The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-06-15
ROUGH TACTICS
ABOLISHED BY
STATE SCHOOLS
Press Survey Shows 'Haz-
ing During Hell Week
Has Ceased.
BY MARK H. KNIGHT
United Pres stan Correspondent

Rough tactics in limitations such
as Mrs. George Steinmetz ST.. Of
indianapolis charges caused the
death of her son George Jr. at In
diana university have all but
ceased to exist in leading educa-
tional institutions Of the state, a
symposium of statements from
those schools gathered by the United
Press indicates.
Mrs. Steinmetz, in her crusade
to protect future college students Of
this state from physical abuses
which endanger their health, may
find that there IS little or no fer
tile ground on which to work, the
statements indicate.
On the heels of Mrs. Steinmetz'
charges the dean of Indiana uni
versity issued a prepared statement
declaring that rough tactics have
been eliminated insofar as humanity
possible and will not be tolerated
in the future, on penalty Of eXpul-
sion.
Hazing has ceased to exist at
Purdue, a statement from that
school says. The annual tank
scrap" was abolished by a vote of
the students, and the nearest ap-
proach to oldtime hazing tactics is
found in fraternity limitations, held
during a prescribed period. ct may
be noted in this instance, however,
that Steinmetz' physical breakdown
was ascribed by his mother to just
such an initiation.
De PAW Modifies'
At De Paw university DR.. w. M.
Blanchard, dean of men, said today
that rough week" at fraternities
has been greatly modified in recent
years and practically abolished.
What remains of limitations comes
mostly under the category of ri
diculous stunts, which have caused
no injuries, Dean Blanchard said.
No set rule exists at Wabash col
Iege regarding rough week." but
college authorities report that dur
ing the past year rough tactics of
Greek letter organizations have been
greatly reduced. The college wishes
it understood that it froWns upon
such limitations for freshmen fra
ternity pledges, although it never
has taken definite steps to stop
such limitations.
During the past year three Wa
bash fraternities voluntarily abol-
ished rough week" and other cam
pus groups are said to be contem-
plating such action next fall. Haz-
ing at this school is said to have
come into general disfaVor during
the past two or three years, after
flourishing in the period Immediate
ly after the war. No student injuries
have ever been reported at the
school, it was emphasized. H.
49,. Butler Prohibits.
Hazing has. for. a number of years
been strictly and effectively pro-
hibited at Butler college, the pub
licity Office reported. Fraternity
limitations, however, are governed
largely by the groups themselves,
and are confined, it was said, to
what might be termed monkey
business" Padding and other
physical abuses have died out in
the larger Greek fraternities, and
rough week" or probation week, .
is devoted almost entirely to rigor-
Gus DrOpran of StIIdv and hard
work on the part of pledges
No semblance of hazing or other
rough stuff" ever has existed at
Notre Dame, where there are no
fraternities, no traditional conflicts,
and where freshmen fraternize with
upper classmen from the day they
enter the school, on terms of equal
ity, said reports from the South
Bend school.