In February 2011, George Desdunes was kidnapped by freshman pledges as part of a hazing ritual. He was blindfolded, tied up, and made to consume a lethal amount of alcohol. When George's mother stepped in to get answers, she was met with silence. For a transcript of this episode: https://bit.ly/campusfiles-transcripts To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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He was getting ready. He had two interviews because he had two internships coming. So he needed to prepare himself for the interview. He went to his girlfriend because she knows how to do interviews and he was practicing with her.
On a Thursday night in February, George was out with his friends. He had a slice of pizza and some soda at a local restaurant. From there, George went to his girlfriend's apartment where he stayed until a little after two in the morning. As part of pledging, George's fraternity assigned pledges to act as on-call drivers, basically a free private Uber for members of SAE.
Given the late hour, George called for a safe ride home.
And George called the identified pledge that was responsible for making sure that brothers were transported. Other pledges got in the car, all with the intent on responding to George, but rather than taking him back to the fraternity house to kidnap him and engage in the very thing that they were berated for not having done.
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Chapter 2: Who was George Desdunes?
Special thanks to Marie Andre for speaking with us about her son, George. Campus Files is an Odyssey original podcast. This episode was written and reported by Ian Mont. Campus Files is produced by Ian Mont, Elliot Adler, and me, Margo Gray. Our executive producers and story editors are Maddie Sprungkaiser and Lloyd Lockhart. College holds a mythic place in American culture.
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