Hank Nuwer, Author; Hazing Deaths Database THE Army’s 10th Infantry Division denied allegations of hazing as part of recruits’ training.
A video was posted recently on the Internet showing Army’s 9th Infantry Division trainers beating up more than 100 draftees clad only in black short pants. The video also showed whips, punches on recruits’ faces, and kicks on their bodies.
“In fact, it was situational and memory training just in case ,,,,” Paniza said.
Excerpt from Dothan (Ala.) Eagle
Six Cottonwood High School seniors will likely face expulsion from school after a hazing incident that occurred on March 17.
Houston County School Superintendent Tim Pitchford said the incident occurred on a bus ride back from a baseball game. Pitchford said six seniors hazed members of the junior varsity team. Pitchford declined to comment on the specifics of the hazing incident.
He said a disciplinary committee is meeting to recommend a punishment for the students. Possible disciplinary actions range from 11 to 45 days in alternative school
Excerpt from Lahontan Valley News
Details of two investigations into allegations of failure to report a December hazing incident by coaches and staff at Churchill County High School have been released.
City of Fallon attorney Lem Mackedon said his office reviewed the reports from the Fallon Police Department and the Churchill County School District and found no criminal wrongdoing.
Mackedon said misdemeanor failure to report charges will not be filed against Principal Kevin Lords, Athletic Director Brad Daum and coaches Mitch Overlie and Matt Reibsamen. Mackedon added his office has been in constant contact with the Churchill County District Attorney’s Office about the investigations and said the DA’s office reviewed the reports as well and found no criminal negligence.
Overlie and Reibsamen will appear at a prediscipline hearing Tuesday where recommendations from the district will be provided to the board of trustees to determine any possible consequences.
Mackedon said he is checking other parts of the report to see if they can be release as part of public record.
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Last month, two Wayne students were convicted of assault in juvenile court for sexually violating a freshman at school, according to the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s office and Huber Heights police records.
One of the juniors and two witnesses told police they were subjected to similar bullying when they were freshmen.
But both Huber Heights City Schools Superintendent Bill Kirby and Wayne Principal Reva Cosby said their internal investigation into the incident found no evidence that hazing or bullying was endemic in the high school.
The 14-year-old victim’s parents told the Dayton Daily News that school staff should have known this was going on and should have done more to prevent it from happening.
Kirby said their investigation determined that some students occasionally took part in unacceptable horseplay, including one activity students called “gooching†in which they would inappropriately touch students’ backsides by sliding their fingers down the students’ pants. “We have taken measures to inform our students that it is an inappropriate behavior,†he said.
How it started
On Nov. 15, the victim, a freshman who planned to try out for Wayne’s baseball team, told police he was spotting another student while training when the weights slipped and fell, and a 17-year-old upperclassman admonished the freshman for his mistake.
In response, the freshman told the older student not to talk to him like that, leading several older students to warn the freshman that he was wrong to talk back to upperclassmen.
On Nov. 22, the upperclassman who admonished the freshman and another 17-year-old student grabbed the victim as he stood in the hallway outside the gym, forced him into a corner and at least one student sexually violated him, according to police.
At least one other 17-year-old student witnessed the event, laughed and jumped up and down in amusement, according to the police officer who reviewed the school’s surveillance footage of the incident.
Later that night, the freshman’s father said he noticed his son was upset, and after confronting him, he learned about the assault. The family met with school officials and notified police.
Charges of first-degree rape by force were originally considered against the two juniors. But on Feb. 1, the teens pleaded guilty to lesser offenses in Juvenile Court, according to prosecutor’s spokesman Greg Flanagan.
Flanagan said one of the teens pleaded guilty to second-degree felony assault and received a suspended jail sentence at a youth services facility. The other teen pleaded guilty to first-degree misdemeanor assault and received probation. They both spent 10 days in juvenile detention and were forbidden from being members of the Wayne baseball team. The district also suspended the pair from school for 10 days, Kirby said.
The students who witnessed the attack were briefly suspended, but they were not forbidden from playing baseball, according to the victim’s parents. Superintendent Kirby said it is inappropriate to discuss the students’ disciplinary action.
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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) – Students gathered for a protest at Christopher Newport University on Tuesday.
They were upset because four students could be expelled. The University charged a number of students with hazing, underage drinking, distribution of alcohol to minors, and violations of the honor code.
Apparently the fraternity, Pi Lambda Phi, had a party in February where one of the new members, who was underage, got drunk.
The student was taken to the hospital unconscious and near death with a .40 blood alcohol level, a statement from the CNU Administration said.
WAVY.com learned he fully recovered, but the international headquarters of Pi Lambda Phi suspended its CNU chapter for the events of that evening.
A statement from CNU said the students who were charged have a right to appeal the decision.