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Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Recall Those More Innocent Days…

…when a Northwestern University women’s sport team got in trouble because some of them wore sandals to meet President Bush…

That was lacrosse. This latest thing is soccer.

Northwestern suspended its women's soccer team Monday in response to photographs of a hazing incident that were posted on a Web site.

The suspension will keep team members from participating in organized athletic activities, Mark Murphy, Northwestern's athletic director, said in a statement.

…The photographs showed women's soccer players wearing only T-shirts and shorts or underwear. Many of the players were covered in marker, and some appeared to be drinking beer. Other photographs showed players giving lap dances for what the captions said were Northwestern men's soccer players. The captions said the dances were a punishment.

……Bob Reno, whose Web site, badjocks.com, published the photographs, said he found them on a student file-sharing network while searching for photographs about the Duke case.


The freshmen being hazed were at one point blindfolded, hands tied behind their backs, and marched around.