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April 30, 1981 Scrimshaw page 7 Hazing debate continues States side with colleges vs. Frats Psi at Tennessee felt "fear for their and public humiliation" ard. Indeed, a pledge at the Univer- argued bill sponsor Jim Cramer at a When the Alpha Phi Alpha chapter lives" when three actives one The solution to it all has eluded sity of Alabama was dismissed from March press conference membership at the University of Pitts- brandishing a gun -- kidnapped them most administrators, however Sigma Alpha Epsilon aller telling his New Jersey enacted a similar law burgh "severely paddled" one of its and paddled them. The case reached "I got the feeling hazing was com- father that an SAE active had hit a January 12 after intense lobbying by pledges, the pledge was hospitalized a grand jury. ing back around 1977," recalls Fred pledge with an axe handle during the Committee to Halt Useless Col- with kidney damage, and APA was + Two Pledges of a frat at the Yoder of Sigma Chi's national head- initiation lege Killings (CHUCK) ultimately kicked off campus University of Oregon were hit by a quarters It wasn't a "big problem" in With the relative ineffectiveness of CHUCK, organized by Eileen Stev- A month earlier, the University 01 car while returning to campus after the early seventies, he says, because university and national group sanc- ens of Sayville, N.Y. after her son SouthernCalifornia also kicked one of members "dropped them off miles "students were more of a mind to tions, more states are resorting to died in a 1978 hazing accident, is its fraternities off campus, also alleg- from town" seven weeks ago. One is question things then." legislationto stop the annualintimida- also credited with getting stiff penal- edly for hazing still in the hospital "But when student activism calmed tions. Eight states now have passed ties approved in New York, where an The expulsions are indicative of an In the last two years, at least three down, fraternity membership started anti-hazing laws. Hazing is a misde- Ithaca College student was killed increasingly tough stand by adminis- students have died from similar initia- riSing, and students were more in- meanor carrying a 3D-day Jail sen- during initiation last spring trators against the sometimes-brutal tion activities. Administrators and leg- clined to accept things" like "painful tence in Wisconsin. At the other But the usual protest of campus initiation procedures of their fraterni- islators fear hazing is not only on the initiation rites," Yoder says extreme, New Jersey makes it a behaviour hasn't been heard in nee- ties and sororities. But against this In 1977, Sigma Chi sent an anti- ing cases ~~a~~~ou:i~; t~~~t:~e~~s~dS~~~~:; "MORE STATES ARE RESORTING ~Zi:~~t~~~~zeent:~sall,,~:~~~~~~~~ ~6~~~~ T~~~~G ~ C~I~~~:'I~~e"~~~e:~rr~I~~,~~~~t~~~; _i_~_;_~_KERS_Al_.. _PR_OS_E_CDn_O_N_OF ~~E:~~;~~~:~:t~~~;ri',,~~~:!,; ;;~'~~~~~~~;~~~Ea~~~~n~~~;n~ . T10N RITES," ~~ed~~!li~~Sa;:~~~ra~~r~~u~h~u~~nn: erally don't like to offend alumni in nationwide. upswing, but becoming more secre- and send it to its chapters. felony, with a 18-month prison term any way. Written university prohibitions tive Mos! schools also have anti-hazing and $7000 fine attached "Insofar as the law serves as a against hazing and even previous "I've been hearing second-hand regulations on the books. Many pub- SIeve Glazer of Ihe California State deterrent, the Wisconsinlaw is probe- warnings did not prevent the Pitts- reports that fraternities are pushing usn annual reminders about them, Student Association hopes to per- bly effective," says Howard. He thinks burgh incident, for example. Similar lor rougher and tougher initiation Pittsburgh's Smith adds suede legislators in his stale to up the law works "probably because it prohibitions existed when rites," relates Roger Howard, asso- But many administrators complain the current hazing penalty from a six- calls such 'pranks' as kidnapping and + The Alpha Phi Alpha chapter at crate dean at the University of Wis- other forces hamper their efforts to month iail term to a one-year felony assault what they are -- kidnapping Southern Illinois at Edwardsville was consin-Madison. "We haven't had any prevent hazing. A recent USC report sentence with a $5000 fine and assaut -- instead of hazing" indefinitely suspended by the nalioal lormal complaints in ten years, 'but balmed "active members and alumni" "People are unwilling 10 prosecute "I think anything i~ _Qetpful,"Yoder APA when a pledge was injured that certainly doesn't mean it isn't for perpetuating hazing traditions under the present penal code be- comments. "Laws add more rein- during a December "fraternity