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23/8
Today will be partly
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February 4, 1994
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Vol. 93 No. 97
Special Report
■ This week: ■ Today:
Campus consumption Alcohol in fraternities
Hazing can involve alcohol, abuse
Editor’> note: TU* itory contain fint
hand accounts of hazing experiences. The
individuals’ names have been changed and
fraternity names withheld.
By Kara G. Morrison
Senior Reporter
When Sidney, a University
of Nebraska-Lincoln
freshman, joined a frater
nity, he was promised that hazing
didn’t exist.
So much for promises.
“People say hazing doesn’t go
on; they say it’s been blown out of
proportion. That’s crap. They defi
nitely haze. I know.”
His most memorable hazing ex
perience started out innocently
enough. He and the rest ofhis pledge
class were taken out for dinner.
They were told to eat lots of
pasta and to collect dollar bills.
They were told they would need the
money for gambling with alumni
when they returned to the house.
When they returned, the house
was quiet. The pledges were asked
to wait upstairs in a closed-off room.
The silence erupted into torrents
of yelling from the basement. The
pledges were asked to take off their
shirts and shoes and line up. One by
one, they were taken downstairs.
“All the lights were turned out.
All the upperclassmen were scream
ing obscenities, what a bunch of
losers we were, basically verbal
abuse.
l ney aousea us wun ice water
and poured beer on us ... Some of
my pledge brothers got hit with
fists. (Actives) poured beer down
our pants, threw beer in our faces,
handed us pitchers to drink ...”
“We had to keep our heads down;
we couldn’t see everything that was
going on... One guy shoved a pitcher
of beer at me. I tipped it over be
cause I was mad, and he hit me.
“They were shoving us, shout
ing commands to get up and down.
Afterwards, people were puking
because they had eaten so much
before.”
He remembers all of them shiv
ering from the ice water, his eyes
stinging from the beer’s carbon- t
ation, actives—drunk, violent, out y
of control—screaming in his face,
vomit and beer everywhere. j
He also remembers one of his <
pledge brothers, who was on medi- i
cation, having a reaction to the two i
pitchers of beer he had been given
to drink.
“He became a zombie,” Sidney
said.
Some of the pledges suggested
i
Photo illustration by Jon WaJler/DN
Although alcohol is prohibited from greek houses, students say it is often
consumed in fraternities. Alcohol also can be a part of hazing in such incidents as beer
bonging, which involves drinking large quantities of beer in a few seconds.
hey get help. They were told it
vouldn’t be a good idea.
Later, the pledges were asked to
jet out their dollar bills for the
intertainment — a stripper. They
vereexpected to participate. Sidney
isked to leave.
“They called it brotherhood,” he
;aid. “I called it repulsive.”
James, now a senior, has similar
nemories.
“My first experience with haz
ing was formal pledging night. It
was a total shock as far as what had
happened previously.
l*We had been treated with re
spect, and then all of a sudden we
were put in a room with pillow
cases over our heads, with actives
screaming in our face.”
James said alcohol was involved,
but pledges were not being forced
to drink._
See ALCOHOL on 6
isiiitiil
Campus Consumption
Today, the Daily Nebraskan
concludes a weeklong
special report focusing on
the aspects, consequences
and policies concerning
alcohol consumption on
campus
MASA
boycotts
multicultural
affairs office
By Matthew Waite
Senior Reporter_
Members of the Mexican
American Student Associa
tion Thursday n ight said they
would boycott the office of
Multicultural Affairs because of dis
criminatory hiring practices.
Cathy Maestas, president of
MASA, said of the last five positions
filled in the multicultural affairs of
fice, four were by African Americans.
“This action continues to reflect
the notion that when one refers to
minorities on campus, this only ap
plies to the African American experi
ence,” a MASA statement said.
MASA members will not ultilize
any services offered through the
multicultural affairs office.
Jimmi Smith, director of the
multicultural affairs office, said the
office’s record of hiring was clearly
diverse.
“We have probably the most di
verse office in this university,” he
said.
However, Smith said, it was not as
diverse as it would like to be.
Smith challenged other offices to
match his on diversity hiring prac
tices. He said he would continue to
hire people qualified to serve the stu
dents of the University of Nebraska
Lincoln.
i ne statement saia masa was not
condemning current Latino staff or
making this an African American vs.
Latino issue.
Maestas said a qualified Latino
woman was not hired from the group
considered for the fifth position. She
said it was the first time in years a
qualified Latino was considered for a
job.
Maestas said MASA had brought
up the issue several times with cam
pus administrators. There are only
seven Chicanos on faculty at the uni
versity, she said.
‘This is not a recent thing,” Maestas
said. “It’s been going on for quite a
while.”
The MASA statement said the
multicultural affairs office’s commit
ment to diversity was not sincere and
was the worst offender when it came
to affirmative action.
Eric Jolly, UNL director of affir
mative action and diversity, could not
be reached for comment Thursday
night.
MASA also questioned the num
ber of Latinos hired under Vice Chan
cellor for Student Affairs James
Griesen. MASA claimed the student
affairs office ignored its concerns about
its hiring practices.
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Athlete’s lawyer wants one charge thrown out
Player may face
double jeopardy,
his attorney says
By Angie Brankow
Senior Reporter
An attorney for NU football
player Tyrone Williams said
he planned to get one of the
two felony charges filed against his
client thrown out of court.
In a press conference after Will
lams’ Thursday afternoon arraign
ment hearing, Hal Anderson said
charges of unlawful discharge of a
firearm and the use of a weapon to
commit a felony were unconstitution
ally similar.
Elements of both charges are the
same, he said.
“I don’t think he should have to
face two charges for the same event,”
Anderson said.
“That’s double jeopardy,” he said.
Anderson said his client would
plead innocent to the charges.
The charges stem from a Sunday
morning incident in which authori
ties allege Williams shot two or three
rounds at an occupied vehicle near
17th and L streets.
The weapons charge is a Class III
felony, punishable by a minimum of
one year in prison to a maximum of20
years and a $25,000 fine. The unlaw
ful firearm charge is a Class IV felony,
punishable with a maximum of five
years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
The weapons charge sentence can
not be served concurrently with the
sentence from the other charge.
The firearms charge, also known
as the drive-by shooting law, was cre
ated by the Nebraska Legislature in
1990.
Williams was arraigned Thursday
by Lancaster County Judge Jack B.
Lindner on a $50,000 personal recog
nizance bond.
For a personal recognizance bond,
Williams doesn’t have to post bail,
but he would owe the court $50,000 if
he failed to appear for his Feb. 14
docket call.
“He’s just basically on the honor
system to show up,” he said.
Anderson said he had not had time
to investigate the circumstances sur
rounding Williams’ case and could
not comment on them.
But he said the situation was diffi
cult for Williams, who had no crimi
nal record.
“He’s not used vo this,” Anderson
said. “He’s a good young man.”
In another weekend incident in
volving football players Abdul
Muhammad and Ramone Worthy,
Lincoln police reported no new devel
opments Thursday.
Muhammad and Worthy both suf
fered minor injuries in an apparent
brawl at the Residence Inn motel, 299
S. 68th St.