Virginia Commonwealth University student Adam Oakes was found dead at an off-campus house after a fraternity party. WWBT’s A.J. Nwoko reports.
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A bunch of GDIs in the comments
You know what most men DON’T say when they go to college? I’m going off to college where the majority of students are female, let me join a club of all men!
Binge drinking is a huge problem on college campuses. This is not the first, nor the last, student to die from alcohol poisoning. Be it hazing or partying. My son is in the military & they also deal with both young men & women getting intoxicated to the point of needing medical assistance. It's sad.
Toxic Masculinity. What happened to treating your fellow man well.
Now I'm glad i didn't join the frat here, i stick to clubs.
Sorry this isn't justice… Adam could have just not drank the amount he did… Does no one believe in personal responsibility anymore? Our country is a joke…. This is the equivalent of a drug addict overdosing.
They were never going to let him in that frat, they just wanted to make
A white man suffer. An impossible task, but teach your children to stand up to peer pressure and to
Avoid frats at all cost.
I was once almost wanting to be in the fraternity. After looking at some over absurd initiation processes, I've soon realize it's indoctrination, power over other peoples fears and them thinking that you want this treatment because you want to be in a group. It's not a social club anymore ladies and gentlemen. I'm glad I walked
Frats/Sororities where people buy friends to feel accepted
Lock em up and throw away the key.
Why get the guy with a lisp to read the report
Condolences to the family. I mean you can have a memorable and safe college experience without the need of going too extreme, just not worth it.
He was dying to be accepted and then he did smh
They should have called a squad.
Too much booze.
Put them in jail for murder !! All of them who participated !!!
Lots of finger pointing here
Kid looks like he was a sweetheart.
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Their parents taught them nothing. Nothing!
Dam rip sad
Don’t worry, when it gets to their Supreme Court Nominations the FBI will just put it down to youthful high jinks and ignore the whole thing. Clearly the fault of the victim.
Is it not about time America stopped being an hormonally unbalanced teenager and grew up?
🙠for the family & friends ðŸ™Â
What a waste of lives
Other countries were drinking age is at 16 or 18 don't as prevalent have deadly hazing problems; no stigma no taboo.
So horrible smh
Look at the pictures of those accused punks who don't even belong in a campus of higher learning It's disgusting.
They not getting no jail time
So sad. Marijuana just recently became legal in this state. If only these kids weren’t messing around with a truly dangerous drug.
Stop the Hazing. Period!
What's hazing?
RIP Adam
Fraternities are gangs that promote and enable sexual violence, as well as the abuse of their own members
Seems fraternities are not good. Seems all they do is drink and party and get in trouble
Her son reminds me of my son! AND I FEAR EVERYDAY FOR MY SON! SO HEARTBREAKING!😥😥
These guys seem so cruel
God bless America and shoutout big Adam
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There needs to be a countrywide address of this topic/problem, maybe even a high school course to educate students before they go to college because too many get hurt. Young guys either die from alcohol poisoning or they hurt young girls in ways they'd never dream of if sober and in their right minds. Clearly all families associated with the situations get hurt. Can the Education Secretary help with a problem of this magnitude?
University higher-ups seem to turn a blind eye while many students ruin their lives not knowing that 1 drink per hour up to so many a day is the max. Not funneling beer or banging out 20 plus shots. Can the First Lady, Jill Biden, make this an initiative? To help young women from being hurt and young men from ruining their lives? America needs change now!
That is incredibly sad.
A bottle of whiskey is a LOT. But. I buy larger size, so like 1.75 L, because it's cheaper. A 'fifth,' which is the term rocker dudes like to use, is only 750 ml. It's a good amount. But. I don't know how many people would die from 750 ml. The reality of booze is that you can be a 'responsible' drinker and STILL drink too much, even if you are very aware of how much you are drinking. I've been drinking since high school and it wasn't til like 43, did I learn to not over drink at any time. And we're talking about 20 year olds being charged for a drinking related death. Chances are, each of these guys was drinking, too, and was having their own experience to deal with. If some of the frat dudes were NOT drinking, they are the ones to go after, because they were probably laughing at how much this poor kid drank. If they were all drinking, you gotta go easy on these dudes. It's done at EVERY school. You can't ruin the lives of 11 people, because of something like this, especially when they hardly remember what went on, that night, too.
something like this happened in my country a few years ago. guess what department they came from. college of LAW. my gosh 😑😑😑😑. they're in jail now. all for a stupid fraternity
American college culture is fuâ€Ââ€Âkin stupid.
Fraternities are useless
Man that's just a good kid, you can see it in the thumbnail pic. That's sad.
you shouldn't drink.!
PLAIN AND SIMPLE.!
REALLY. This is still happening?!?
Those kids look crazy !
President is running the country into the ground; I feel bad for this kid but this is not a story right now. NBC missed Trump so much; our current president reads from cue cards for three minutes and runs away; well, ambles away.