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Article: Fraternities Under Scrutiny As Animal Cruelty Surfaces; Humane Society Pushes for Programs to Discourage Abuse
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- The Washington Post
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- February 8, 2004
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Fraternity brothers have dropped a puppy off a Mississippi River
bridge, beaten a goose to death with a golf club and abandoned an
unconscious, intoxicated pig in a park.
Most recently, some Phi Kappa Psi members killed, skinned, burned
and ate a raccoon at the University of Georgia.
These and other acts on campuses across the country have drawn the
furor of animal lovers and others who say such abuse has grown into a
dangerous trend because it is too often treated as college high
jinks.
"Animal cruelty is a crime and certainly can't be accepted. Years
ago, it had to be made clear that rape is a crime," said Ann
Chynoweth, counsel to investigative services for the Humane Society
of the ...