*One of the pillars of American fraternity culture eliminated its hot-button “pledging” process Sunday after a string of hazing-related deaths. Sigma Alpha Epsilon — one of the nation’s largest and oldest fraternities that counts among its alums William Faulkner and President William McKinley — had announced in a statement Friday that it would end its member initiation practices. “We have experienced a number of incidents and deaths, events with consequences that have never been consistent with our membership experience,” SAE said. The frat will now have a more cerebral selection process they are dubbing “The True Gentleman Experience.” “Pledges” across the country have allegedly been subjected to rituals that run the gamut from goofy high jinks straight out of “Animal House” to grisly physical abuse that some say turns recruits into veritable prisoners…* Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur, and Steve Oh (COO of TYT) break it down on The Young Turks.

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