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****2004 PATCHOGUE, Private Organization (New York) A man was shot in the face and killed during a Masonic initiation ceremony by a fellow member who mistakenly pulled out a real pistol instead of a blank gun, police said Tuesday. The 76-year-old man who fired the shot was charged with manslaughter. William James, 47, was killed Monday night at the Southside Masonic Lodge. *2004 High School Sudbury, (MA) A freshman broke his wrist in an apparent hazing incident; Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School officials are looking for ways to curb initiation rites among some Boston students in the school's desegregation program. *2004 Chicago High School Hockey Team (Blackhawks) A Chicago-area youth hockey parent was implicated in a hazing incident in which a 13-year old player's head was forced into a toilet. (Columbia Chronicle.com Nov. 15, 2004) *2004 Illinois High School In September, a freshman football player at Sandwich High School had his spleen removed after several upperclassmen hit and tackled a group of freshmen, police and school officials said. **2004 The Vanderbilt University (Tenn) Chapter of Phi Delta Theta has been suspended for three years for hazing its pledges last semester. David Williams, Vanderbilt's vice chancellor for student life and general counsel, declined to offer many specifics but said the fraternity pleaded guilty at a conduct hearing Wednesday to ''a number of counts'' of hazing on more than one occasion. *2004 High School St. Pauls School in Concord, New Hampshire has suspended a group of seniors girls from the prestigious prep school for allegedly forcing new female students to participate in hazing rituals. Some students were forced to simulate oral sex and swallow whipped cream while other students were asked sexually explicit questions. *2004 Indiana Griffith High School Athletic team members accused of hazing younger player. Apparently, a girl soccer player passed by boys junior varsity players taped to a tree on her way home and reported the incident. Griffith students posted signs and created T-shirts in support of the suspended athletes. *2004 MA Taunton High School Upperclassmen kicked off the team and suspended from school for an incident in which they urinated and defeated on the uniforms and equipment of freshmen players. *2004 Erie, Pennsylvania Alleged Hazing of High School Students. Allegations of an alleged high school hazing incident are now surfacing in Millcreek Township. School Superintendent Verel Salmon said he can't comment but sources tell us that the school system and the Millcreek Board of Education are investigating an alleged serious hazing incident which involved some members of the varsity wrestling team. *2004 Machester High School (New Hampshire) Mayor Robert Baines yesterday blasted an interpretation of a school athletic code that has three Memorial High School hockey players still on ice, despite misdemeanor charges following a spree of mailbox vandalism last month. While saying he was not talking specifically about the incident, Baines said he helped craft conduct rules while a principal at Manchester High School West--and that they were meant to include infractions committed by athletes outside of school. "This is definitely absurd," Baines said of an interpretation that has school officials saying they cannot act against the players -- one the team captain. **2004 University (Illinois) Several students have come forward with claims of underground hazing incidents, NIU Judicial Director Larry Bolles said. As a result, Bolles said the Judicial Office currently is investigating several campus organizations. Bolles said he could not go into specific detail about the allegations because of privacy issues but said the activities the students described included physical and mental strain. Although some students identify hazing as acts that cause injury or other harm, what actually qualifies as hazing is a lot closer to what some might consider normal activity, Bolles said. ****2004 Private Organization Georgia Savannah Country Day School Hazing episode involved physical contact and humiliation according to Country Day parents who have called the Morning News. Sex crimes investigator Sgt. Harry Trawick is handling the case. *2004 Wilmington, University of North Carolina Women's swimming team will be removed form probation while school officials reconsider allegations of hazing by upperclassmen. Freshmen made wear unusual clothes, had their faces painted and participated in various activities, including a scavenger hunt. Alcohol is believed to be involved. *2004 High School (Louisiana) October 4 - Alleged hazing a Denham Spring High School. A sophomore enters his locker room at the field house to dress out for football practice. He notices a liquid in front of his locker, in