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Six Sorority Sisters Arrested After Bloody Pledge Week Hazing
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John Del Signore
Published Jan 28, 2010
Modified Jan 28, 2010
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Six members of the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority at Rutgers have been arrested on charges of aggravated hazing. One unidentified woman tells the Star-Ledger she was struck 201 times with a wooden paddle during pledge week, and "on the eighth day—unable to sit, her buttocks covered with blood clots and welts—she went to the hospital." The woman says, "They told us there was no hazing, that they didn’t believe in it." But then the paddles came out, each one a foot long and six inches wide. Police say at least three women reported injuries and bleeding, but one pledge puts the number at seven. In response, Rutgers immediately suspended Sigma Gamma Rho, an African-American sorority founded in 1922.
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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