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Not only that, but this law specifically addresses the athletic teams and other student organizations,not just Greeks. The swim team/soccer team/etc has no "national" org to handle things or dish out punishments.
Back in '84 and '85 I took 2 different fraternity men to the ER with injuries that they incurred during "hell" week. None of them were intentional injuries, but sometimes seemingly "harmless" activities cause serious injuries. One young man was blinded in one eye, permanently, because a raw egg was thrown at him and hit him in the eye... a piece of shell penetrated. Another young man was blindfolded and hit his head on a door jamb getting out of the car (being yanked out of the car, actually). When he woke up the next morning, he was bleeding out of his ear from a head injury.
But, to avoid the "it's just Greeks" mentality, while we were talking at lunch at work the other day about Sorority Life and Fraternity Life and the "hazing" that occurs, one of my co-workers told me in detail what she had to do to be "initiated" into the college swim team and it was worse than anything I'd heard a fraternity or sorority do. She admits now that they were very lucky that nobody was ever injured or died.
Anyway, my point is, it isn't just targeting Greeks. The "final straw" that led to this bill being introduced was the incident at U of Mich, but there have been numerous sports team hazing incidents in Michigan that have gotten a lot of press too.
Dee
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