his locker and on his practice uniform including helmet and shoulder pads. The liquid was urine put on by other team members. The victim eventually transferred to another school. *2004 Middle School (MI) Two state senators have introduced legislation that would add Michigan to the 43 states where hazing is illegal. The law also would punish school employees who condone hazing, if a12-year-old whose leg was broken during a tackling drill organized by his football coaches has his way. Garret, a seventh-grader who stands 4-feet-11 and weighs 85 pounds, broke his leg Oct. 28 after a boy a year older, almost a foot taller and 45 pounds heavier slammed into him from five yards away. *2004 Plum High School (PA) Plum Coach Suspended Over Dumpster Hazing. A high school principal said she suspended the school's rifle coach because the woman encouraged the behavior of students involved in an alleged hazing incident. Plum High School rifle coach Debbie Bell was taken off the job last month after a student's parents complained about their son being tossed in a Dumpster, Channel 4's Michelle Wright reported. *2004 High School Chesapeake (VA) Chesapeake police are cracking down on hazing at Western Branch High School. Seven upperclassmen and one former student were charged in recent weeks in connection with the Sept. 8 "initiation" of three younger students, who were driven to a field, pelted with eggs and splashed with urine from a portable toilet. **2004 University California San Diego State fraternity and sorority members held a candlelight vigil last night for Douglas Running DeWitt, who was found dead early Saturday at his campus fraternity house. **2004 University Michigan The University began investigating allegations into such hazing activities against seven chapters of the Greek community. One hazing incident in the Greek community allegedly involved clothes being ripped off intoxicated sorority pledges, who were then led into a room with intoxicated members of a fraternity's pledge class where there may have been widespread sexual activity. **2004 University Virginia Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity is under investigation after a student sustained cuts, abrasions and bruises at the SAE house late last Thursday/early Friday morning. According to Vice President of Student Affairs Sam Sadler, the student suffered head injuries and received medical treatment at Williamsburg Community Hospital *2004 Valdosta, Georgia 14 years old freshman at Lowndes High School band student allegedly. At the Georgia Bridgemen, 'band camp' prior to the start of school, the freshmen are called 'Bridgies'. The victim's family say's that there is a tradition' on day one of band camp that a senior 'buys' a freshman. The Victim's mother stated that her son had a leather dog collar put on him, attached a chain leash and led him around the field during band practice, in full view of the directors and students. (Reported Incident - MASH) *2004 Lower Pottsgrove Township High School (PA). Several student athletes have been thrown off the football team and have been suspended from an alleged hazing incident at Saint Pius X Catholic High School. **2004 Riverside University (CA) Suit filed in alleged UCR hazing, 20-year-old Banaag was hospitalized with a lacerated liver in what his suit characterized as a hazing incident gone awry. **2004 Colorado State University Sept 6 death of Samantha Spady, 19 of Beatrice, Neb. She was found dead in a fraternity house. She died of alcohol poisoning after consuming at least 30 drinks in 11 hours. **2004 SDS University (CA) De Witt, a junior, found dead in Delta Sigma Phi fraternity after a night of partying with frat members. Reason for death unknown. *2004 High School Webster New York Seniors charged in hazing incident. Three Webster County High School seniors have been charged with felonies in connection with an alleged hazing incident. **2004 Arizona University (AZ) UA Women's lacrosse caught hazing. Team put on probation for banana 'blow job' The women's lacrosse team was charged with hazing after a team member reported she had to act out a blow job on a banana. Chimes Junior Honorary was also accused of hazing this semester after a passer-by saw members of Chimes running around with blindfolds and jumping into the fountain at Old Main late at night and reported it to the Dean of Students Office **2004 Indiana Wabash College Sigma Chi fraternity member alleged hazing incident that he nearly died after a hazing incident. He says he was forced to consume alcohol at a dose that could have been lethal. **2004 College (Massachusetts) Holy Cross suspends rugby team 5 years for hazing - Booze-fueled hazing - hijinks at the College of the Holy Cross that left one plebe hospitalized has led school officials to ban the rugby team from campus for five years." It was alcohol-related," Dean of Students Jacqueline D. Peterson said. Administrators at the Worcester College wouldn't say exactly what the club team did to deserve the ban, which was handed down just before final exams in December. **2004 New York Skidmore College hockey team punished for an office campus hazing where freshmen were forced to consume large amounts of alcohol. *2004 High School New Jersey Colonia High School in Woodbridge accused of hazing. 