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Another non-confrontational "snappy" headline
This was passed around on "fraternal news" and illustrates the depths that anti-Greeks will go to in calling something hazing.
Now if these people were "circling the fat" it would be something, but unless the boys were writing their names in private places, it's just collegiate fun.
PS: Altho Hoosier loves women, he isn't one (as some vicious assassin charged elsewhere in GC).
The Dartmouth
University Wire
January 28, 2003
Sorority accused of hazing incidents at Dartmouth
By Kaitlin Bell, The Dartmouth
Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority is under investigation by the Office of
Residential Life and Undergraduate Judicial Affairs for hazing
violations that allegedly took place at Chi Gamma Epsilon and Theta
Delta Chi fraternities following the sorority's official bid
acceptance night activities on Sunday, Jan. 19.
At Tails held with Chi Gam, male students used red markers to sign
their names on the bodies of three pledges at the urging of both the
pledges themselves and two other Kappa members, members of Kappa's
pledge class who spoke on the condition of anonymity told The
Dartmouth.
Similar events involving name-signing occurred at Theta Delt later on
in the evening, sources within Kappa, Chi Gam and other Greek
organizations said.
The Kappa pledges who spoke to The Dartmouth emphasized that at both
houses, the signing was voluntary and was not part of any organized
hazing or initiation event conducted officially by Kappa. With
administrators declining to comment on the investigation, it remains
unclear who reported the incidents to the College, though Kappa, the
Panhellenic Council and ORL have been in contact since last week.
Outgoing Kappa President Allison Sydlaske '03 said that nothing
inappropriate happened at Theta Delt and unequivocally denied the
rumor that pledges were forcibly kissed by Theta Delt members.
The sorority's own internal adjudication process has found two '04
members guilty of "inappropriate behavior" that occurred elsewhere
and has placed them on probation, Sydlaske said.
"While we do not believe that it was hazing, we do think that Kappas
acted inappropriately on Sunday night," Sydlaske said.
Probation includes rescinding the members' voting privileges and
requiring them to participate in new member education sessions that
outline the standards of behavior expected by the sorority.
Though sources present at the event, including members of the Kappa
pledge class, described a large, organized tails event, both Chi Gam
social chair John Delacruz '03 and Sydlaske denied that the houses
had an official party together on Sunday night. Delacruz said he had
discussed having tails with Kappa's social chair a week earlier but
decided against it because it was bid acceptance night.
The Panhellenic Council's recruitment regulations prohibit any
alcoholic activities during rush period, including bid acceptance
night.
Instead, Chi Gam invited both Kappa members and other guests to come
over for an informal gathering, Delacruz said.
Delacruz said he was unaware of any Chi Gam members signing their
names on the bodies of Kappa pledges, and that neither he nor his
house condones such behavior.
Kappa's official bid acceptance night activities ended at 10 p.m.
Sunday night, Sydlaske said, adding that anything that happened
afterward was merely a result of a group of sorority members deciding
to go out together and as such did not constitute an official Kappa
event.
Sydlaske said she discovered what went on not because the pledges
involved in the activity complained, but through rumors circulating
throughout the campus.
Several new Kappa members said that a number of pledges sang the
Kappa song loudly at Chi Gam and Theta Delt -- something that may
have drawn attention to them and prompted someone to report the
incident.
Kappa pledges said that they were alerted to the fact that the
sorority was under investigation at a new member orientation event
before last Wednesday night's meetings. House officers told the
pledges that from then on they should not draw attention to the fact
that they were new members of Kappa when at fraternities, the pledges
said.
The Panhellenic Council is also in the process of investigating the
sorority's actions, Panhell Vice President Christine Sebourn '03
said. Panhell does not have any specific prohibitions on hazing, but
is looking into a possible violation of the no-alcohol on bid
acceptance night rule.
In keeping with Panhell's mission of constructive "mediation," any
action taken by the organization toward Kappa would consist not of
punishment but of required educational or philanthropic activities,
Sebourn said.
Both Kappa and the Panhellenic Council had meetings with ORL over the
past week, though Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman declined to
comment on what remains an ongoing investigation.
Office of Judicial Affairs Marcia Kelly also declined to comment but
said that hazing violations that are deemed valid can go before the
Organizational Adjudication Committee, which holds hearings and deals
out punishment accordingly, depending on whether involved parties are
found guilty or not.
Sydlaske said that whatever the College's findings, the behavior of
the two '04s "contradicts the standards of our fraternity."
"Regardless of the College's decision to begin an investigation Kappa
would have made the decision to pursue its own internal
investigation, and for that reason a standards committee was convened
to get statements from the members involved," she added.
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