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The following information appears in compliance with the 1987 State of Texas Hazing Law:
Texas Hazing Law
Texas A&M University
On August 31,1987 a new law went into effect in the State of Texas regarding HAZING. Below is an abbre
viated summary, in question and answer form, of the contents of that law and the applicability and implications
for students, faculty and staff at Texas A&M University. THIS IS ONLY A SUMMARY. Certain points in the law
have been omitted in this summary for editorial purposes. For the full text of the law, please see Appendix XI
of the 1989-90 University Regulations.
What is the definition of Hazing?
“Hazing" means any intentional, knowing, or reckless act, occurring on or off campus of Texas A&M University,
by one person alone or acting with others, directed against a student, that endangers the mental or physical
health or safety of a student for the purpose of pledging, being initiated into, affiliation with, holding office in,
or maintaining membership in any organization whose members are or include students at Texas A&M Uni
versity. The term includes but is not limited to:
(a) Any type of physical brutality, such as whipping, beating, striking, branding, electronic shocking, placing of
a harmful substance on the body, or similar activity.
(b) Any type of physical activity, such as sleep deprivation, exposure to the elements, confinement in a small
place, calisthenics, or other activities that subjects the student to an unreasonable risk of harm or that adver
sely affects the mental or physical health or safety of the student.
(c) Any activity involving consumption of a food, liquid, alcoholic beverage, liquor, drug, or other substance
which subjects the student to an unreasonable risk of harm or which adversely affects the mental or physical
health or safety of the student.
(d) Any activity that intimidates or threatens the student with ostracism, that subjects the student to extreme
mental stress, shame, or humiliation, or adversely affects the mental health or dignity of the student or dis
courages the student from entering or remaining registered in an educational institution , or that may rea
sonably be expected to cause a student to leave the organization or the institution rather than submit to acts
described in this subsection.
(e) Any activity that induces, causes, or requires the student to perform a duty or task which involves a viola
tion of the penal code.
In addition, Texas A&M University has also defined hazing to include:
(a) Misuse of authority by virtue of your class rank or leadership position.
(b) Any form of physical bondage.
(c) Any form of “Quadding'’.
How do I commit a hazing offense?
A person commits an offense if the person:
(a) Engages in hazing.
(b) Solicits, encourages, directs, aids or attempts to aid another in engaging in hazing.
(c) Intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly permits hazing to occur.
(d) Has firsthand knowledge of the planning of a specific hazing incident involving a student of Texas A&M
University, or firsthand knowledge that a specific hazing incident has occurred, and knowingly fails to report
said knowledge in writing to the appropriate University official.
Does it matter if I did not intend to hurt anyone?
No. Texas A&M's policies state that if one of the above occurs, it is HAZING, regardless of the intent.
Does it matter if the person being hazed agrees to the activity?
No. The new law and Texas A&M's policies state that if one of the above occurs, it is HAZING, regardless of
the consent or cooperation of the recipient.
What is the penalty if I’m found guilty of hazing?
(a) Failing to report hazing:
Fine up to $1,000 and/or up to 180 days in jail.
(b) Hazing resulting in no serious bodily injury:
Fine.of $500-$1,000 and/or 90-180 days in jail.
(c) Hazing resulting in serious bodily injury:
Fine of $1,000-$5,000 and/or 180 days to 1 year in jail.
(d) Hazing resulting in death:
Fine of $5,000-$10,000 and/or 1 -2 years in jail.
(e) Except where the hazing results in death, the student may be required to perform community service in
lieu of confinement in jail.
(f) The student may also be subject to University disciplinary action, up to and including removal from the Uni
versity, in addition to or regardless of any penalty imposed by the state.
Can an organization be found guilty of hazing?
Yes. An organization commits an offense if the organization condones or encourages hazing or if an officer or
any combination of members, pledges, or alumni of the organization commits or assists in the commission of
hazing.
Can I get into trouble for reporting hazing?
No. Any person who reports a specific hazing incident involving a student to an appropriate University official
is protected from civil or criminal liability. However, a person who reports in bad faith or with malice is not pro
tected by this section.
Where do I report hazing?
Office of the Commandant 845-2811 if the hazing was committed by members of the Corps of Cadets.
Department of Students Activities 845-1133 if the hazing was committed by members of a Greek organiza
tion or other recognized student organization.
Student Judicial Affairs Office 845-5262 all other incidents of hazing.
The following information appears in compliance with the 1987 state of Texas Hazing Law shown above:
Student Organization Hazing Violations:
Organizatton Name: Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity v
Date of Incident: April 6,1988
Description of Incident: Three pledges were involved in incident on April 6, 1988, which involved being "pop
ped” with a paddle. One ended up at the hospital because of bruises and pain to the legs. The actives did not
suggest, approve, or have knowledge of the paddling. The pledges obtained the idea from a mdvie entitled
“School Daze,” which has scenes in which pledges paddle each other.
Action Taken: The fraternity was placed on one year’s probation by the Student Organization Board effective
August 11, 1988. The president and pledge trainer were to take the Greek Leadership Class and visit regu
larly with the Greek Advisor.
