Bishop to students: Keep out of frats
MANILA, Feb. 23, 2012— A Catholic bishop advised students not to join fraternities and sororities especially those with dangerous initiations. Bishop Deogracias Iñiguez of Caloocan said the recent death of San Beda law student Marvin Reglos from an alleged hazing incident showed risks in joining fraternities. He acknowledged that maybe not all initiations are dangerous, but stressed that enough have already been publicized to let the public know many are not safe. “If an organization has things like hazing, (students) should avoid it,” Iñiguez told Manila archdiocese-run Radyo Veritas. “We are also appealing to the youth to carefully examine organizations that they want to be with,” added the head of the Committee on Public Affairs of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippine. Retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz believes that all fraternities can have the potential to be great and can affect community positively with the right leaders. “Having a fraternity is not bad becaus...