Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1914 — Brings Action for $7,000 for Hazing Damages. [ARTICLE]

Brings Action for $7,000 for Hazing Damages.

Miss Mabel Rogers, an orphan girl of Shoals, Ind., a first year student in the domestic science department at Purdue University, has brought an action for $7,000 damages against Misses Mary Sheridan of Attica, Ruth Cowan of Chicago, Helen Lee of Oxford, Mary Clark of Indianapolis, Agnes Phillips of Monroeville, Esther Kistner of Terre Haute, and May Blu of Star City, for alleges permanent injuries received on January 30, it( the girls’ dormitory at Purdue, when the seven girls entered her apartment, where she was partly disrobed, dragged her from her room; paiflted her chest and back with red ink. poured mucilage down her back, * stuck her with pins to compel her to bow down before them, and then threw her into a tub of cold water. The plaintiff alleges that she was ill at the time and vainly begged her assailants to desist. As a result of the hazing, she alleges that she is a nervous wreck, has partly lost her eyesight, and cannot continue her studies, as a result of her injuries. '