Organization Name: Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity
Date of Incident: April 25,1988
Description of Incident: A pledge received a bruised pelvis while participating in a “Pete Rose Slide" at the Pi
Kappa Alpha House. The slide involves covering the grass with water, and then the pledges do a head-first
slide on the grass. Five to ten students were involved in the incident.
Action Taken: The Texas A&M Interfraternity Judiciary Committee placed the fraternity on probation for the
1988-89 academic year, required the chapter to present an educational seminar concerning hazing each se
mester during the probation, and the three-year publication notice.
Organization Name: Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity
Date of Incident: November 14,1989
Description of Incident: Two pledges of the Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity were taken by 13 members on a
“snatch" breakfast in the back of a pickup truck. They were told to remove all of their clothes except their un
derwear. They were caused to purchase syrup, vaseline, and crisco at a convenience store. They had some
syrup on them when stopped by the College Station police.
Action Taken: The Interfraternity Council Judicial Board placed the fraternity on one year's probation from the
date of the hearing (Nov. 20, 1989), mandated the chapter to incorporate hazing educational seminars into
their pledge program, to present a university -wide program on hazing issues and laws, name a new IFC rep
resentative who is an A&M student, find a chapter advisor by spring 1990 rush, and have the new chapter
president meet with the IFC Advisor twice monthly during the probation period.
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WORLD & NATION
Page 8 Wednesday, February 28,1990
Sandinistas lose power;
defend revolution gains
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) —
President Daniel Ortega demanded
the immediate disbanding of U.S.-
backed Contra rebels and set tough
conditions Tuesday for a peaceful
transfer of power to the coalition
that won the elections.
“A change of government does
not mean the end of the revolution,”
he told thousands of cheering sup
porters after a meeting of Sandinista _
party leaders.
Ortega said the party would relin
quish power because of the election x
loss Sunday, but would defend the '
gains of the revolution.
“The Sandinista National Liber
ation Front demands the immediate
demobilization and disarming of the
Contras so there can be a peaceful
transition,” he read from a
statement by the party leadership.
It said the Sandinistas would “de
fend the integrity and professional
ism of the army and the police
forces.”
President-elect Violeta Barrios de
Chamorro and her United National
Opposition alliance have promised
to eliminate the military draft and
reduce the size of the armed forces.
Control of the military and police
is considered the most delicate issue
in a power transfer. They are closely
identified with the Sandinista party
and the army is known as the Sandi
nista People’s Army, not the Nicara
guan army.
Rafael Solis, a military com
mander, said earlier Tuesday the
Sandinistas would not give up con
trol of the armed forces and police
unless the Contras were disbanded.
Rank-and-file Sandinistas held
demonstrations and some de
nounced the election results, while
grudgingly saying they would accept
the party’s loss. Others urged Ortega
not to give up power.
Solis said of the Contras: “They
have to come back without arms.
This is a necessity in Nicaragua. We
need this in order to continue dis
cussions about our army.”
He urged Chamorro’s coalitionto
press for disbanding the Contras,
who have been fighting, particularly
with the backing of the former Rea
gan administration, to overthrow the
leftist Sandinistas since 1981.
White House did not conduct
secret talks to release hostages
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House today
denied a report that the United States and Iran held se
cret talks in Geneva aimed at securing the release of
Americans held hostage in Lebanon.
“We are not aware of the source of these stories or
any talks that fit this description,” said White House
press secretary Marlin Fitzwater.
The report was carried by a London-based Lebanese
newspaper, Al-Hayat. An editor at the paper said the
Arabic-language story reported that Sheik Mohammed
Hussein Fadlallah, a key Lebanese Shiite Moslem cleric,
had. said contacts took place between Iran and the
United States, through third parties.
Fadlallah, said to have spoken in Beirut after a trip to
the Iranian capital, Tehran, is spiritual leader of the
Iran-aligned Hezbollah group. Some Western hostages
are believed held by factions linked to Hezbollah.
Fitzwater said the administration continues to pursue
leads and contacts that might glean information about
potential release of the hostages, but he would not re
veal what they were.
Fitzwater talked around the question of whether
President Bush had authorized any officials to conduct
talks on the hostages, except to say there were no talks
between the U.S. emissaries and Iran.
“There are no direct talks between the United States
and Iran authorized by the president,” he said.
“I don’t know who’s talking to who,” the spokesman
said.“But I guarantee you I’m never going to say that
nobody’s talking, because I know a lot of people are.
“I will never rule out meetings anywhere, anyplace,
anytime by anybody on the hostage question. Because
there are meetings happening. But high-level U.S. offi
cials, direct secret talks, no. Do I expect a breakthrough
or anything new happening? No.”
Fitzwater said the administration knows “of no new
evidence” to support hopes that the hostages’ release
might be forthcoming.’’
Last month, a Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Qabas, said “an
American personality” had met in Geneva with a rep
resentative of Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjanito
discuss the hostage issue. None of those supposedly in
volved was identified.
Eight Americans are held hostage in Lebanon, in
cluding Terry Anderson, the Associated Press chief
Middle East correspondent whdse captivity is nearing
the five-year mark, the longest period of any of those
held.
