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**	College / University / Technology / Trade
***	Professional
****	Private Organization / Recreational Sports
*****	Military

*2003 Mepham High School, (Long Island, New York) Three varsity players have admitted roles in the attacks of three junior varsity players who were sodomized with broomsticks, pine cones and golf balls as part of a hazing rite during the football camp in Preston Park, PA. *2003 Lake-Lehman High School in Lehman (PA). September 23. Locker room hazing sent student to the hospital with a broken jaw and stitches in his chin. A sophomore was taped to a chair on wheel. Icy hot was placed in his eyes and hair. Older boys pushed the sophomore taped to the chair through a door way where the chair caught the door frame and flipped over. **2003 Lafayette, Louisiana Lafyette - University Members of the Louisiana Alpha chapter Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity suspension. The incident occurred in the fall 2003 semester when members hosed down pledges with water and deprived them of sleep, according to Pat Cottonham, associate dean of students and director of Greek Affairs. "Students were required to arrive at the fraternity house at an early hour, 4 o'clock in the morning," Cottonham said. "The university considered that to be a sleep deprivation. They were hosed with water hoses. We don't believe that they were eating and sleeping the way they should have." ****2003 Private Organization The Santa Clara County (California) An incident in which members of a Yuba County sheriff's SWAT team allegedly tried to sexually assault one of their colleagues in a Morgan Hill motel room as part of a hazing ritual. The alleged victim, Deputy Chad Ellis, filed a claim against Yuba County this week alleging that a lieutenant, three sergeants and three deputies were involved in the incident Sept. 24, 2003. *2003 Ohio Woodridge High School Soccer players had their heads forced into toilets. *****2003 Military Dallas (Texas) On the day he died, U.S. Marine Sgt. Billy William Lowry recruiter was ordered to drive approximately 335 miles Marines serving at Little Rock Air Force Base say Lowry was being subjected that day to a form of punishment they call "death drives," "pain drives" or "suicide drives," according to interviews and an internal Marine memo provided to the Houston Chronicle. **2003 St. John's University (New York) Three St. John's University graduates accused of beating Brian Chambers several times with a wooden paddle during the summer of 2003. (Newsday.com) ***2003 Professional Firefighter (Florida) was bound with plastic handcuffs during an apparent firehouse hazing incident. Victim was treated for post traumatic stress disorder. She claimed to have been ostracized by some of her fellow firefighters as a result of the incident. **2003 University of New York at Plattsburgh, Walter Dean Jennings died of acute water intoxication during a pledge ceremony in which he was forced to drink alcohol and ingest enough water to make his lungs collapse, a condition normally found in drowning victims. *2003 North Carolina Wayne County High School Bob Meeker's parents say that Bob was repeatedly hazed with what is called a red belly. **2003 Port Washington High School (Wisconsin) Seven students have been cited for disorderly conduct in a hazing incident. Prank got out of hand. Cheerleaders took part along with boys. Some were bound to trees with duct tape and had things like syrup and eggs dumped on them. **2003 University Michigan U-M suspends fraternity for hazing incident. By Maryanne George Free Press Ann Arbor Bureau September 24, 2003 Sigma Chi, one of the oldest fraternities at the University of Michigan, was kicked off campus Tuesday following a hazing incident that sent a pledge to the hospital with kidney failure, officials said. U-M spokeswoman Julie Peterson said the young man was part of an eight-member pledge class. During the week of Sept. 8, he was deprived of food and water and forced to do calisthenics. The incident was discovered when the youth's mother told officials her son had been hospitalized with muscle breakdown that led to acute kidney failure, Peterson said. **2003 Long Island, New York Bay Shore High School A medium-sized town located on Long Island in New York, experienced a case of hazing. The varsity boy's volleyball team had twenty-four boys on the team, twelve freshmen, one sophomore, ten juniors, and one senior. Four of the juniors and a senior were kicked off the team for physical and verbal threats to the freshmen on the team. The five players would hit and punch the freshmen, claiming it was their birthday, or so they said. They were charged for threatening to beat the underclassmen up if they messed up during practice or in the games, although none of the teammates heard the threats. The five boys were kicked off the team and suspended from school. The school had also considered disallowing the boys to join any other sports. The students also faced a punishment of going to sensitivity classes, where they filled out papers stating what they are proud of, whom they idolize, things they would like to change, etc. They also were instructed to write a short paper on what their definition of a bully is and compared themselves to one. (www.newsday.com)