17 and 18 year old allegedly victimized 16 years old. Details on the incident weren't disclosed. ******2004 Occupational (New York) Restaurant Business At a French restaurant in Manhattan, South Carolina chef Damian Freidank reveal a man dressed in chef's whites, peeling peas from a large bucket. Freidank looked to his guide, a celebrity chef, for an explanation. Industry (food) and Diner 24 in New York. He speaks of sauce pans rifled at his head, being ordered to sit in a back room in silence, and being routinely berated in front of guests. Freidank says he saw Disney chefs heat up plates in ovens to what he calls "raging hot" levels, then leaving them for certain servers to burn themselves, and staffers ordered not to speak for specified periods. Each new Disney transfer got hazed, he adds, as did employees on their final shift. That might include "tarring and feathering" with ingredients such as batter, salad dressing, and flour, or the bizarre baptism he witnessed at the Grand Floridian Cafe, during which a staffer spent a half-hour filling a massive bain-marie with ice, only to have a gang of co-workers pick the man up and throw him in it. **2004 Montclair State University (NJ) 19 members of a fraternity was charged with hazing eight pledges. (WPVI.com) Pledges were made to turn and roll in the mud in the dark near a 100-foot drop in the Wildcat Ridge Wildlife Management Area. Police say someone could have easily fallen. *2004 High School (Texas) 16 Boys Punished For Hazing Sharyland school officials have announced the students accused of hazing will be punished by the school. One boy showed police his bruises, and filed charges against five members of the Sharyland's boys swim team. School officials did their own investigation, and they now say the boys will be disciplined. There is no word yet on whether the swim coach will be disciplined as well. School officials say this is a personnel matter *2004 High School Lancaster (PA.) The coach of Warwick High Schools boys and girls swimming teams has resigned and five boy swimmers have been kicked off the team following a harassment incident against younger members of the boys team. Coach Chad Felty, the teams swimming coach for about five years, was suspended initially following the mid-January hazing incident at a practice session at the Lititz Community Center, school officials said. After an investigation by school district officials, Felty was informed he would be reinstated. But he chose to resign, citing personal reasons, according to Terry A. Kauffman, the high schools athletic director. The school board accepted Feltys resignation Tuesday. **2004 University of Iowa officials have suspended a campus fraternity chapter for five years after an alcohol-related hazing incident sent a student to a local hospital. (Tom Owen, The Gazette) *2004 Central Cabarrus High School Charlotte (NC) Two players kicked off team, suspended from school following. hazing incident has left a high school baseball team vying for the playoffs without two of their starters. **2004 Tennessee Frisk University The allegation involved a hazing incident that happened off campus. Officials said a pledge was beaten on the buttocks with a paddle so severely that he was unable to walk immediately after the incident. **2004 Washington University Suspends the Sigma Chi fraternity. The release followed a story about the party in Wednesday's edition of the campus student newspaper. Accompanying photographs and linked videos showed fraternity members and pledges dunking their heads in what was said to be ice water and being pelted by small objects as they performed skits. The story described the skits as "raucous" and "sexually-charged." **2004 University of Washington Suspension of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. The fraternity had a number of other violations from the summer, including underage drinking and possession of eight kegs of alcohol. **2004 A fraternity at Southern Arkansas University has been suspended while university officials investigate reports of hazing after a student was hospitalized. **2004 University Hawaii An engineering student of Mapua Institute of Technology is now fighting for his life in the hospital after he was severely beaten during hazing rites in Sampaloc, Manila, late last week. Doctors at the United Doctors Medical Center (UDMC) were trying their best to save the life of Benjie Quinit, who sustained severe