Zarco and Shoemaker (1995) give a couple explanations of why this violence, particularly in fraternities, continues to occur. The first thought is the idea of legacy. “Perhaps members of the fraternities have relatives, including fathers, who were members of the fraternity, and learned of the violence, and perhaps the animosities, among certain groups on campus from these relatives” (Zarco & Shoemaker, 1995, pp. 76-77). The researchers suggested that because these family members were a part of these fraternities, or saw the way these fraternities behaved on camppus, they were more or less “comfortable” with their sons partaking in this sort of violence. The students that were interviewed did not say their parents out-right stated that they
