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Sorority Hazing Triggers Busts, Lawsuit
« on: September 03, 2010, 05:54:17 AM »
You'd think that a fraternity hazing would trigger stories like this.  But, . . .

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Sorority Hazing Triggers Busts, Lawsuit

Pledges were beaten and warned that “snitches get stitches”

SEPTEMBER 1--A California college student who was repeatedly beaten, punched, kicked, and paddled during a weeks-long sorority initiation that included frequent warnings that “snitches get stitches” yesterday filed a negligence lawsuit against a variety of defendants, including four sorority members who were convicted earlier this year of hazing.

In a Superior Court complaint, Courtney Howard details how she and fellow San Jose State University students were roughed up while pledging the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority in late-2008. After Howard, 20, reported the hazing to police and university officials, she charges that sorority members began to harass and threaten her. Howard, pictured at right, subsequently left the school, and is now enrolled at the University of Southern California.

In her lawsuit, excerpted here, Howard noted that she had originally planned to pledge Alpha Kappa Alpha, the oldest African-American women’s sorority. But since the sorority’s San Jose chapter has been suspended due to hazing activities, Howard opted to join Sigma Gamma Rho, believing that “they represented the ‘sisterhood’ she sought in a sorority.”

The story from The Smoking Gun is only seven paragraphs long, so I took only three.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/college/sorority-hazing-triggers-busts-lawsuit

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Re: Sorority Hazing Triggers Busts, Lawsuit
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2010, 07:00:45 AM »
I wish crap like this woulda made news a brazillion years ago.  My Grandmother never got over me not pledging to the sorority.  I was a legacy, and she was so mad.  She never understood how MEAN those girls were.
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Re: Sorority Hazing Triggers Busts, Lawsuit
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2010, 08:20:42 AM »
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Any organization that represents itself as being a member of the social Greek community at SJSU that is not listed above is operating without approval of San José State University and should be approached with caution. The following chapters have been suspended by San José State University or their national office for hazing, violence, or inappropriate chapter management practices within the past few years: Alpha Kappa Alpha (sorority), Lambda Phi Epsilon (fraternity), Phi Gamma Delta (fraternity), Pi Alpha Phi (fraternity), Sigma Gamma Rho (Sorority) and Zeta Phi Beta (sorority).

http://www.sjsu.edu/getinvolved/fasl/current/chapter_info/

https://secureapp.netclubmgr.com/ICS/CM/V2/Student/Club.aspx?uid=sjsunv&ClubId=6435

"Snitches get stitches"?  That shit belongs on the street and in the ghetto, not in a college or university.  Morons. :whatever:
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Re: Sorority Hazing Triggers Busts, Lawsuit
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2010, 08:26:06 AM »
Throw these idiots into Gen. pop. at Pelican Bay for a week.
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Re: Sorority Hazing Triggers Busts, Lawsuit
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2010, 12:00:25 PM »
Did you say, "sorority busts"?

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Re: Sorority Hazing Triggers Busts, Lawsuit
« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2010, 12:37:57 PM »
MSB, I'll submit to being hazed by them any day of the week! :naughty: :hyper:
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Re: Sorority Hazing Triggers Busts, Lawsuit
« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2010, 01:19:45 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on September 03, 2010, 08:20:42 AM
https://secureapp.netclubmgr.com/ICS/CM/V2/Student/Club.aspx?uid=sjsunv&ClubId=6435

"Snitches get stitches"?  That shit belongs on the street and in the ghetto, not in a college or university.  Morons. :whatever:

It's a black sorority.  :lmao:

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