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I found this pretty interesting.....sounds like the girls got it pretty bad last year, and wanted to "get revenge"....I don't understand that at all, with us we never wanted anyone to experience what our girls did.....but anyway here you go...
-This was taken from an article I was reading that was REALLY long....---
Student organized
That ban hasn't kept students from organizing the games at local forest preserves, although some Glenbrook North seniors said it's only in the past two years that the fun has turned violent.
"It started out as just hazing with ketchup and mustard, and people might get a few scratches, but it turned into pig intestines being wrapped around girls' necks," said Erin Lasday, who said she wasn't at Sunday's hazing, but has friends among those injured.
Kaitlin Getz, the senior class president, said she also stayed away from the fracas, but said she heard the seniors decided to take revenge for the beating they had received the year before, during a fight that featured scissors and buckets of vomit. "They were like, 'If we got it that bad, then we're going to do it equal or better," Getz said.
Riggle said school officials are well aware of the students' game organizing efforts and try to find out details, so they can alert the authorities and break up the game.
"The kids know we condemn it and we try to keep it from happening," he said. "Any time we have knowledge of activities that are detrimental to our students, we alert the authorities. We were not able to be as proactive as we'd like to have been this year."
Several students said participants paid about $35, money that got them special jerseys, as well as beer and other alcoholic beverages.
Lasday said every year, the seniors wear their T-shirts the Friday before the hazing, so she was surprised that school authorities didn't know the event was imminent. This year's shirt was the same as last year's, emblazoned with "Tequiza Pleasa," in reference to beer. "The school forces them to turn them inside out, because of" the shirts' message, Lasday said. "I don't know why" the appearance of the shirts would not"be a big hint" that something was about to happen.
Superintendent Hales said he's told that students wear the T-shirts several times a year, and talk about the powder puff game long before it is scheduled.
The Northbrook police first got word of the fracas on Sunday when a resident called at 1:30 p.m. to report that a "bunch of kids were in the forest preserve making a mess," Northbrook Police Sgt. Tony Matheny said Tuesday.
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