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Georgia's ha By College Press Service Ron Binder is about the last person a party-hearty University of Georgia fraternity brother wants to see standing on the front steps of the fraternity house at 3 a.m. For bleary-eyed fraternity men, the appearance of the hastily Blnrlar r* r?n r\n 1 \ r moon Af\A Ultddtu UI11UU vail v/mjr luvaii vuv thing: Somebody called the Hazing Hotline. Binder, the university's fraternity ..adviser, has to be one of the most Respected, yet most feared, officials 3o the 2,000 fraternity brothers on Campus. # An anonymous phone call to his !24-hour hotline, which played a ?Jcey role in cracking two major hazJing incidents at Georgia this past Spring, can make or break a frater? Sigma Phi Epsilon received a Jfive-year suspension from the campus when an underage pledge almost died from guzzling nearly a fifth of whiskey. 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Be zing hotline 1 severely inflamed buttocks result- 1 ing from a paddling incident. 1 The hotline, which is a phoneline ] to Binder's Greek Life office dur- i ing the day and to his home in the i evenings, has caught the attention I of other university officials throughout the country who want i to use it as a model. 1 "I know Auburn has one, and I Florida, Florida State and Indiana i University are seriously thinking i about it," Binder said. Binder said he doesn't mind being roused from a sound sleep by worried brothers, parents and girlfriends. His wife is not thrilled about the phone calls, he said, but for him, it's all part of the job. If he can interrupt a hazing incident or any other misconduct, he doesn't mind the lack of sleep. The success of the Hazing Hotline ? Binder has received as many as 10 calls in one pledge period ? is because Binder promises anonymity to callers. He investigates as many as six incidents a month. "We tell them we don't need names. 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"I really got the idea from my " D f-ni/4 "Cho ho/1 O lllUUl^I, UlllUWl daiu. jilt nau ct v friend whose son was joining a fra- f ternity elsewhere in the country, and he called my mom about some things he was worried about. She advised him to call the dean's office at his school. But they told him that he had to identify himself." Binder said that few of the hotline calls are bogus. However, some callers don't take the time to stay on the phone and give him enough information to follow up with the fraternity. The calls that Binder receives usually come in after an incident. However, Binder has received calls about incidents about to happen, and that's when he makes an appearance at the fraternity house. "We try to make certain the complaint is credible," Binder said. "Then we document the phone call ] E Yc T < You've got ( your roomn You don't m there's Bar, With Rarpa writing priv account to j Plus, and tl A BARGAIi MONTHLY BALANCE But wait, th any new Ba August 23-! TTlPYfl^rrl TT5 X 1V/VVJU1 U XX for all kinds Hey, college bargain. You must apply and qualiiy for Flex n ties in line >efore we say anything to the fraernity." Mark Scobee, president of Pi Cappa Alpha fraternity, called Jinder's hotline a "double-edged word," and though most fraternity nen on the campus support it, it ran leave fraternities vulnerable to alse charges. "It has really helped to stop hazng at the university, but you can >et phony calls," Scobee said. 'They don't ask your name, you enow. But I think Ron has a good feel for what he should believe and vhat he shouldn't." Scobee said fraternity presidents it the university are strongly apposed to hazing, and "It has been leading that way for a while." The Hazing Hotline telephone lumber is widely published throughout the university. It is sent to residential assistants, faculty and is even distributed to residential tiomes and businesses that are situated within a block of a fraternity iiouse. 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