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wm 3A NEWS/Siie dmlstte ^pMit Thursday, March 4, 2004 Colege paving price for hazing By Andrew England THE CAPITAL OUTLOOK TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Hazing is an issue that most people on college campuses are reluctant to talk about, yet, the clandestine, often brutal and sometimes dead ly practice simply refuses to go away. Over time, there have been sporadic incidents at Florida A&M University that have cast a dark shadow over on- campus organizations and the extent of what prospec tive members must endure in order to be accepted. And although the hazing spothght is most often on fra ternities and sororities, other organizations get caught in the hazing busi ness as well. Ivery Luckey, a former clarinet player in FAMLPs famed Marching 100 band, was a victim of a hazing inci dent in 1998. Luckey, a former business student from Ocala, was allegedly paddled at least 300 times, causing him to be hospitalized and left him permanently injured. At the Feb. 10 meeting of the FAMU Board of Trustees’ meeting, trustees voted to settle a lawsuit by awarding Luckey $50,000. “He wiU also receive $208, which is one-third of his mediation services,” said Avery McKnight, general counsel for FAMU. “The monies that Luckey win receive comes from the risk management fund on behalf of the FAMU Board of Trustees,” he added. Band members like Deanna Carpenter, a 21- year-old senior newspaper journalism student, are happy that the Luckey issue is over. “I am glad that the case has been settled,” said Carpenter, who is the cur rent clarinet section leader. “I do not condone hazing as a section leader,” added Carpenter, who came to FAMU in 2000 and has marched with the Marching 100 all four years. “I think people mistake hazing for discipline and mistake discipline for haz ing,” she said. Lt. Louis Wichers, who works for the FAMU Police Department, said hazing is all about power and describes it as “ritualized and socialized domestic vio lence.” Wichers has handled sev eral hazing cases, but he is most concerned with the vic tims. “The victims, no matter what the level of injury, will not usually come forward,” said Wichers, who has been with the FAMU PD for 13 1/2 years. “And the ones doing the hazing definitely don’t want to talk.” Wichers also said hazing can also lead to school sus pensions, and m some states, even criminal prosecution. In 1998, 12 FAMU students were suspended in connec tion with the Luckey case. “In Florida, hazing is not a criminal act, but an adminis trative act, which means it is up to the administration as to how they wfil take action,” he said. Some states, however, do consider hazing a criminal act and hazing had led to jail terms for offenders. 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