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> From: Rodney Coates <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: FYI: The relevance of black greeks: hazing..
> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 13:19:19 -0500
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> FYI about Hazing ...
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> .... certainly this is something to think about ...
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> Did you know? In 1988 an 18-year-old Morehouse College
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> student died hours after eyewitnesses said he was
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> punched in the chest and slapped in the face during an
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> Alpha Phi Alpha pledging ritual.
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> Did you know? 1996, Kappa Alpha Psi agreed to pay
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> $2.25 million to the parents of a Southeast Missouri
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> State University student who died in 1994 after a
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> pledge ceremony, commonly called a "set" or "session."
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> Did you know? In 1991, two Phi Beta Sigma men at Clark
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> Atlanta University were accused by the Atlanta Police
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> Department of hitting three initiates on the buttocks
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> and kidney area with wooden paddle, resulting in the
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> hospitalization of one the men.
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> Did you know? On the same campus a year later, three
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> Omega Psi Phi members pleaded guilty to beating
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> another student with rubber tires and a wooden paddle.
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> Did you know? The first black fraternity, Sigma Pi
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> Phi, was formed in Philadelphia in 1904 as an
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> association of professionals in that city's African
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> American community. However, it was not until 1906
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> that the first black collegiate fraternity, Alpha Phi
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> Alpha, was founded on the campus of Cornell
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> University.
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> Did you know? That in 1997, because of hazing, Alpha
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> Phi Alpha no longer has its alpha chapter (original)?
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> Its prized Cornell chapter by Cornell University, the
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> Alpha Chapter's status as a recognized fraternity was
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> revoked and Cornell was attempted to sell the
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> chapter's house at 409 Elmwood Avenue. Due to a hazing
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> incident involving Sylvester Lloyd.
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> More details here.
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> http://www.deltasigmatheta.com/haze01.htm
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> Did you know? The University of Maryland at College
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> Park - 24 members of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity
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> chapter were arrested and charged with hazing after
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> six pledges are brutalized in a rite of initiation.
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> Police accounts reveal that the would-be members were
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> kicked, punched, beaten and whipped over a two-month
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> period, resulting in serious injuries requiring the
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> hospitalization of all of the victims. The most
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> seriously injured pledge suffered a ruptured spleen
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> and a collapsed lung, while another was treated for
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> liver damage, cracked ribs and a punctured eardrum
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> resulting in a 70-percent loss of hearing. Other
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> reported injuries among the six young men included a
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> fractured ankle and a concussion.
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> Did you know? Southern University, Baton Rouge, La. -
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> during an initiation meeting of prospective members, a
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> "big brother" of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity hits
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> 23-year-old Derone Walker over the head with a frying
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> pan, blinding him. Doctors are unsure whether Walker
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> will ever regain his sight.
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> Did you know? Cybil Thomas said repeated beatings of
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> her 20-year-old son in the name of brotherhood (by
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> LSU`s chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity)
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> left him with an open wound 7 inches around and a
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> half-inch deep on his buttocks that required two
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> surgeries, including a skin graft, to repair. In one
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> operation, the open wound, originally about 3 inches
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> around, was cleaned and the dead and damaged skin
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> removed. That left a wound more than 7 inches in
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> diameter, large enough to almost cover one buttock
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> cheek.
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> Did you know? Kent State University, Kent, Oh. - The
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> university is forced to ban black fraternity- and
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> sorority-sponsored dances and parties because of a
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> series of fights involving the Kappa Alpha Psi, Omega
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> Psi Phi and Phi Beta Sigma fraternity members.
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> Did you know? Kristin High, 22, and Kenitha Saafir,
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> 24, drowned September 9 at Dockweiler State Beach near
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> Playa del Rey. The women were both students at
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> California State University, Los Angeles, and were
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> pledging the Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) Sorority. High
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> was the mother of a 2-year-old and was engaged to be
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> married. Several members of the sorority were with
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> them that night, along with two other pledges,
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> according to the lawsuit by the High family. Saafir
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> and High were "blindfolded and tied by their hands and
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> their bodies and led into the rip tide conditions of
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> the ocean," the family's lawsuit says. "That night,
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> the waves were cresting at 6 to 8 feet and creating a
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> strong under-current resulting from rip-tide." The
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> sorority is presently being sued for 100 million
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> dollars.