body injuries and massive internal bleeding that nearly reduced him to a pulp. **2004 Arizona State University Pi Kappa Alpha Photos showing apparent hazing of male students were anonymously delivered to the ASU Office of Greek Life. *2004 High School (AZ) A case of high school hazing in southern Arizona, has landed an athlete in handcuffs. The suspect is from Buena High school in Sierra Vista. The attack happened on the volleyball team bus after a game at Mountain View High School, in the Marana School District. The 17-year-old suspect is accused of leading an assault on a 16-year-old player. Among the charges, felony assault and felony public sexual indecency with a minor. **2004 University SDSU Bakersfield (CA) San Diego State University suspended its Kappa Alpha PSI fraternity chapter for hazing. **2004 Colorado State University Gordie Bailey was pledging Chi Psi fraternity in Boulder when he and two dozen others were taken to Gold Hill, at 9000 feet, to drink bottles of whiskey and sweet wine. Bailey, a lacrosse players, was found dead in the fraternity house the next morning. **2004 University of Old Miss (Mississippi) Police Department officers caught members of Phi Psi fraternity at 12 a.m. with their paints down. Wearing only boxer shorts, fraternity pledges were tied to a tree in 55-degree weather at the University Golf Club. *2004 High School Evansville, Indiana Criminal complaints filed against the three 18-year-old suspects allege two of them held down a younger boy, while a third suspect pulled down the eighth grader's pants. **2004 Five University of Michigan fraternities and two sororities are being investigated for allegedly holding dangerous rites of booze-fueled hazing earlier this month. One of those fraternities, which U-M officials declined to name, already has been placed on suspension by its national organization. **2004 University of Oklahoma Blake Adam Hammontree was found dead at a University of Oklahoma fraternity house. His Blood alcohol content was .42, more than five times the legal limit. ******2004 Memphis, Tennessee Occupational hazing A national fire training expert says the eight-hour training session called "Hell Night" that left a recruit in a coma is nothing short of hazing. **2004 University of Arkansas Student Bradley Barrent Kemp died after drinking beer, taking two prescription drugs and possible smoking marijuana. *2004 Middle School Evan Dawson (Rochester, NY) 1/14/05 - Greece police are still investigating allegations of sexual assault involving a 12-year-old wrestler. Medical reports show the student making the claims was injured, but the district has concluded its investigation. School leaders say the incident was horseplay that got out of hand and have disciplined the students involved. *2004 Schenley High School Pennsylvania A soccer captain receive a long term suspension for hazing a sophomore player. The senior, cut the other players hair against his will as punishment for missing a practice. **2004 University Louisiana Tech The summons accuses Clayton Flurry, the president of Tech's chapter of Kappa Alpha Order, of forcing pledges to strip to their underwear before being sprayed with cold water in 34-degree temperatures. That's according to Ruston police spokesman Sergeant Curtis Hawkins. **2004 University of Oklahoma President David L. Boren said in a press conference he believes the death of Blake Adam Hommontree was alcohol-related. The social activities of Sigma Chi fraternity house is now under suspension. *2004 High School Florida The Buchholz Boys' Soccer team was two hours away in Tallahassee, when school officials say a boy new to the team was put through an initiation ritual. Buchholz High School Assistant Principal Will Calsam says the prank was "an inappropriate act with sexual overtones." Beyond that, few details are being released. *2004 High School Florida Over at Gainesville High School, five basketball players, including three starters, were suspended from school and last Friday night's game after the coach and principal decided they violated team rules. The alleged GHS hazing incident took place December 28 on a holiday tournament trip to St. Petersburg. Coach Tony Wise says they handled the investigation internally and all the students are now back in school. **2004 Texas A&M University A possible hazing violation stemming from an incident in which members of the Corps of Cadets bound a fellow cadet with duct tape. (The Brian College Station Eagle) **2004 Texas A&M University A cadet form corps outfit F-2 received eight stitches in his left index finger after a incident in which seniors from the outfit bound him with duct tape, Corps of Cadets Commandant John Van Alstyne said. (Brett Nauman, Eagle Staff Writer) **2004 Howland High School, Ohio Ray Crawford 18, wrestler team, charged with gross sexual imposition a fourth degree