The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-12
PURDUE GIRL HAZBRS
TO FIGHT $1,000 SUIT
Goods Expect to Show PrOvOca-
ton in Noisy Fudge Party
in Dormitory.
VICTIMS EYES INJURED
Says Her Earning Capacity Was
Impaired From Dousing
in Cold Water.

TEHkE lIArrE. April I1.--Gcorge 7 Kis-
ner. lawyer and politician OF this city.
met with other fathers W the seven young
women students at Purdue University
who have been sued for $1,000 by Miss
Mabel Rogers, whom they hazed, and the
fathers decided TO make Il strenuous de-
fence. They employed State Senator WIN
A. Wood OF Lafayette as chief counsel.
MIR. kisner says the girls admit that
perhaps the plaintiff was handled roughly,
but no more 60 than often Is the case In
tho girls dormitory, Ladies' Hall, II 10
called. but the defence will try to show
provocation
Miss Rogers was giving a fudge party
ard complaint was made OF the noise, Of
the party Miss Rogers was asked re-
peatedly TO stop the noise because 1t dis
turbed students VINO were studying.
Finally the seven Young women went
to her room, took her out. tore of her
kimono aud doused her In tub Of
water. She saws this last Ill use caused
hysteria and perhaps has permanently In
tured her eyes. Physicians say that Miss
Rogers had to remain In dark room
for many days on account OF her eyesight
and will never be strong again.
Miss Rogers, who is back In school,
says some OF the girls are not as nice
to mo az they might be. but great
many of them are standing by me" She
says she has no feeling of anger toward
tho hazers, but her only desire In that
she be recompensed and this because she
believes her earning capacity has been
decreased by reason OF the physical dis
ability resulting from the hazng.
Miss Rogers says that she is the only
support Of her mother and that she had
taught school four years to save enough
money to take the domestic science course
at lnr,itI. "a IA mi aar A larRaF
salary IN that department of the public
school system.
1T was no college prank said she.
because a prank would not have rem
dered me unconscious and sent me TO a
hospital for weeks. Thirty girls live In
Ladies' Hall. The seniors live on the
second floor and the freshmen, of whom
| am one live on the floor above.
"On January % We we're having .
fudge party and the seniors ordered US
to be quiet. When we did not comply,
for we were having lots OF fun, you bet
the seven came after me. They not only
tore or my kimouo. but they poured red
ink and mucilage over me and prcked 1 a
with pins The more resisted the worse
| was treated. and finally tainted"
President W. t. stone says the faculty
made an investigation and considered the
motive FOR the action by the seniors. The
girls evidently intended to play prank
ne salui ana the serious results were acci-
dental
For that reason the faculty exonerated
the girls. The university president re-
CARDS the damage suit as private affair
between the girls and Miss Rogers
Purdue Is a State supported institution
Within year Young man was killed
In i scrap" and Tor a number OF wears
'pranis' have gone SO IAI ~ to attract
attention over the state. There has been
- resultant sentiment which means a
legislative invest. CATION next winter.
The student periodical, the Exponent,
says
THE whole affair seems To he uncalled
FOR and II there is any good attached to
the incident II will be the impetus for the
abolition OF such treatment Of freshmen
Every man and woman al Purdue regrets
the affair"
MI k!sner says the students do not
treat the matter seriously. lie says thar
the studeuta are Jorulnr about IL and
that when the name o; oua OF the accused
girls was called IN class and she WAS
absent student responded: In tail"
This cause laughter that nearly spoiled
the recitation.
Miss Rogers ia from Shoals Ind. The
seven defendants are May Blue. Star
city. Agnes Phillips. Monroeville; Mary
, lark, Indianapolis Esther Kisner, Terre
liaute; Helen Lee, oxford, Mary Sheri-
dan. Att.ca. and Ruth Cowan. Chicago