<p>I have no idea what they were thinking; for all I know they might have thought they would be murdered if they didn’t allow themselves to be beaten. The question is whether those feelings were reasonable under the circumstances. This is Rutgers, so the students must be fairly academically accomplished and smart. This is 2010, where Greek life has been maligned for decades about hazing. From my own D’s current sorority experience, anti-hazing is drilled into their heads. It is not news, it is the law now. No one, including the law, can protect people from offering themselves up for abuse if they decide to do so based on the unreasonable belief that they do not have the choice to say “no.”</p>