teammates
A letter to my boys: please be smart. Remember, you don't ever have to do anything you don't want to do. No amount of peer pressure can make you do anything, it's you who has control over your life and your decisions. Let this be a lesson for us all - we live, and die with the decisions we make (or don't make).
This is so tragic, and happens so frequently that it is almost unimagineable. How can we let our guard down? Each year it's someone else. The same story, just a different year, and different name. My greatest fear is losing my boys. It's never too early to teach them about peer pressure, even if they are only four.
By George Merritt and Amy Herdy
Denver Post Staff Writers
No matter what the pain, even when he couldn't see straight, or breathe, or taste anything but dirt and blood, Lynn "Gordie" Bailey would not quit.
It was how he played football. It was how he lived life.
Standing around a campfire in the mountains of Gold Hill with 26 other Chi Psi pledges, the 18-year-old Bailey faced a new challenge with his new team: "No one is leaving until the whiskey is gone."
He would not let them down. No matter what.
"My brain is telling my body to quit," he once wrote of playing football, "but my body won't let it."
When he was urged to finish vast amounts of Ten High Whiskey and Carlo Rossi wine, Bailey's enthusiasm did not quit.
His body, however, did. By the next morning, he was dead. read more>>
1 comments:
Tuesday, October 19, 2004 8:56:00 PM
That's the kind of mindless "sheep-like-ness" that really irritates me. "Didn't let his team down." They really shouldn't have used that phrase because it still leaves a note of positivity in a completely sad and unnecessary situation.
Teach your kids Scott. Teach them well. Our children deserve better lives than being taught by peers that "taking it for the team" is drinking yourself to death.
-X
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