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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
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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
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"Mental" hazing may consist of of hi
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t- but can take a great toll on new, im- said,
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dence is shattered, they may drop out , .1
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"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. .
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group does it for an ego trip. They get H(
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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 ?
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deserve respect,
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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''
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ler said, calling it a "special form
irassment."
) combat these abuses, colleges
t have clear anti-hazing policies
are widely understood by group
ibers and potential pledges, he
University of Georgia efforts ine
educating pledges about their
s, sending letters to the parents
edges stating the school's policy,
ating a hazing hotline to make it
to report violations and offering
tymity to callers if necessary, and
ig enforcement of school rules,
ler said.
me national Greek organizations
: tried to limit pledge abuse by
tening the pledging period from
v weeks to just a few days. 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
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