<p>Columbus Dispatch reporters Lucas Sullivan, Sheridan Hendrix, Mike Wagner, and audio engineer Patrick Flaherty sit down to discuss the Broken Pledge hazing project. During this show we discuss how this project got started, how we reported on this topic, and share some interesting experiences that happened along the way. Finally, we share some reader and listener feedback that we have received since the project has launched.</p>

Chapter 8: ‘They killed him’

Each year for at least the last two decades a&nbsp;fraternity pledge has died in this country. And every year the rinse-and-repeat cycle of freshmen hitting campus and being hazed by their peers goes unchanged.&nbsp;Broken Pledge is the story of how a teenager goes off to college and dies. It exposes the underbelly of a system that allows fraternities and universities to protect their brands instead of standing up for victims.&nbsp;