Lawsuits have increased for college fraternities over the last years (Flanagan 72+). Fraternities point fingers at victims instead of themselves, reject members when a situation occurs, and force parents to pay the large legal bills (Flanagan 72+). At Marshall University, Travis Hughes rammed a bottle rocket in this anal cavity while under the influence ( Flanagan 72+). Another person on the deck with him was Louis Helmburg III who recorded the situation on his phone (Flanagan 72+). Helmburg panicked when Hughes became a bomb and fell off the deck (Flanagan 72+). Flanagan explains, “college fraternities are as old as a republic” (72+).When lawsuits are made against fraternities, the defence argument is that fraternities helped many young men
