Fraternities
Some students join fraternities simply because they want to "belong" to a group. For most of these students, they hunger for attention, or recognition -- something they find "wanting" at home (either because one or both parents are absent or seldom seen at home). Fraternities answer the "void" these students have. For other students, fraternities in themselves present a status -- something you take pride in, because other campus celebrities or famous persons belong to the said fraternity. There are also students who were somehow "forced" to join fraternities out of peer pressure -- if they don't, they can be subject to ostracism or downright rejection. To avoid getting bullied, some students prefer joining fraternities to get protection. Ironically, though, these same fraternities become the very cause of student deaths orinjuries. There have been several news reports in the past, of students getting killed in fraternity "initiation rites" or fraternity-related violence (frat wars). For as long as fraternities do not abide by the very essence for which they were established, students will never get the "protection" they expect.