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Friday, March 18, 1994 Tradition: This is the second part of a twopart series on hazing on college campuses. By College Press Service Hazing dates back to the origins ( the university in medieval Europe, tradition that continued with earl American university practices of tes ing incoming freshmen, as in makin .U?? :_1 J: ? uiciu wear apctiai ?in.uiunig i Larry Lunsford, director of student a fairs at Florida International Univei sity in Miami and a national hazin lecturer. But it wasn't until the turn of th century that hazing became an ac cepted fraternity and sorority practic< turning ugliest with the infusion c soldiers into colleges after World Wz II who harassed new fraternity merr bers as they had treated military r< cruits, he added. With a drop in Greek enrollment t the 1970s, combined with growing li igation and high monetary awards ii hazing death and injury cases, phys cal hazing practices became outlawei and began to decrease, Lunsford saic l oaay, Oreek memDersnip is pop ular among college students. The Na tional Interfraternity Council estima ed that its 63 member fraternitie have 400,000 undergraduate mem bers in the U.S. and Canada, am 200,000 women are members of th 26 sororities that make up the Na tional Panhellenic Conference. Th NIC doesn't keep hazing statistics Hazing isn't restricted to Gree groups. Fraternity and colleg spokespersons emphasized that sue! practices are notorious to other stc dent organizations such as ROTC bands, athletic teams, business org: nizations and even honor societies Abuses by Greeks may be more eas ny luciuiuauic ucLauac mciupcrs ui ten wear clothing with their organ zation's emblems, and the abuse ma take place at the group's designate house or property. While the incidence of physical test of pledges may be diminishing, "mer tal and psychological duress is on th increase," said Eileen Stevens, fbunde of the Committee to Halt Useless Co lege Killings ? CHUCK ? the nam Part-timers < By College Press Service WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. ? Part-timi instructors are an undeveloped re source in higher education an< should be encouraged rather than dis couraged for a variety of reasons, twi professors argue in a recent book ?M/ILnn rrts-xr* 1 AX imiuv llUUUV.IV/id UUilVV up lliv/il than one-third of the faculty in th< United States, although the percent age varies from institution to institu ji | For Ggddne I I 4304 Ft. Jack: I p use May Grt With your per B* Undergraduati Master Degi Phone Qrders with credit c s keep hazin of her 20-year-old son who died in M< 1978 from a hazing incident. Bind "Mental" hazing may consist of of hi _ pledges being forced to answer ques- Tc >f tions quickly, to take tests that have mus a no answers, and to endure verbal hu- that y miliation that may not result in death men t- but can take a great toll on new, im- said, g pressionable college students who are clud ? MOPf fn nlpasp th#?ir ripm ar?H fir in f. with a group, she said. of pi r. "These are emotional scars that will Gper g easy e "(Hazing is) nothing more > than an ego trip. The broth- Bind ers or sisters or athletes, the . So )f have ir group does it for an ego shor ; trip. They get a big rush, a ^ kick of exerting their pow- ^ n er over a lesser.'" give t- quai n t haps i- Andrew Robinson stant ^ University of New Hampshire mPn 1. scho >- orgaj i- St t* ^jl*ee be with those young people for the .. s rest of their lives," Stevens said. "Their e, i. 7 stead j self-esteem is shattered, their confi- . dence is shattered, they may drop out , .1 e of school. There have been reports of . eir L* suicide attempts." timf "Generally, hazing has moved away I" from the physical to the mental mind games, more like intimidation, t. ridicule, humiliation," said Andrew ^ Robinson, Greek adviser at the Uni!* versity of New Hampshire, whose stu'' dents last year provided much of the afe ( l" impetus for the state's new anti-haz- . ing law. ative "It's nothing more than an ego trip. . I The brothers or sisters or athletes, the activ group does it for an ego trip. They get H( J a big rush, a kick of exerting their ^ power over a 'lesser.'" her s Ron Binder, University of Georgia ton fraternity adviser, said as physical an(j\ e abuses have decreased, college offiT cials have turned their attention to caj ? [. mental testing, causing an evolution CXpe e in the definition of hazing. N Y. deserve respect, tion. Bu "TKa IniriCfklo VoaiiIHt. Tmr\i*/\\rinrr Q *?v iiMWiuiv i avuuj. 111II1? the Status of Part-timers in Higher Ed2 ucation," written by Judith Grappa, a professor of educational administra- t r tion at Purdue University, and David , Leslie, a professor of education at Florida State University, notes that col- contr c leges and universities have hired more ^acu'' - adjunct faculty in recent years to off- quali - set increasing costs and decreasing meni - budgets. entio ^ With Thh Recei m fr W video: ss sake at ki son Blvd. coupon expii ftown & Taxi VH V T T II %% from the L.G. 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A few ols have deferred their rush pes away from the fall1 semester to \ freshmen a chance to get ac- ^ nted with the campus and perbe less eager for the need of in: friendship that can make them ; vulnerable to hazing. And some ols have simply abolished Greek nizations. evens doesn't want to end the k system, which she said can provaluable campus leadership. Inl, her talks focus on ways that fra lues ana soronues can cnange attitudes and make pledging a for constructive, enriching work as developing projects that help charities, rather than periods of lse scrutiny and testing for poal members. e also reminds Greeks that their nizations were founded on the s of brotherhood, principles that iestroyed by hazing. Stevens ts out that hazing has given negimages to Greek groups that oney can repair by changing their ities. :r message hit home to a group )0 students who recently heard peak at Lafayette College in EasPa., where 72 percent of men Davi< 56 percent of women are mem of Greek organizations. The lo- /ri AE chapter paid Stevens' travel ICS nses from her home in Sayville, By Coll book says * protect recent < t that's not necessarily a negative Tests ;, the authors argue. ^ e found little to suggest that they bran(js -timers) are at the root of any sys- transmi : decline in the quality of higher the ation," the authors write. "To the conduc ary, we also found that part-time human IJ <UV, IUI Ult IIIU31 pal L, 5U[AlUiy IIIUICU < ified for their teaching assign- "Cun s, highly committed and consci- can obt >us about doing their jobs." taabou ; [f > Coupon ; ive A \ J* ee | m Rental | B :oger ! 1| res 3-25-94 I . 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