Word: zeta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HUNTER S. Thompson weights in with yet another of his inimitable tracts of Gonzo journalism, a rambling tale of how he learned of the whereabouts of his erstwhile companion Oscar Zeta Acosta, the 300-pound Samoan attorney of Fear and Loathing in Vegas fame. It turns out that Acosta is in fact a crazy Chicano militant who has traded in his law books for the accoutrements of drug smuggling. Studded with the usual bizarre quotations and extravagant graphics, Thompson's piece ends with a series of burned-out ruminations on the unseen forces in American society that coalesced to wreak...
...have been other deaths. Last year at the University of Nevada at Reno John Davies died after being forced to drink straight alcohol, whisky, vodka and gin, for more than 24 hours by a fraternity called the Sundowners. In New Jersey in 1974 William Flowers, a pledge to the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at Monmouth College, suffocated in a "grave" he had been forced to dig for himself on a rainswept beach...
...provide a trip for a junior Marquis de Sade. Hazing is clearly much less prevalent than it was during the college days of the current undergraduates' parents. One reason: whether it is outlawed or not, most students will not accept it. Says Senior Steve Taylor, president of the Zeta Psi house at the University of California at Berkeley (a position his father held 25 years ago after being branded on the arm as a pledge): "All that stuff, tubbing, paddling, branding is looked down upon today." Gary Ausman, assistant director of student services at the University of Washington, agrees...
...fraternities of the '70s have taken on some new dimensions. Though parties and interhouse sporting events are still popular, there is a growing interest in community projects. Last fall Miami's Alpha Epsilon Phi and its sister sorority, Delta Zeta, held a "showerthon"-during which students took showers for 360 straight hours in an especially rigged bathtub on the street-and raised more than $1,500 for the American Cancer Society. At the University of Kansas, the Interfraternity Council has assumed sponsorship of the semiannual campus blood drive...
...past few years, many fraternities have earned much good will for such community services. But their new image has recently been tarnished by the revival of hazing. At a pre-initiation hazing last fall at the Zeta Beta Tau chapter at New Jersey's Monmouth College, William Flowers, 19, was suffocated when a 5-ft.-deep mock grave in which he was lying collapsed. At Georgetown University, a fraternity pledge was hospitalized, according to campus rumor, after he was forced to chug-a-lug glass after glass of "purple Jesus," a potent mix of vodka, rum, grape, orange...