ecnv- going on. People are Iust pressured Mike Wittern, former fraternity affairs cause people call hazin~ 'accidents,' fcrcement to univestiy and national ity" of undisclosed nature not to report it." One reason may be director, wrote in the report that many and therefore they have no criminal fraternity positions that rally need it." + Delta Tau Delta members were that in Wisconsin, people convicted pledges won't report hazing "be- responsibility." Most opposition to the new laws expelled from USC-owned property of hazing are subject to a jail term cause the active chapter holds the Under Ihe new law, "there will be come from local fralernity chapters after repealed warnings about initia- "Initiation rites aren't as brutal as all-poweriut promise of membership no way to say hazing was an accr- But, says Glazer, "The courts will tion practices. A "series of rituals" they used to be," argues Ihe Univer- over their heads" dent" decide guilt or innocense, regardless during January Hell Week caused the sity of Oregon's Bill Boland. "But 'The biggest problem is the incredi- "Fratenity membership is steadily of whether fraternities support the expulsion, say fraternity members there is an increase of more mentally ble group pressure not to report a increasing, and these non-accidental decision" + Three pledges of Kappa Alpha abusive hazing, like demeaning skits violation," agrees Wisconsin's How- accidents must not be continued," Creative expressions Collect knowledge as you live, for of a surety it has no end And truth can never fail The Inward Epistle In rage the flesh tears at the breaking spirit but she never gives In a blast she blows him away, forever Emptied, totally emptied by the war I hang low and limp Out of my bloody lingers, out of the cracked and bony tips Erupts the traces of an ancient vision On the tips of my fingers I saw the multitudinous fields of creatures, of planets and trees and insects And the houses of men And the waters that have split out over the earth I have looked up and seen the endless floods of energy that run across the universe "Up With People" presented the sounds of The Big Band Era last weekend The endless round light of the suns I have felt the massive whirl of the opposing in Gill Gym. energys The gravitys and the repulsions, Testing students with purpose The motion and the rest, The fixed and the free, the bodies of light I have understood the gravity, and the nature of spheres from page 1 I saw the thoughts of the naked saints, Single course for which (Ihe exam) baSIS,it's a cumulative thing .. And the struggles 01 spirits were made known Brown. "They can evaluate their ef- would be a good measure of how Higbee staled that next year will be forts against an outside evaluator." to me. (the students) did" the last year that these tests are The taking of the test by Ihe juniors Law and Brown both expressed available from the Educational Test- •••,J have read the lines (the spheres) was entirely for their benefil their belief in the value of the test for ing Service in Princeton. She will be of the internal epistle Dr. Law said that the Economics maintaining academic standards. "I looking for alternativesthat "allow the By definition as a thinking being majors took the Graduate Record think we need some kind of touch- same idea but are more helpful for I have read the internal epistle Exam this year because "for the last stones with which to compare our individual students," She is scoring 2 years there have been bugs in the certcrmance now with our perform- the tests as quickly as possible to let UREand they are trying to restructure ance earlier and our performance yet departments and students know the The atoms, the molecules, me compounds it" the mixtures (and their tempered shapes) The resultsof Ihis test can be used to come-. and against other schools," results, and plans 10 do an item-by- The jelly of the minds said Law, 'The iests help 10 establish item analysis this summer so that the bobbing realms of consciousness by students in applying to graduate a measure of how the department is departments can see certain areas of The periectly exact composites school if they so desire. Law also doing. You can gel resultsto see how weakness. Higbee said that "doing believes that the test his students your students do on a particular an assessment of institutional quality took is well designed, Asked about course, so that if they're do_ingpoorly Ihat allows departments to compare the concern over Ihe use of the test you can try to improve that course." to other departments nationwide is a Brown elaborated that "You don't good thing-· if it is used for its stated adjustaoUf5e.S- 01'1,_e- .)l8M-lo'¥ear_·",'PI:lrpose'~