The seemingly insatiable desire of American prosecutors to criminalize as many ordinary and law-abiding citizens as possible has now reached the Dean’s office:

A pair of schools officials, including the dean of students, and three students from Rider University have the campus community stunned after being charged with ìaggravated hazingî in the death of a freshman student that died following a night of binge drinking at a fraternity house late last March, authorities said Friday. [. . .]
“The ramifications of this for colleges and universities in New Jersey, and across the country, is that it will send some kind of message that the standards of college life, when it relates to alcohol, need to be policed carefully,” Mercer County Prosecutor Joseph Bocchini Jr. told the Associated Press.

Bocchini didn’t mention that he could have also obtained the indictment of a ham sandwich if he had asked the grand jury for one. I’m looking forward to hearing about the “evidence” that the Dean had anything to do whatsoever with the alleged hazing incident that led to this young man’s unfortunate death. If, as I suspect, there isn’t any, then what exactly is the message that Bocchini is sending?