felony. The charge was reduced after a series of deliberations between the prosecution and defense. **2004 University of Michigan is investigating four fraternities and two sororities and Michigan State University Greeks are rewriting rules of conduct, amid concerns that hazing and parties are putting students and the time-honored tradition of fraternal groups on campus at risk. (Marisa Schultz/The Detroit News) **2004 University Sig Ep, Delta Sigma Pi at NCSU are under investigation. While the three frats in question were all found guilty of hazing, no individual member was charged with a crime or infraction of the code, according to Cousins. **2004 University Lafayette Louisiana The investigation showed that pledges to Phi Kappa Theta had been asked by fraternity members to "exercise" in the early morning hours, and one of the pledges suffered an asthma attack. In March, the university also announced that the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter would be banned for two years following a 2003 incident in which pledges were hosed down with water and deprived of sleep. **2004 Military Camp Lejeune Marine pleaded guilty during a special court-martial to charges that he participated in a gang assault against a new member of their command. The Government dismissed a drunk and disorderly charge in a pretrial agreement. **2004 College ATHENS, Georgia A student was severely burned during a fraternity drinking ritual when an oil lantern ignited a bottle of nearly pure grain alcohol, police said. William Flynn Miller IV, 21, a senior at the University of Georgia, was drinking with other students at the Lambda Chi Alpha frat house early Tuesday, police said. The bottle of 190-proof alcohol ignited and set Miller's clothes on fire. When officers arrived, the skin was hanging off his fingers, chest, abdomen, side and back, police said. He was hospitalized with third-degree burns. His injuries did not appear to be life-threatening. **2004 University of Wisconsin Beta Theta Pi fraternity members were allegedly forced to kneel with pillowcases over their heads while scantily clad sorority women poured flavored syrup and whipped cream on them. *2004 Tennessee Roane County High School "The last few months we've been following accusations of hazing at a Roane County High School" according to WVLT Volunteer TV's Eric Waddell. **2004 Pennsylvania Muhlenberg College Officials at the Allentown college suspended Alpha Epsilon Pi one day after the fraternity's national headquarters suspended the group for incidents that reportedly occurred during new-member initiations. *2004 Illinois Glenbrook North High School A group of seniors at Glenbrook North High School outside Chicago were caught on tape by a fellow classmate allegedly beating junior girls and covering them with mud, feces, pig entrails, garbage, and paint. Part of an annual powder puff touch football game held between girls in the senior and junior classes as a rite of passage for incoming seniors, the incident caused a firestorm of controversy, bringing the topic of high school hazing into the limelight. **2004 University of Indiana Men's cross country team. Eight arrested. The Office of Students Ethics will look over the case and decide whether to pursue the incident as a possible hazing. *2004 Rochelle Township High School, Illinois Cheerleaders allowed to cheer even though an investigation is still under way over an alleged hazing while they were at Northern Illinois University for a cheerleading camp. ****2004 Recreational Sports Massapequa (NY) Reported hazing, players bound with tape and smudged with peanut butter at an upstate summer camp. **2004 FS-University Tallahassee Florida The ritual of shaving freshman football players heads can be remembered as far back as the 1950's and still done to this day. **2004 Indiana Occupational Teen report workplace hazing. Two teen girl's accused fellow employees of a Water Park of hazing, by having whipped cream, cleaning solution and salad dressing poured on their bodies. ****2004 Recreational Sports Connecticut Treadwell Park A mother, Maryann Barrett, saw eight or ten big guys grabbed this young girl counselor and carried her some distance to a mud pit they had prepared on the baseball field - they began shaking her, dropped her into the mud, rolled her around and then they poured a 20-gallon jug of cold water onto her. She was further dismayed to hear the activity was regarded as a camp tradition - a fat that was not denied by the town Parks and Recreation director. *2004 Mission San Jose High School California Swim team hazing. A member was forced to have his head shaved, an act Principal Stuart knew labeled hazing. The Argus report chronicled hazing on the championship swim team that extends at least a decade. *2004 University of Idaho Phi Delta Theta Fraternity could not participate in university