Posted on 11/14/2011 10:25:04 AM PST by markomalley
A former UC Davis student is suing the university, accusing the administration of ignoring his complaints that he had been hazed and sexually abused during his initiation at a campus fraternity.
Ryan Clifford, who graduated in 2010, alleges that he was punched, stripped naked, molested and forced to drink "inordinate amounts" of alcohol while pledging the Chi Delta chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi in fall 2008.
In his lawsuit filed in federal court in Sacramento, Clifford said he was targeted for a particularly harsh form of hazing because he was one of the few non-Jewish students pledging the Jewish fraternity. At a mandatory retreat at Lake Tahoe, he said, active and alumni members of the fraternity drugged him, took off his clothes and touched his penis, all while making sexual comments.
A few weeks later, fraternity members brought Clifford and other pledges to an alumnus' house and compelled them to drink alcohol, the complaint states. When Clifford refused, he was ordered into a padded vest and punched in the stomach by a member and a pledge as other members mocked him.
Upon returning to the fraternity house, Clifford's fraternity "big brother" tried to prevent him from leaving by choking him, stomping on his foot and knocking him to the floor. Clifford suffered multiple fractures in his foot that required two surgeries and resulted in a permanent limp, the complaint said.
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Well, I can only speak for my own experiences, but my fraternity never hazed. No beatings, no humiliation, no forced drinking. We worked hard in pledgeship, but everything was positive. We did things like hosting an Easter Egg hunt for the local Boys and Girls Club, doing a car wash to raise funds for a chapter road trip, that sort of thing.
Now, I realize that my experience was probably the exception rather than the norm. Even at my school, there were a couple houses notorious for hazing. Just saying that not all frats are like the idiots in this story.
I appreciated every aspect of fraternity life.
Here’s a suggestion: Don’t pledge!
Pretty sure they neglected to note there was also gambling and prostitutes.
I think some frats can be good, some aren’t. As to hazing, I thought it was interesting that the filmmakers of “Animal House” pointedly noted the LACK of hazing at the good-guys’ house (unless you count a post-induction dousing with beer as “hazing”), in contrast to the bad-guys’ house, with S&M paddlings, etc.
Nothing all that new in this article as it has been known for years and years that fraternities serve as a place for homosexuals in college to live together and practice their sexual orientation on 17 and 18 year old pledges who have just moved away from home for the first time.
Gentle Gentile genital abuse?
On the one hand, I realize that not knowing what the initiation will entail is part of the mystique, intrigue, and honest enticement to do something that might, at first, be a little risky, for the promise of being part of something with rewards to come later, while on the other hand, if I were part of a college administration I might think it prudent to demand that fraternities and sororities provide a full disclosure of their initiation activities.
At least no one could say they were not warned.
My ideal would actually be to force all these outfits off-campus, providing no official campus recognition, approval, disapproval, sanction, opposition, connection or standing whatsoever. Let them operate, and succeed or fail, and meet their own legal issues, as fully unaffiliated and independent organizations.
they all do it, it’s some kind of gay BS. Disgusting
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