McPherson was represented at trial by Grady C. Irvin, who earned fame representing former National Baptist Convention President Henry Lyons on embezzlement charges in the late 1990s, and Charles " Chuck " Hobbs, who later garnered national attention while representing several Florida A & M University students in the " Kappa Hazing " trial televised on CourtTV in 2006.

* Hazing Tradition: When hazing was legal, the Beta Kappa Phi pledges were tarred and feathered using molasses on the College's Quad.

* Hazing Tradition: When hazing was legal, the Omega pledges wore hangman's nooses around campus all week.

* Hazing Tradition: When hazing was legal, the Delts made their pledges wear burlap underwear.

* Hazing Tradition: When hazing was legal, the Kappa Kappa Kappas would write " KKK " on pledges foreheads in lipstick and parade them in front of The Shack.

* Hazing Tradition: When hazing was legal, every pledge was crammed into a Kenarden phone booth and told to exchange underwear.

* Hazing Tradition: When hazing was legal, the Rabbi's " baptized " their pledges by cutting their bangs in a straight line across their forehead.

* Hazing Tradition: When hazing was legal, ninth section pledges held a shoe shining service in the student union ( now the Rubbermaid center ).

* Hazing Tradition: When hazing was legal, the Pi Kappa pledges had to take their worst jeans and write " Peanut " on the butt in Yellow.

* Hazing: The first Alpha Gamma Phi pledge class was driven to Chautauqua, New York, for an initiation ceremony.

Hazing of French military pilot at 1, 000 hours flight time

Every year a Hazing Regatta sails the river downwards during the celebrations of the beginning of the year at the University of Chile.

* Hazing Tradition: The Zeta Pledge Class President had to carry a pitchfork with her at all times while she is on campus.

New York also has specific laws against Hazing when such threats are made as requirement to join an organization.

Hazing is an often ritualistic test and a task, which may constitute harassment, abuse or humiliation with requirements to perform random, often meaningless tasks, sometimes as a way of initiation into a social group.

Hazing is often used as a method to promote group loyalty and camaraderie through shared suffering ( male bonding in fraternities ), either with fellow participants, past participants or both.

Hazing has been reported in a variety of social contexts, including sports teams, academic fraternities and sororities ( see fraternities and sororities ); high schools ( in the sense of secondary education ); college and universities ; groups, like competition teams, fan clubs, social groups ; secret societies and even certain service clubs ; competitive sports teams ; and armed forces.

Hazing through the Internet, is the expected virtual labor of newcomers with complete obedience, and no restraint.

Hazing activities are defined as any act or attempt to embarrass, humiliate, intimidate, ridicule, shame or endanger physically or mentally any person, or to compel physical activity or do physical or emotional harm to any person, or to require consumption or ingestion of liquids, food, or other materials.

Hazing is the practice of rituals and other activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group.

Hazing is seen in many different types of social groups, including in gangs, sports teams, schools, military units, workplaces and fraternities.

Hazing is often prohibited by law and may comprise either physical ( possibly violent ) or psychological abuse.

Hazing is not allowable by any organization on campus ( enforced by state law ), but most especially in any fraternity or sorority.

* Françoise Daucé, Elisabeth Sieca-Kozlowski: Dedovshchina in the Post-Soviet Military: Hazing of Russian Army Conscripts in a Comparative Perspective.

Hazing is not permitted or tolerated during any part of Firecrafter's program.

`` Only a relative handful of such reports was received '', the jury said, `` considering the widespread interest in the election, the number of voters and the size of this city ''.

The 1 / 4 abacus, which is suited to decimal calculation, appeared circa 1930, and became widespread as the Japanese abandoned hexadecimal weight calculation which was still common in China.

This view was widespread prior to the 1960s, but has almost no supporters among specialists today.

The first abjad to gain widespread usage was the Phoenician abjad.

Kocharyan's re-election as president in 2003 was followed by widespread allegations of ballot-rigging.

Arcadianism was based on nostalgic memories of rural England, and led to the widespread creation of orchards and gardens.

It is clear that widespread respect was paid to animals as the abode of dead ancestors, and much of the cults to dangerous animals is traceable to this principle ; though there is no need to attribute an animistic origin to it.

* Slavery was more widespread at Athens than in other Greek cities.

In the Americas archery was widespread at European contact.

Even at this time, Ethernet's widespread acceptance suggested it was to become a de facto standard.

After widespread adoption of the COX-2 inhibitors, it was discovered that most of the drugs in this class increased the risk of cardiovascular events by 40 % on average.

Historically, before the advent of widespread digital technology, ASP was the only method by which to manipulate a signal.

His government was a military despotism resting upon a well-appointed army ; it was administered through officials absolutely subservient to an inflexible will and controlled by a widespread system of espionage ; while the exercise of his personal authority was too often stained by acts of unnecessary cruelty.

The claims of Hawkins were largely dismissed, but this was not the case for Alexander Thom's work, whose survey results of megalithic sites hypothesized widespread practice of accurate astronomy in the British Isles.

In an official review commissioned by UK government ministers it was reported that the needless use of anti-psychotic medication in dementia care was widespread and was linked to 1800 deaths per year.

In the Anglosphere, most notably in Anglo-America, autumn is also associated with the Halloween season ( which in turn was influenced by Samhain, a Celtic autumn festival ), and with it a widespread marketing campaign that promotes it, in the U. S. A.

There were widespread protests against The Birth of a Nation, and it was banned in several cities.

A number of companies wanted to license the COCONET GUI but Coconut Computing chose not to, and as a result, a competing approach called Remote Imaging Protocol ( RIP ) emerged and was promoted by Telegrafix in the early to mid 1990s but it never became widespread.

Bicycles and horse buggies were the two mainstays of private transportation just prior to the automobile, and the grading of smooth roads in the late 19th century was stimulated by the widespread advertising, production, and use of these devices.

The language and its variants became widespread on microcomputers in the late 1970s and 1980s, when it was typically a standard feature, and often part of the firmware of the machine.

As a result of its free availability, knowledge of BASIC became relatively widespread ( for a computer language ) and BASIC was implemented by a number of manufacturers, becoming fairly popular on newer minicomputers like the DEC PDP series and the Data General Nova.