WORLD & NATION
may 10, 2013
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LONDON, UK
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron will host a global conference in London to help Somalia end and
recover from two decades of strife.The conference will primarily target two issues of national concern:
rape and corrupt security forces. More than 50 countries, including the U.S., are expected to attend.
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CLEVELAND, USA
Amanda Berry, Georgina Dejesus,
Michelle Knight and a 6-year-old
born to Berry in captivity were
found alive in a residential area
on May 6.The three women
disappeared in quick succession
over a decade ago while in their
teens.The primary suspect and
owner of the house, Ariel Castro,
is in custody with charges of
kidnapping and rape.
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CANBERRA,
AUSTRALIA
Australia declared its
first honorary citizen:
Raoul Wallenberg, a
Swedish diplomat who
helped save thousands
of jews during the
Holocaust. Wallenberg
provided protective
passports and safe
passage for many Jews
who later escaped to
Australia. Last seen
alive in custody of
Soviet forces in 1945,
Wallenberg’s fate
remains unclear.
BRASILIA, BRAZIL
Amidst a shortage of doctors, Brazil consulted the Pan American Health Organization
in an attempt to recruit 6,000 Cuban doctors. If granted approval, the Brazilian Ministry
of Health will assign Cuban doctors to understaffed clinics in rural areas. In turn, Brazil
pledges at least $ 176 million to, refurbish airports in Havana and Santiago, Cuba.
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THE CULTURE OF GREEK LIFE
STRONGLY PROMOTES BOTH
POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE
TYPES OF HAZING
BY MiCHAEL CASWELL
Staff Writer
"Fraternities are very imposing," said
Phi Lambda Pi member and UNC Chapel
Hill Senior Will Hodgkins. "The whole
experience of pledging is social mind f—."
Colleges and universities across the
country face the growing issues of hazing on
a regular basis.
The dangerous practice of hazing affects
a wide range of students, from those
participating in campus Greek life to athletes
on sports teams or members of various
collegiate organizations.
Just last month. Young Harris College
first-year Jo Hannah Burch filed a lawsuit
regarding her experiences while pledging.
She said she was taken to an ice-cold creek
nearby, where she was forced to sit in the
cold water for hours.
Also last month, four Virginia State
University students were charged with
hazing after forcing two pledges to walk
through the treacherous rapids of the
Appomattox River. One pledge drowned,
while another is still missing.
Hodgkins does not support hazing, but
he says it is very prominent in the culture of
campus Greek life.
He recounted a story of five pledges from
one fraternity who were forced to stand
in a cold shower while ice was poured on
their naked bodies. For several days, they
had to eat anything that the brothers of the
fraternity told them to eat.
Hodgkins recalled being awoken at two in
the morning and taken to a dark field, where
he was instructed to drink hot beer and ran
around until he vomited. Hodgkins did this
until his class the next day.
Although these experiences were
unpleasant at the time, Hodgkins identified
some positive benefits of the hazing practices.
"Hazing has aspects of character building,
and going through those things helped me
to grow a strong bound with my fellow
pledges," said Hodgkins.
Appalachian State junior Nia Mckie,
like her national sorority chapter Phi Mu,
actively discourages hazing.
"Hazing forces people to bond through
horrifying experiences instead of bonding
over foiendships and morals," said Mckie
Mckie's sorority sister, Olivia Cullither,
also a junior at Appalachian State agreed
that hazing should not have any part in
Greek Life or athletic teams.
Cullither recalled a fraternity being
removed from campus for setting off Roman
candles and bottle rockets, aimed at pledges.
Mckie has heard stories about various
athletics teams at Appalachian State having
some type of hazing for new recruits.
What is being done to prevent acts of
hazing on college campuses?
Many hazing tactics are deemed illegal,
but is that enough of a deterrent?
Hodgkins said that the responsibility for
hazing should fall on both the school and the
individual.
Sophomore Eli Moran believes Guilford
is hazing-free because it does not have an
affiliation with Greek life.
"Hazing comes with Greek life," said
Moran. "That's why you never hear stories
about it happening around Guilford."
Hodgkins suggested forbidding first-year
students from pledging in the fall semester
and instead allowing them to have more time
to learn about what pledging might entail.
He warned that hazing will almost always
be a component of the rushing experience.
"Just like the military will always have
hazing, so will Greek life; we just have to
be responsible enough to not take it too
far," said Hodgkins. "People need to look
into what they are getting into, and if they
make that decision, then they know what to
•expect."
Mckie recommended reading each
fraternity or sorority's creed before deciding
to pledge.
"Just like the military will always have hazing, so will Greek
life; we just have to be responsible enough to not take it too far.
People need to look into what they are getting into, and if they
make that decision, then they know what to expect."
Hodgkins, Phi Lamdbo Pi member and UNC Chapel Hill senior