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Article on fraternity Litigation

The article is two decades old, but is well worth reading for background. The author is Kerri Mumford.

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Tribute to George W. Spasyk

Historian Mike Raymond has written a moving tribute to the late antihazing activist George W. Spasyk.

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“Hazing” A Throwback to the Middle Ages” by Frederick D. (Fred) Kershner, Jr.

Moderator Note: When I was performing initial research on hazing 1975-1989 for “Human Behavior” magazine and my 1990 “Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing,” no fraternity experts were more helpful than CHUCK founder Elenne Stevens and Delta Tau Delta historian Fred Kershner, Jr.

I think you’ll find this article as relevant today as it was decades ago.  Moderator Hank Nuwer

Here is Fred’s article. RIP Fred and wife Marian.  –Moderator Hank Nuwer

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California’s 1958 Hazing law and Pasadena hazing prank

 

The 1958 California State Hazing Law includes punishments for hazing such as removal of all state aid and scholarships to perpetrators.

See Front Page, Stanford Daily, Nov. 6 1960

 

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Hugh C. Moore: Dead in a Cane Rush (flying wedge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology class battle)

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, November 16, 1900