Posted on 04/30/2002 1:34:35 PM PDT by meandog
Frat Members Charged With Pig Abuse
The Associated Press
Tuesday, April 30, 2002; 10:34 AM
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. –– Members of a Wake Forest University fraternity were charged with animal cruelty and abandonment after a drunk, dehydrated and sunburned pig was found unconscious in a park.
Wake Forest spokesman Kevin Cox said the university's dean of students is investigating and could impose fines or suspensions against the fraternity.
The 23 members of Sigma Phi Epsilon could be sentenced to 90 days in jail if convicted on a misdemeanor such as animal cruelty.
County officials said the fraternity members rented a picnic shelter at Tanglewood Park for a party thrown April 20 by newly initiated members in honor of more senior fraternity members.
Animal-control officers were called the next morning after the nearly 200-pound pig was found in the woods by a couple walking their dog. The pig was missing its tail and was unable to stand. Park officials said the animal was drunk.
"It reeked of alcohol," said Barbara Cassidy, the director of Forsyth County Animal Control. "That pig could have easily died. I don't understand how someone could think it would be fun to abuse an animal like that."
The dehydrated hog had patches on its skin where it was burned while being exposed to heat lamps used as props at the party, Cassidy said.
Animal control officers took the ailing animal to the county animal shelter, where it is recuperating.
© 2002 The Associated Press
Here, here!
I would like to add that I find it shameful that a bunch of fratBOYS in North Carolina, my home state and the hog capital of the world, don't know that pigs are sensitive to the sun and liable to get sunburnt and they also dehydrate very easily. What a bunch of dumbass fratBOYS!
PL, it's too late in the day for me to rise to that bait!
They were simply marinating the main course in bourbon, when it up and escaped. ;-) Emeril Lagasse, they ain't!
Of longer consternation to me is the concept of frat houses, in particular, where names like kappa delta phi or similar come from and what makes one frat house perceivably better than another.
Any assistance advancing my understanding is appreciated.
(Basturds used every single smart arsed comment I had ready)...
The American college fraternity system is as old as the United States itself, for it was in 1776 that the first secret Greek-letter society came into existence. It was the custom then for students at William and Mary, the second oldest college in America, to gather in the Apollo Room of the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, Virginia, to discuss the affairs of the day. On the night of December 5, 1776, five close companions stayed after the others had left and... (Click here to continue) The Origin of Fraternities
I didn't join a fraternity when I was in college, but knew many who did. Some were organized around academic interests (the "engineering" faternity, the "agriculture" fraternity). Some were organized more along social lines: the "jock" fraternity (athletes and their groupies), the "Jewish" fraternity, the "Black" fraternity, etc. etc. Many fraternities, however, didn't seem to have any such evident organizing theme, other than being an alternative to living in the school dorms without actually being in your own apartment.
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