its an inside joke.... only asians get down with frats, who joins a frat or takes one seriously at a commuter school?
since this is the coli i'm gonna say 1. trying to be like white college students 2. bottom of the totem-pole lames and this is the only way to fool themselves into gaining coolness or whatever
RIP to the kid, but I'm just shocked that they had a getaway to pledge a frat. I don't remember any frat activity at Brooklyn at all.