Parents Probed in 'Powder Puff' Hazing Incident

FoxNews online ^ | May 08, 2003 | AP

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

NORTHBROOK, Ill.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

This information supports what I've been hearing locally through the students' own grapevine. The kids all know who supplied the kegs.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Here's more information re: the parents' involvement with buying kegs.

[wideawake]

I'll never understand dumbass "rites of passage" like this.

[mewzilla]

...in this well-to-do Chicago suburb.

Hard to miss this aspect since it's mentioned every time this story is written about or discussed...

[MinuteGal]

Did anyone see the press conference with the school's principle? I was struck by the coldness of this man who was referred to as "Doctor" something or other.

He spent more time touting the "greatness" of his school and hardly any on the criminality and grossness of the event. This emotionless intellectual showed no dismay, no passion, no revulsion. He was into CYA all the way.

It was up to the next official, the police chief, I believe, to speak to issue in realistic terms, laying the blame squarely on the students and their parents in particular.

This is a fairly affluent Chicago suburb.

Leni

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

This is a fairly affluent Chicago suburb.

And that's an understatement. The biggest problem, as I see it, is the arrogant mentality that comes along with all the "new money" that's part and parcel of the affluency.

We lived in Northbrook for over 10 years and only recently moved to Glenview. If you can believe this, I was asked by the "in crowd" mostly PTA-circle of moms just why we were moving to Glenview (as if it was a comedown to be living in Glenview, instead of Northbrook). Trust me when I say I know the mentality of these people probably about as well as anybody currently posting on this forum.

Up until we moved, my kids hung around with the siblings of many of the GBN hazing "perps" and "recipients". Needless to say, I'm really relieved we moved out of that "hood".... and I'm not kidding about that.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Me neither. That's the euphemism, doncha know, for "hazing".

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Please see my post above.

[50sDad]

Congratulations! The NOW crowd must be extatic...women have now become officially equal with men...just as cruel, arrogant, deceitful, vicious, and sinful.

I tell my daughter that she is in every way equal to boys with two exceptions; heavy lifting, and "I'll tell you when you are 18" (that being, unable to write her name in the snow.) Still, John Gray has it right...our brains are physically wired differently. We are reaping the bitter harvest of forty years of lying to kids that boys and girls are exactly the same. Is it any wonder we now produce girls that act like boys, not like the girls God made them to be?

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Have you really looked at the video of this incident? It's just as scary as to how the boys behaved. The ones who had any decency simply walked away instead of calling the cops on their cell phones we know they all have. The other ones (like something straight out of "Lord of the Flies") were either yelling and egging on the hazers or they were participating in the hitting, etc. themselves, including as we've been told, members of the boys football team.

I'm telling ya - this is really sick behavior, and, quite honestly, I will not rest until there is something tangible done at the school board level to enact strict anti-hazing policy.

[SpinyNorman]

Maybe they can use the "wilding" precedent set in NY! Call Al Sharpton. Oh, whataminnit, the kids are white. Who cares?

Seriously, the participants should have their diplomas withheld and be forced to repeat a year at minimum at minimum. Personally, I would like to see expulsion and jail sentences. Parents included. This was assault, period.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I definitely think we are going to be seeing some prosecutions (assault and battery, I hope), some fines (hazing has a maximum of $1500 per incident per "perp" in this state), and the book being thrown at the parents who provided the beer.

[MineralMan]

Interesting local discussion forum on this incident here:


http://forums.ibsys.com/viewmessages.cfm?sitekey=chi&Forum=473&Topic=8328

[Petruchio]

I still think that:

1 - All involved should be expelled, both juniors and seniors
1a - Those who only watched should be suspended for remainder of the year, and should repeat the current year of school.

2 - The seniors should NOT graduate

3 - Parents involved should go to jail

4 - Students should be prosicuted.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Thanks for pointing that out to me - unfortunately I won't be able to really read it until I get back in two days. Take care, and thanks again for pinging me to that link. (I'm book-marking everything I can find so I can print it out for the benefit of the school district board members when I make my presentation!!!)

[whoozit]

Just saw this.. GBN is my alma-mater. Class of '82. I HATED that school. I hated the cliquish attitudes. Our 20-year class reunion took place just a few months back. I took a pass on it. Sickening to see this stuff take place at all, but this brings it a bit closer to home.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Thanks for replying. I can understand and appreciate your comments fully. Both my husband and I totally agree on the need to raise our kids to comport themselves on the highest level no matter what the circumstances, but yet also to stand on their own two feet and think for themselves. Please keep in touch - FReep-mail me - would love to hear about what you've done since your days at GBN.

BTW, I'm a downstater by birth/upbringing and my husband was a New Trier grad (long story - he's NOT your typical North Shore snob :-).