They’re in university, they’re not boys.
They invited others online to come over and join in.
That’s not acceptable from anyone including teen and pre-teens.
And I thought you wouldn’t be making excuses for the perpetrators of these actions as just boys being boys.

They're in college. They are men, regardless of what they "look like". They should've known drugging and gang raping anyone was bad their entire lives, anyway. Put them all in the worst prison in the country for the rest of their lives, at bare minimum. And stop trying to be soft on rapists