GIRL RAGGERS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 13, 3 June 1914, Page 6

GIRL RAGGERS.

VICTIM WANTS DAMAGES. PAINTED HER RED. In the Supreme Court at Lafayette, ;.]••' ; ana, U.r-i.A., Miss -Mabel R<gers, a ; il year "'udvnt in Purdue Ci.-.ersity, Vis entered an action, claiming .'.IS(H) as ' ■.'■•i.'ig'cs for iiijurv- to her eyesi'iht and nerves, entailed, as she says. h\ brutal ,Y-'.":ing at v! hands of senior stu-d-mis. The latter belong to prominent families, am! they are highly indignant bee;-.use the pl.tintiif, iii a most unsportsmanlike manner, "peaches" concerning he"i. says it New York paper. They wiv PnrdncV. record in ragging, or "hazing." as i; i ■ nere generally called, is no worse than lh:it of other colleges for girls or hoys, and much better than ■aime. Miss Rogers is an orphan, pretty, but in ! ->or l:e".'rh. end has often be 11 absent fro::i her cl-i-'ses through illne«-<. In human- la.-l. she says, she was in her

-••■■■'■ preparing studies when '!>■ "i» was ■i knock at tile door. She opened it, and she asserts that one of the def 'dants

rr.shed in and dragged her out. Then she was met by six other-girls, ,nd the seven pounced upon her. Tin y first -mothered her screams and then -tripped her of her clothing. One girl r 11, she alleges, and secured a bottle of rid ink, and painted her chest, face, hae' and neck. ILL At THE TIME. When tliey had finished this diversion they poured a bottle of gum over her back, and stuck her with pins to make her kneel. After this treatment they threw her into a tub of water and disappeared. "I was ill at the time," the girl deposed, "and I told my assailants this when they attacked me, but they paid no attention to ray pleadings, and treated me as if I were without feelings."

Miss Rogers made no mention . f the length of time she remained in fli■■ bath tub nr' how she was rescued, bvJ, said she became unconscious and later suffered hysteria to such an extent that she was compelled to take treatment at the hospital. Miss Blue, a prepossessing girl of twenty, gave out .a statement that it was customary for first-year girls to fag for their seniors, and if they refused tlicv were disciplined, but the ragging of Miss Rogers she described as a bit of innocent school fun. Three of the girls named in the suit suffered from nervous prostration, arid their parents had to be summoned to the university.