COLLEGE HAZING
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University or college hazing is popular in many tertiary institutions . Hazing , bastardisation , or as the English call it , fagging , involves initiates or juniors performing subservient , menial , degrading etc tasks . It may also involve corporal punishment , generally in the form of an initiation .
The aim of these practices was to bring about a degree of conformity and for " pledges " to pay a price for their admission to the larger body . Generally , authorities now frown upon these practices , partly for political correctness reasons and partly because they can be sued . Some of these activities put participants at considerable risk .
This page deals only with the use of paddles in the United States as it is relevant to the Spankoz site .
Student sues University of Toledo , sorority for $25,000
A
UT student is suing the Sigma
Gamma Rho sorority and UT for
$25,000 for injuries she said
resulted from a hazing incident
last March.
Along with the sorority, two
members of the UT chapter are
named in the lawsuit: Angelia
Brown, president of the
sorority; and Lydia Thomas.
Jonetta Reed, the plaintiff in
the lawsuit, alleged Brown and
Thomas possessed "a wooden
paddle instrument,"
according to the lawsuit, which
was filed March 1 in the Lucas
County Court of Common Pleas.
The lawsuit also says while
initiating Reed into the
sorority last March, "Brown
and Thomas repeatedly struck
Reed on the buttocks and
thighs."
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Reed also alleged "when the
abuse was reported to local and
national sorority, officials
constituted an act of gross
negligence that showed a
reckless disregard for the
rights and safety of
others."
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..... Roxanne Anzelc , The
Independent Collegian , March
14, 2005
