In a scathing letter to the Penn State Board of Trustees, the parents of a university sophomore who died in February after falling several times during a fraternity hazing party while profoundly intoxicated excoriated university officials for their part in their son's death.
In the letter, which is dated May 31, James and Evelyn Piazza appealed to administrators to fulfill their obligation to look after students and reject what they say is a culture of denial and complacency.
"You, the [Board of Trustees], have a significant obligation to do the right things, not the popular things to appease a small group of alumni who still do not get it, to make Greek Life and all life safer at Penn State," James and Evelyn Piazza wrote in the letter, which is dated May 31.