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By L.A.A. WILLIAMS
Chronicle Staff Writer
A white Wake Forest Universi
ty student says he is sorry for
; what he did, but that he will ap;
peal disciplinary action taken
; against ijim for his role in a con:
frontation three weeks ago beti
ween a white fraternity and black
students.
?J Meanwhile, a black student
who also was involved in the incident
said Tuesday that he is both
' hopeful and disturbed at how the
university has respor(3ed to the
incident.
Charles E. Leftwich Jr., a
black Student who nleadeH oniltv
last Thursday before a campus
disciplinary board to a charge of
destruction of property, said he is
satisfied with the student reac- .
tion, but not the university's.
"I'm satisfied with the. pro-egress
the students have made, but
the university is still dragging its
feet," Leftwich said. "No one in
the higher administration of the
university has done anything. All
they have done is try us.
"1 have not received a letter, a
phone call or any thing^ 11 seems _
they could call all of us in and
say, 'How can we stop this from
happening again?' "
Leftwich and Sheldon
Ecklund, the white student, were
required to appear before the
board after a March 24 Kappa
Sigma fraternity party that spurred
a confrontation between
black students and 'TraterniTy
members. The black students at~
tended the party because it
allegedly involved a show that is
offensive to blacks.
A&T fratern
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- GREENSBORO - Warrants
have been drawn up against a
Greensboro man after a fraternity
hazing at North Carolina A&T
State University in which seven
pledges were hit on the head with
a two-by-four and another's
beard was set on fire.
Steven Jones, 20, turned
himself in and was released on a
$5,000 bond, Greensboro police
said.
Jones was charged with five
misdemeanor counts of assault
with a deadly weapon; two felony
counts of assault with a deadly
weapon, inflicting serious injury;
two misdemeanor counts of hazing
and one misdemeanor count
of simple assault and battery.
The eight students were pledging
Omega Psi Phi and were injured
during "Hell Week/' traditionally
the last and most difficult
week of the fraternity
Dledee Dcriod. All but one of the
students were assaulted March
27.
The fraternity was suspended
two years ago for "similar" hazing
activities, fraternity officialssaid
recently. )
Omega Psi Phi was suspended
in 1984 for "something similar to
what we have now," said Leon
Bavridge, district representative
for the fraternity's national
chapter. Bavridge said he could
not recall specifics of the hazing.
The president of the
fraternity's local graduate
chapter, John Patterson, said he
also was unable to remember
what happened.
"I think two or three of the
boys took some pledges off campus
and did some things," Patterson
said. He said the fraternity
members "insisted the boys do
something," but Patterson could
not elaborate.
Bavridge, who- supervises 86
chapters in North Carolina and
South Carolina, said the 1984
hazing incident was not nearly as
serious as those being investigated
now.
"In my almost 30 years as a
member of this fraternity, 1 have
never seen anything this bad,"
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express oj
in aftermath <
Black students also said the
party followed a pattern of
racially insensitive fraternity activities
that were not being addressed
by the. school's administration.
Ecklund, a fraternity member,
was charged with public exposure
and public slander for shouting
racial slurs, and attempting to
urinate on a crowd of black
females from a second-story window.
Lefrfcich hurled a chair
through the window to protest
Ecklund's actions.
Ecklund, who said Tuesday he
had been drinking on the night of
the incident, would not say how
he pleaded in the hearing or what
punishment he received. When
asked if he had been suspended,
he would not comment, but he
did say he will appeal the panel's
decision.
Ecklund's appeal will be heard
by the Student Judicial Board, an
elected body of 12 students. No
date has been set for the appeal.
Ecklund said he is optimistic
that the matters Will be resolved.
"Hopefully things will work
out," he said. "I have apologized
"lo some, but not formally. 1 want
to wait until it's all over."
The university's Case Referral
Panel, the lowest body handling
on-campus grievances, heard the
cases last Thursday. The panel
consists of a student, a faculty i
member and a school administrator.
1 eftwich said _K\ expects to
icnow his semens 1i<vn rhe~panef~
"by the firsj oflirvf week~
while t 11 o panel was
deliberate <> on ?vif . lay, L.eftwich
said he and Eeklund and
\ity member
atiggsjiledttes
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Bavridge said.
In the latest incident, according
to arrest warrants, Jeffrey
Henderson had his beard set on
fire, resulting in scarring;
Lawrence Robinson was hit on
the front of his head; Arnold
Mazyck was hit on the head,
arms and shoulders with a twoby-four;
Clemente McWilliams
was hit on the right side of the
head vMth a two-by-four,
resulting in a blood clot; Patrick
Curry was hit oti the head,
resulting in a large wound that
could not be closed with stitches;
Derwin Patterson was hit on the
head, arms, shoulders and legs;
Leroy Sharpe was struck on the
front of the head with a two-by- '
four; Alexander Dawson was hit
on the left side of the head and
needed seven stitches.
Ronald Buck, vice chancellor
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university has been conducting an
investigation of the hazing incident
since officials first learned
of the assaults March 28. He said
Jones appeared to be the only one
involved in the assaults.
"We do not tolerate any form
of mental or physical hazing on
this campus," Buck said. The
hazing "violated both state and
university law," he said.
A tribunal comprised of both
students and faculty will conduct
a hearing when the school's investigation
is complete to determine
if any sanctions will be
made against students or the
fraternity.
Buck said the assaults occurred
off campus, -"maybe at one of
the student's residences." There
are no fraternity or sorority
houses at A&T.
Buck said that this was the only
incident of hazing he could recall
in his 18 months as vice
chancellor at A&T. Buck said
university officials will check to
see if hazing has occurred at
other fraternities.
"When something like tHs
hanivns von hav#? trvtakp a lr?r*L
to sec whether it's an isolated incident
or more widespread/' he v.
said; "We don't want anything
like this to happen on our campus
again."
rtimism,
of incident
some of the fraternity members
talked over what happened. He
said the outcome was positive.
"I think we learned to respect
each other," Leftwich said.
"Sheldon apologized for what
happened, and we shook hands. I
believe he was sincerely sorry for
what he did. We left that meeting
as students, not as blacks and
whites, but as students."
One meeting between members
of ffftttfftitks and black students
has been held to discuss the pro
blems between them, and another
has been scheduled this week.
Both sides say the meetings have
been productive.
"l?'s just unfortunate that it
took student initiative and not
administration initiative to settle
this," Leftwich said.
Some black students, however,
feel the incident has been blown
out of proportion. Several of the
witnesses to the incident have
refused comment, saying that too
much negative publicity has
already been focused on what
started out as a small incidents
Leftwich disagrees.
"I don't feel that way at all,'*
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