Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - February 18, 1967, Winnipeg, Manitoba Its a sort of says the Doc the High school Egghead crosses it and it is assumed that he becomes a with pen and Unwin followed scores of students through their he was with them for the entire week before initiation a period in which they were made to feel inferior and left highly fearful of what would happen to them at the hell night they Are exposed to daily sarcasm and ridicule by the he the tone Early in this week is jocular and no serious and the pledges the would be fraternity members respond with facetious mock compliance to the Brothers demands that for exam Wear strange hats on Campus at All or drink while standing on their the Brothers react to facetious responses of the pledges by making a Black Mark in a Book the pledge is required to carry at the implication being that the score will be tallied and settled during the More unpleasant procedures at the end of the each Day the Brothers confront the pledges with accusations of possessing debased sexual and physical to which the pledge is required to As the tone of the proceedings becomes More there is More verbal aggression by the and in Many of the resentful or apprehensive pledges manifestations of anxiety become Unwin was with the students during hell night and he reports some of the stresses to which the initiate is subjected involve physical Dis Comfort such As exposure to being struck forcibly on the exposed buttocks with paddles and recurrent prolonged periods of strenuous other procedures Are noted for their emotional they include mock branding in which the initiate anticipates the impression of the fraternal insignia into his skin with a re hot eating distaste Ful continual verbal harass ment by the Brothers and prolonged third degree Unwin reconstructs one interrogation incident this Way an 18yearold student was brought into a dark room which was completely Bare except for a straight Back chair in the was told to sit Down by one of the Brothers who hid led him in and then a Strong Light was turned on the Light was Strong enough to obscure the people around him and from out of the darkness beyond the inquisitors lashed what makes you think youre Good enough to join this fraternity someone asked in a Sharp the unnerved by the shouting fumbled for his there is no need for you to get someone else put in with mock is it True that you have homosexual tendencies another inquisitor before the now befuddled Bov could one was brought into a dark Sai in straight Back chair and was interrogated by the Brothers while a Strong Light almost blinded there was another question would you agree with us that you show signs of being a mental defective the boy was bombarded with questions like these for without sleep for about 20 hours and physically exhausted through violent he was finally let out of he later admitted he had come close to procedures such As these completely confuse the initiates and in unwind casebook is this observation confusion could be inferred in some cases by the responses of initiates to interrogation concerning their Confidence in their own several after preliminary protest and acquiesced to the extent of reluctantly agreeing to undergo debasing experiences should acceptance into the fraternity be conditional on such behaviour and then Only after reassurance that every brother had undergone such activity in his own in no such activity was planned or indulged in by the the discussion was part of a carefully conducted interrogation technique Akin to those employed by totalitarian regimes to induce shame and Unwin plans 10 go on with his research into of one he is fraternity initiations create significant stress for those being initiated hut the students can take if the initiates he studied can be used As a then the average Cana Dian University student is less concerned with physical hardship than he is with what his companions think of on the basis of this some of the Mcgill fraternities Are already plan Ning to alter their initiation they plan to place less emphasis on the physical aspects and More on the pure psychological ridicule and humiliation Are hard to says if a student thinks he cant take what others then he can become very j How to combat crime and delinquency by stronger some will by stricter by better by stamping out by enlarging economic oppor by improving race these undoubtedly Are Steps in the right but do they really offer a so Lution to the critical social problems of our times is a trained a full dinner pail and financial Security any guarantee of moral citizenship we already have the finest body of Law Ever devised to meet the demands of human our people Are better informed and better educated than Ever wages Are unemployment Leisure time More private Charity and Public Aid provide unprecedented help for the poor and under yet crime and delinquency reach new with its tragic consequence of broken is increasingly promoters of commercial gambling Are in the upper income tax traffickers in lewd and pornographic a ticks and films promote to their own financial an inordinate preoccupation with the immoral aspects of the need of for a sociological approach to these grievous but the moral principles on which our society is founded have their origin and roots in religious Prin and if the Challenge of crime and delinquency is to be successfully it must be through a renewed application of these principles to All the social problems of our if these problems Shock and trouble As they surely we invite you to read a new pocket size pamphlet entitled religious approach to social it offers enlightening statistics on the causative factors in crime and delinquency the relation of individual responsibility to the Public and the ways in which we can personally help to preserve a moral write ask for pamphlet Well Send it free upon your request without and no body will Call on free mail Coupon today1 Petoie Send me pomp of unlit Ltd Rafti 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