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Moderator — The WISH-TV investigative story on a 1998 hazing case at Carmel High School shows that the school was not required to release its settlement payment to a swimmer who alleged that three other swimmers harassed, bullied and sexually assaulted him when he was a first-year swimmer. Clearly, taxpayers in Carmel have a right to that PAYMENT information PAID WITH CARMEL TAX DOLLARS — as a similar hazing case at Poway High School demonstrated was right and necesary to reveal so far as the amount was concerned. I hope Indianapolis stations or the Indianapolis Star newspaper can get those records.
The video follows from WISH-TV
http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/local/hamilton_county/past-carmel-suit-details-alleged-abuse
Here is a similar case in Michigan and background on that Poway High School case which was investigated by the San Diego Tribune. The Tribune filed a FOIA request and obtained the amount.
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Dr. Walter Kimbrough speaks at Lehigh
Excerpt:
As part of Lehigh’s celebration of Black History Month, Kimbrough delivered a speech titled “Dilemma: The History of Fraternalism in America.”
Kimbrough is the president of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Ark., as well as an active member of the Association of Fraternity Advisors.
He addressed past and recent developments in fraternal culture in the United States.
“Fraternities were created to fill an emotional and social vacancy on college campuses,” Kimbrough said.
The original focus of fraternal organizations was on five main concepts.
“The founders of all the organizations that existed early on created ‘the blueprint,'” Kimbrough said.
He described the blueprint as the “five basic ritualistic precepts of Greek life,” character, scholarship, fellowship, service and religion.
He then addressed the relatively recent digression of “the blueprint,” or what he calls “the blueprint two.”
“After 1930, we created the blueprint two; we have a lot of good things going on, but we have this curse to deal with as well, and that curse is hazing,” Kimbrough said.
Due to hazing he said, a new version of the original blueprint has developed, he said.
“Furthermore, hazing is one of the main reasons the values of fraternities are incongruent with their actions,” Kimbrough said.
“Our rhetoric still does not match our reality. We say one thing and do something else,” he continued.
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High School Sports Hazing
Video Link to interview with moderator Hank Nuwer