programs or Interfraternity Council activities. That came after the national chapter imposed 13 sanctions, including a $ 1,000 payment to the national group. **2004 Concord New Hampshire Plymouth State University student, Kelly Nester, killed during suspected 2003 hazing incident. The Nester family's lawsuit, filed (2004) in Grafton County Superior Court, accuses the school and three other sorority sisters of failing to ensure the safety of Nester and other pledges. **2004 North Dakota North High School The alleged incident involving seniors paddling incoming sophomores to the point that at least one was badly bruised, occurred sometimes after school let out for the summer. It was not on school property, **2004 Louisiana Loyola University Loyola officials said disciplinary notices have been sent to students who appealed punishments handed out by Loyola's Board of Review in April, but wouldn't discuss results, saying they were guarding students' privacy. A suit is pending. **2004 Denton Texas University Michael Ramsey was found unconscious about 1 a.m. He was treated at Denton Community Hospital and released. *****2004 Military Air Force Academy, Florida Douglas L. Meester of Marco Island, Florida, was accused of assaulting a fellow cadet in Oct. 2002 during a night of heavy drinking in a dorm room. He was originally charged with rape, sodomy, incident assault and providing alcohol to a minor. An 18-year-old freshman from PA who was in the dorm said she passed out and awoke as Meester raped her, but defense attorneys say she never told him to stop and did not resist after drinking at least six shots of tequila. **2004 Military American soldiers. Irqi POW'S hooded and draped stands on a box, his limbs attached to electrical wire. Naked men configured in a macabre version of a cheerleading pyramid, an Iraqi prisoner being forced to simulate oral sex on another man. All was accompanied by the grinning, gleeful faces of the American soldiers evidently proud of their work. (Where did these servicemen and women get such sick and twisted ideas?) (Suzy Hansen, www.salon.com) **2004 Military Four Boise Norfolk-based submarine sailors punished for hazing. Have been punished for hazing a fellow sailor at a supply warehouse. The victim was wrapped in duct tape and placed in a cardboard box at a supply warehouse. The victim attempted to free himself from the tape using a pocket knife. In the process, he cut his hand and was eventually taken to the hospital. **2004 Piedmont Hills High School (CA) Varsity football players hazing. School officials say it was more than an isolated incident and appears to have involved a tradition of older players hazing younger ones. **2004 Oklahoma Bridge Creek High School An incident last spring, when high school baseball players held down and paddled eighth graders with a 1 X 4 boards in six incidents spread over three days. **2004 Indiana University Eight Cross Country team members arrested. They were spotted running along Fee Lane wearing only athletic supporters. *2004 Michigan Shiloh High School Guilty pleas are made in a possible hazing incident involving some Edgar County football players. Edgar County State, Attorney Matt Sullivan says a freshman football player for the East Central Panthers was allegedly attached on Shiloh High School Property Oct 12th. **2004 Tennessee Occupational Fire Department. James Coleman incident ended him in the hospital in a night the Fire Department called "Burn Night" six other dehydrated recruits went to the hospital that night. Officials say that's not uncommon. ** 2004 Florida High School Hazing Deltona High School 2/5/2005. Five high school wrestlers may be expelled and some may face criminal charges in connection with alleged hazing this week. Officials at Deltona High School say the incidents occurred in a wrestling practice room at the high school Tuesday before the team's final home meet. In the first, five members of the team allegedly hog-tied a teammate, later releasing him unharmed. But then, the group allegedly turned on one of the five participants in the first prank, hog-tying him, yanking his pants down and zapping him several times with sparks from a grill igniter, said Nancy Wait, a school spokeswoman. All five are suspended and sheriff's officials said they filed complaints with prosecutors seeking battery and false imprisonment charges against three of the teenagers. A sheriff's spokesman said none of the boys was seriously injured. The father of the 17-year-old who was the victim in the second attack said he has withdrawn his son from the high school. **2004 North Carolina State University. Members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon are being extremely quiet about the alleged incident. However students on campus tell Eyewitness News it all involves a fraternity ritual that's been going on for quite some time.