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Wednesday, March 16,1994
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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
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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.
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"Kids tell me there is still
t Mis- hazing. They may be mini
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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."
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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
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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
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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. They may be minimizing
it or doing something they think is
less dangerous, but it still happens. It
can claim a life. It can ruin a family."
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