Rutgers sorority girls arrested for spanking pledges

Fraternities and sororities are known for having fairly unique traditions which make pledges earn their way into the elite organizations. But one sorority at Rutgers University in New Jersey is having problems with their tradition of spanking female pledges with paddles and depriving them of food, leading to six of them getting arrested and the school suspending the sorority indefinitely.

Rutgers University says it has suspended a campus sorority after six members were charged with hazing prospective pledges by paddling them and denying them food.

Police say one Rutgers University student was hurt so bad that she ended up in the hospital.

The six members who were arrested this week are charged with aggravated hazing, an indictable criminal offense, and could face disciplinary action and possible expulsion under the university’s code of conduct. They are free on $1,500 bail.

“The allegation is that they were struck by a paddle on multiple occasions,” Vice President for Student Affairs at Rutgers University Gregory Blimling said.

The students-turned-suspects are 20 and 21 years old.

I know many of you might not believe in the so-called “Greek system” in place at many universities because of stuff like this, and that seems like a reasonable notion to have. I went to school at USC and, while there, I was close with a number of sorority girls and a lot of them do things like this, particularly the imposed weight loss thing. One sorority I know of would make girls weigh in at initiation and set ridiculously difficult pound goals that the girls would have to meet for the next couple weeks. Another would take a laser pointer and point to the girls’ problem areas in front of the entire sorority house. Cruel? Yes. But they make this sacrifice not only for the sorority, but for all of us. I mean, would you be watching Girls Gone Wild if the girls were built like vats of delicious pudding? Of course not.

So here’s to you and your vicious paddlings, Sigma Gamma Rho. We thank you. And hopefully the lessons you’ve learned after your spankings and paddle beatings and eating a half of a piece of lettuce for three days will carry you on through the rest of your time at glorious Rutgers. These are the types of lessons parents just don’t teach their kids enough these days.

[ABC NY]

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