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> ------------
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> Did you know? Joseph T. Green, 25, died after he
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> collapsed on the track of a local high school before
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> dawn on Jan. 29, 2001. Nashville medical examiner
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> Bruce Levy concluded last March that Green, who was
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> admitted to the hospital with a temperature of 103.7,
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> died of acute asthma and overheating after he was
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> ordered to jog and perform calisthenics during a
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> fraternity initiation. Consequently, a $15 million
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> lawsuit filed against Omega Psi Phi fraternity.
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> Did you know? Norfolk State University (Va.) - A
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> student pledging Omega Psi Phi complains about both
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> sides of his jaw being broken, and the chapter is
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> banned from campus. The university later suspends all
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> of its fraternities and sororities after widespread
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> reports of hazing continue.
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> Did you know? 1998, the Kappa Alpha Psi chapter at the
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> University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne
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> allegedly started an unauthorized initiation of five
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> new members, according to news accounts. The plan was
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> to schedule underground "pre-pledging" and
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> "post-pledging" processes before and after the
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> official MIP, which started at the end of February and
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> ended March 8. The underground pledging brought the
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> process to about eight weeks.
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> During pledging sessions, each Kappa would usually
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> paddle the new pledges three times, according to
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> newspaper accounts. Depending on how many alumni
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> brothers showed up for the fun, pledges were hit
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> anywhere between 15 and 45 times a night every night
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> for two months, according to those same accounts. The
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> five line-brothers, who had each paid about $500 in
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> dues, tried to remain steadfast. But Marcus Polk
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> finally went to a campus nurse, who discovered that
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> the Kappas had broken so many of the veins in his
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> backside that the pooling blood had coagulated into
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> huge lumps beneath his oozing, broken skin. He had a
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> life-threatening gangrene infection and was taken to
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> Peninsula Medical Center for surgery to remove two
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> 4-inch hunks of dead flesh from his behind, according
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> to news reports.
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> Did you know? According to the Los Angeles Times,
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> between 1975 and 1990 nine African American students
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> died during pledging rites associated with black
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> fraternities and sororities.
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> Did you know? A Phi Beta Sigma pledge at Michigan
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> State University suffered kidney damage after being
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> paddled in March. According to the Associated Press,
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> to avoid accusations of hazing, the chapter's
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> president claimed that the pledge was already a member
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> and had been voluntarily "trading wood" in a hitting
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> contest to see who was toughest.
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> Did you know? A Sigma pledge was treated in May after
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> being beaten at West Virginia University, where
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> another fraternity, Omega Phi Psi, had been banned for
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> hazing in 1996.
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> Did you know? An Alpha pledge was hospitalized at
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> Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where the chapter
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> had already received a five-year suspension for
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> beating a student in 1994. It was later discovered
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> that the brothers running the process were from an
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> entirely different campus and had never sent the
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> pledges` dues to Alpha headquarters.
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> Did you know? An Omega pledge was hospitalized after
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> being beaten at Mississippi State University in
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> February.
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> Did you know? A Delta Sigma Theta sorority pledge was
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> placed into an intensive care unit after she was hazed
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> at Norfolk State University in Virginia. In May, an
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> appeals court judge upheld Norfolk's decision to expel
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> nine Deltas involved in the incident. Two were just
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> weeks from graduation.
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> Did you know? In April, the Zeta Phi Beta sorority was
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> thrown off the University of South Florida campus for
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> four years after being charged with paddling pledges.
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> Did you know? Every year since 1970 in the United
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> States, at least one fraternity or sorority member or
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> pledge has died because of hazing or alcohol abuse,
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> said Hank Nuwer, author of the book "Wrongs of
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> Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing and Binge
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> Drinking."
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> Did you know? More than 40 states have outlawed
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> hazing. Large financial settlements have caught the
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> attention of Greek organizations and their college
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> sponsors, leading many universities to ban the groups
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> outright. More than 80 pledges have died in pledge
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> activities in the last 12 years during rites that
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> involved binge drinking, beatings and extreme physical
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> exertion.
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> Did you know? It is against federal law to haze
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> someone! You could lose your financial aid if you haze
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> someone else? Federal Hazing Prohibition Act of 2003
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> Did you know? Black fraternities and sororities in
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> this country are older than General Motors? Older than
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> AT&T. But have no real power because most black
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> fraternities and sororities are predicated on a lot of
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> craziness.
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>   rodneyc..
>
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