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Most hazing does not result in death, of course, but if the practice is not always dangerous, it is often demeaning. At Michigan State University hazing was banned by 1950, but it remains an integral part of initiation rites at several fraternities. Senior Steve Ryckman lost interest in joining the Delta Sigma Phi house last year after he developed a burn on his nose from being forced to rub it along a carpet. "They wanted to see how much they could humiliate you," he recalls. "It was degrading." On the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois, nearly...
...years ago Charles S. Ryckman, an editor of Fremont, Neb., won the Pulitzer Prize with an editorial arguing that the reason Nebraska regularly re-elected Norris was that through him it could take a slap at the East. Since then this idea has gained much currency, but unfortunately almost no Nebraskans subscribe to it. They do not mind political irregularity for they are themselves politically irregular, frequently electing Democratic Governors at the same time that they vote Republican in national elections. Senator Norris, who has never had a political organization at home, has generally a more powerful individual appeal...
...Charles S. Ryckman of the Fremont (Neb.) Tribune, $500 for the year's best editorial: "The Gentleman from Nebraska," an appreciation of Insurgent Senator George William Norris. Extract: "Norris does not represent Nebraska politics. He is the personification of a Nebraska protest against the intellectual aloofness of the East. A vote for Norris is cast into the ballot box with all the venom of a snowball thrown at a silk hat. The spirit that puts him over is vindictive, retaliatory. Another Senator might get Federal projects, administrative favor, post offices and pork barrel favor for Nebraska, but the State...
...Embargo. If the Duff speech was somewhat stuffy all Canada was excited and agog last week over an Order-in-Council announced by the Hon. Edmond B. Ryckman, Minister of National Revenue. The O-in-C, a most drastic embargo, shut out of Canada virtually all Russian produce, including Soviet coal, wood pulp, lumber of all kinds, asbestos, furs...
...Ryckman-Minister of National Revenue...