Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1895 — HAZING IN A MISSOURI COLLEGE [ARTICLE]

HAZING IN A MISSOURI COLLEGE

Student Tucker Terribly Maltreated Upon Initiation to the Sigma Nu. J. Tumor Tucker, a new-eemer at the State University at Columbia, Mo., wanted to join the Sigma Xu fraternity, and wns initiated the other night. It was a plain case of hazing. First he was bound hand and foot and blindfolded and gagged. Then he was beaten with stuffed clubs for a while and was next put into a coffin for burial. The coffin was carried

out and put in a spring wagon, and away the funeral train marched. Finally the athletic grounds were reached, and he was buried. Then he was taken out and stripped and thrown into a mud hole and then rolled in sand. Then he was kicked and induced by the plausible story of the leader to sing and dance. The hour was close to midnight, and he sang “Won't You Be My Sweetheart?” and kept step ns well as he could. Then he was hung up by the arms for a while, and was next taken to a haystack and given several sapid slides. Then he was branded with lighted cigarettes, ordered to dress, and about 2 a. m. was taken home. An investigation has been ordered by thg faculty, and it will go hard with the guilty ones.