Former owner
of Greyhound
changes name
NEW YORK (AP) — Dogged by
an unclear corporate image, Grey
hound Corp. announced Tuesday it
is changing its name to Greyhound
Dial Corp. to distinguish itself from
the troubled nationwide Greyhound
busline that it formerly owned.
“This name change will help clar
ify who we are and what we do,”
Greyhound Dial Chairman John W.
Teets told a news conference in New
York.
The company, a diversified man
ufacturing and financial services
concern based in Phoenix, sold the
bus line in 1987 to Dallas investor
Fred Currey, who later merged it
with the Trailways bus system and
renamed the operation Greyhound
Lines Inc. Its drivers have threat
ened to strike on Friday in a wage
dispute.
Teets said the new name was cho
sen because of the importance of the
company’s Dial Corp. subsidiary, a
consumer products maker with
brands ranging from Dial soap to
Purex detergents to Lunch Bucket
microwave meals.
He said the word Greyhound was
retained as part of the name because
it is an integral part of the name of
several other subsidiaries, such as
Greyhound Financial Corp. and
Greyhound Food Management.
Exxon Corp. charged
with five indictments
for Alaskan oil spill
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
Justice Department announced a
five-count indictment against Ex
xon Corp. and its shipping sub
sidiary Tuesday night in the Ex
xon Valdez oil spill that fouled
Alaska’s coast last year.
U.S. Attorney General Richard
Thornburgh and deputies said
that if Exxon is convicted on all
counts, criminal fines could total
as much as $ 1.6 million.
However, the government
could also seek as much as $700
million more under federal laws
that allow recovery of twice the
amount of the proven loss caused
by the spill, U.S. Attorney Mark
Davis of Alaska told a Justice De
partment news conference.
Thornburgh said the indict
ment was presented to the grand
jury after a proposed plea deal
fell through. However, he did not
rule out the possibility of a deal in
the future.
“You’d have to ask the de
fendants,” Thornburgh said.
Assistant Attorney General
Dick Stewart said the federal in
dictment, brought by a grand
jury in Anchorage, accused Ex
xon Corp. and its shipping sub
sidiary of two felonies and three
misdemeanors.
The felonies, each of which
carries a maximum fine of
$500,000, accuse the company of
violating the Port and Waterways
Safety Act and the Dangerous
Cargo Act. The latter charge al
leges that Exxon “willfully and
knowingly violated a regulation
prohibiting any person from be
ing engaged on a crew if such
person is known to be physically
or mentally incapable” of per
forming his or her duties.
Joseph Hazelwood, captain of
the Exxon Valdez, faces criminal
charges in a separate action in
Alaska, accused of being drunk
and letting his ship get away from
him.
The three misdemeanor
counts accuse Exxon of:
• Violating the Clean Water
Act by illegally discharging pol
lutants into Prince William
Sound.
• Unlawfully discharging re
fuse, the oil.
• Violating the Migratory Bird
Treaty Act.
Each of the misdemeanor
counts carries a maximum pen
alty of $200,000, the Justice offi
cials said.
Bad brakes blamed for crash
WASHINGTON (AP) — Top federal safety officials
urged tougher standards for DC-10 jetliner brakes
Tuesday and blamed inadequate government reqi ire-
ments for a 1988 Texas runway crash that destroyed an
airliner.
The National Transportation Safety Board also
raised doubts about Federal Aviation Administration
certification and test procedures for all airliner brakes,
which it said may fail when airliners abort takeoffs at
the last minute.
The action came in the board’s investigation of a May
21 accident involving an American Airlines DC-10 at
Dallas-Ft. Worth Airport. It was the first time the board
had blamed inadequate FAA certification of an airliner
for a crash, said board member Jim Burnett. Certifica
tion of the DC-10 brakes system was made when the
model was introduced nearly two decades ago.
The NTSB also blamed the brake manufacturer, Lo
ral, in the aborted takeoff that injured eight of 254 peo
ple aboard the aircraft. The plane, which was scheduled
to fly to Frankfurt, Germany, was damaged beyond re
pair.
The problem is that brakes near their wear limit do
not have the same margin of safety as new ones, and the
FAA did not consider this when it certified the brakes
on the DC-10, said board members.
“We have already lost an airliner and we face the real
possibility of losing a plane full of people,” said Burnett
after the four-member panel approved a series of rec
ommendations to the FAA and airlines for improving
brake safety.
Burnett said the problem could be costly for the avi
ation industry because without new brake designs it
might involve reducing the capacity of airliners, the dis
tance they could fly, or increasing the length of run
ways.
Airlines have about 3,000 aborted takeoffs each year.
Most are executed at a low enough speed that braking
power, combined with reverse engine thrust, is ad
equate to stop the plane without damage.
But an average of about four high-powered reject
ions result in accidents each year, board members said.
Board investigators testified that only the newest
brakes are adequate to safely stop an airliner which has
to abort a takeoff near “V-l,” the velocity at which the
plane ordinarily must continue its takeoff. The Ameri
can plane was near that speed when a warning light and
audible signal indicated a wing slat problem.
The signal proved to be false, but the board did not
fault the pilot for aborting the takeoff.