What is this world coming to?

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I found this today on a yahoo fraternal news posting. Looks like another prank involving pledges turns into hazing........but how can pledges haze actives? In my eyes, its just another example of the system screwing the greeks. Seems like a little harmless fun to me.

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The Associated Presspress
December 13, 2001

Four UConn students get accelerated rehabilitation

A Superior Court judge has given a special form of probation to three of four University of Connecticut fraternity pledges involved in a hazing incident last month.

The Sigma Chi pledges were accused of tying up a fraternity brother with duct tape with plans to throw him in Mirror Lake on the Storrs campus. Judge Jane Scholl ordered each student to perform 40 hours of community service during the next year and to refrain from taking part in other hazings....as if they are planned events every week or something.

The judge granted accelerated rehabilitation to freshmen Adam S. Goff, 18, of Holmdel, N.J., and Jeffrey R. Weeden, 18, of Lynn, Mass.; and sophomores Thomas E. Valeri II, 19, of Sterling, Mass..

The fourth accused student, Daniel S. Lapolla, 20, of Old Lyme, was not in court Wednesday and was expected to appear on Jan. 2 for an accelerated rehabilitation hearing.

If the students stay out of the trouble for the next year, the hazing charges would be erased from their records.

The pledges abducted the student from the library at about 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 6 after scolding him for not wearing his fraternity pin after dark, officials said. The foursome taped the student's hands and legs, tossed him in a vehicle and drove to the lake, police said.

A university police officer became suspicious and approached the car, where he found the bound student in the back seat.

The students told police they were planning to throw the student into the lake "as a joke," authorities said.

University officials said disciplinary action against the students
was pending, and Sigma Chi remains under investigation. The national chapter of Sigma Chi has placed the UConn chapter on probation for the rest of the semester.