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Wednesday, March 16,1994 Despite k This is the first part of a two-pi ties on hazing on college compose By College Press Service Michael Davis hoped that on he might win a Pulitzer Prize fi porting, a dream that was cut cally short by a beating alleged ministered by his own frate brothers. Davis, 25, a junior in journ; * and a staff writer at the Southeas souri State University's student i paper, The Capaha Arrow, died 15 of blunt trauma to the head, pa Alpha Psi pledges told polia Davis had collapsed while run through a gauntlet of punche; football field. Instead of being t to the hospital, he was carried off-campus apartment in Cap rardeau, Mo., where he died. Family members said it wasn' first time Davis had been beaten they had begged the young m; give up pledging for the fraterni 1 ter he returned home one day scratch on his nose. "When I asked him why he wa to pledge this fraternity, he said, when you're pledged, you hai take it,'" his mother, Edith Davis, reporters. As of Feb. 23, seven fraternity r bers had been charged with invc tary manslaughter and hazing, t others face charges, and six ak fraternity members were charged hazing, said Ann Hayes, the uni\ ty's news bureau director. Polio continuing their investigation. A Feb. 22 memorial service held on campus. "I think the w campus here is mourning the de Hayes said. Davis was a dedicated student a bright future in newspapers, seemed to know where he was g and what he was doing in jour ism," Hayes said. University President Kala Strou] dered the Kappa Alpha Psi cha: permanently banished from cam The group had been suspende 1988 for a year because of haz As the recent incident shows, i ing is alive and well in American leges and universities. Although p ical punishment actually has beei the wane in recent years as a re of increased awareness and pros tion, more insidious, "invisible" n tal abuse of fraternity and sore ) FREE REFRESHMENTS ? . LA' e ? ? 1 0 ? FR 1 BLATTI I g New Hours o * Monday - F g Saturday ? Sunday ^ These extendt w U.S. Depai E USC i PC w W ^ FREE REFRESHMENTS l I CALL IF YOU NEED US.. ESISHlJHESEnS It is illegal i Violation of thesi Ensuring youi Help us Smoke,I iws, hazing sti jrt se- pledges continues. s. Stiffer, anti hazing regulations in recent years ? 38 states outlaw it ? have made a difference in deterring e day physical abuse of pledges, said Larry or re- Lunsford, director of student affairs tragi- at Florida International University in ly ad- Miami. rnity "Kids tell me there is still t Mis- hazing. They may be mini "1CWS- 1 [ Feb mizing it or doing someKap thing they think is less danming 8erous' but shll happens. s at a It can claim a life. It can ru:aken in a family." to an e GiEileen Stevens ^ founder of C.H.U.C.K. in to tyafrith a Until the last 20 years, incidents in which pledges were publicly humiliuted atec*> paddled, forced to consume of'Ma, ten deadly amounts of alcohol, beatre to en to death or deprived of sleep and told weren't unusual, he said. Lunsford, who has lectured nanem tionally about ha2ing, said physical >lun- punishment hasn't been completely hree eliminated. imni "Undoubtedly, some practices have with g?ne underground or behind closed rersi- doors," he said, adding that most haz: are in8 now involves verbal abuse of pledges. was "Things have gone underground hole on many campuses because national ath ? fraternities have taken very strong, positive steps to eliminate it (haz^th fog)." said Eileen Stevens, founder of "He d*e Committee to Halt Useless Coloing ^cge Killings, C.H.U.C.K., the name of nal- ^er 20-year-old son who died in 1978 from alcohol poisoning and exposure 3 or_ in a hazing incident at Alfred Univerpter sit7in New York. s She estimates there have been 60 d jn hazing deaths since 1975, a figure jng that she admits may not be correct ? "heran?*? cr? manv on> naz- - > ? coj. as accidents," just as her son's death ^ys. initially was reported. Hazing is also 1 on hard to detect because membership ;sujt in many organizations includes oaths ecu. of silence, she said. ien. Those oaths, coupled with a strong ,rity need to belong to a group, often are GIVEAWAYS OPEN VOLLEYBALL R rE NIGHT A 'HE BLATT ID AY, MARCH 18 RE. CENTER 8-11 of Operation (Effective 3/14/94): riday : 7:00 am -11:00 pm 10:30 am - 9:00 pm 10:30 am - 11:00 pm xJ hours are funded in part by a grant from the rtment of Education in conjunction with the Office of Alcohol and Drug Programs. Sponsored by: fice of Campus Recreation and ffice of Alcohol & Drug Program* GIVEAWAYS OPEN VOLLEYBALL FI For your safety, 23 Emergency across the University of Soutli ==?I identification, the biright yell< I emergency use only and are lo< in the USC Lightways Map wh USC Student Government. I To operate the Emergency ca I button in the upper right hand < connected directly to the Univei you are unable to communicate exact location and a police _J dismtrh#^ fa tknt Iaaohaa I | r-?wnvu IV U1(U iWttUVII. The call boxes are intended ONLY. Use these boxes in tl which you might use the Emerg in progress, or that have ji emergencies, or threat to per: activities which should be repor under South Carolina State Law (SC Cot to vandalize a call box to give false alarms on a call box s codes may result in imprisonment for not 1 or payment of a fine not less than $200.00. r safety is a partnership between you and ; help you. Don't abuse or misuse these c Die.it'sThi HOie 6am ill common more compelling to young people than publicly revealing the truth about the humiliation suffered at the hands of older fraternity members. At the University of Central Florida, three young men wanted to be part of a group, having pledged to become members of a fraternity, but they didn't expect to undergo a series of tests that included being hung upside down, blindfolded and urinated on hv seven nf their Kmthprc ic o t*?ct of worthiness. UCF suspended the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter from participating in any campus activities until fall 1994, when it will be considered for reinstatement, UCF Spokesman Dean McFall said. Five of the men who participated in the off-campus hazing were suspended from school for one to three semesters, McFall said, adding that this was the first time UCF has suspended any student group for hazing since the school opened in 1968. "It speaks to the fact that we have not been plagued by problems," McFall said. "It was important that the university take a vigorous position." SAE also imposed penalties on the chapter: Four men were expelled from the fraternity, 40 were suspended from membership until they graduate, and the remaining 50 members will undergo a "re-education" program that includes information about gender sensitivity, leadership, alcohol responsibility and hazing, said Michael Stroup, alumni commission chairman for SAE's Florida chapter. The fraternity's intention is to rebuild a chapter that once was nominated as one of the best in the rnnn try, Stroup said, adding that die three pledges who were hazed remain with the UCF chapter. But even with state laws, stricter college enforcement and self-policing by fraternities, the practice continues, usually in conjunction with alcohol consumption, Stevens said. \ "It's happening," said Stevens, who regularly lectures student groups about hazing. "You can be sure when I'm invited to a campus that there's a concern there. Kids tell me there is still hazing. 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