Six months after the horrific death of Southern University student Caleb Wilson, we are glad to see state officials discussing a variety of approaches to hazing prevention.
Wilson was killed during an off-campus ritual as he was pledging a fraternity. Three men have been charged in his death; the fraternity chapter has been expelled from Southern.
His death was exactly the kind of thing that the state’s Max Gruver law, named for an LSU freshman killed in a 2017 hazing incident, was designed to prevent. That law made hazing a felony and resulted in a rash of new reporting and hazing-prevention programs at colleges and universities in Louisiana…