Possible criminal charges this time. Highlights include alleged beating, urinating on, and throwing horse feces on junior cavalry members. A&M cavalry unit suspended pending hazing investigation Associated Press COLLEGE STATION -- Texas A&M University's mounted cavalry has been suspended while police investigate hazing allegations. Lt. Gen. John Van Alstyne told the Bryan-College Station Eagle that he ordered the suspension Oct. 15, after hazing allegations were made against upperclassmen. "Not only are we looking at hazing, but other possible criminal charges, potentially assault," Brazos County Attorney Jim Kuboviak said. The newspaper reported Saturday that students are being investigated for beating other cavalry members, urinating on them and dousing them with water and horse feces. Hazing, which includes verbal or physical abuse, is illegal. Dean of student life, David Parrott, said possible punishment of the students who are under investigation by the university won't be considered until the criminal investigation by police is complete. In 1973, the Parson Mounted Cavalry was formed to reignite the legacy of A&M's horse-drawn artillery program. The program had died out after World War II. The cavalry previously was disbanded in 1991 when a woman cadet claimed she was attacked by other members. The cavalry was reinstated when she recanted her story. Other units of the Corps of Cadets also have come under scrutiny for hazing. The Fish Drill Team unit was reinstated in January after a suspension that began in 1997 based on a freshman who alleged hazing by upperclass advisers. Two allegations of hazing also arose earlier this year, but charges weren't filed in either case. Investigations were launched into pictures of cadets bound with duct tape in one incident. The other involved a group of cadets whom police found at a park bound and blindfolded. Van Alstyne said he doesn't think hazing is widespread within the campus organization. "I wouldn't anticipate I would find anything else in the Corps of the scope of the cavalry situation," he said.
You know...I can kind of understand the idea behind hazing, even though I don't agree with it. Some hazing, when done right, might be somewhat positive in the end if everyone is cool with it... But why in the hell would ANYONE EVER want to piss on someone else and then put horse **** on them? This goes well beyond hazing. This is just some sick dudes indulging in a very sick fetish of some kind.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!! Hell, from the inside looking around, I'm pretty confused myself. Thank god I have 2%er friends to hang around with.
So, how many times does this make the Corps "embarrassing" A&M again in the last 6 months?? 2?? 3?? or is it more than 3?? Which leads to this question: if the Corps keeps embarrassing the University, why in the hell do they (the Corps) continue to exist??
Well, just like any group, there are gonna be people who embarrass the group as a whole. I have one friend in the Corps, and he's a great guy. I have other friends who say the same thing about their friends in the Corps, but then these hazing things happen. Well, I don't know how to fix the problems in the Corps, and I won't pretend I do. My only opinion is basically, it's up to the guys in the Corps to step up and decide what they want to do. To many of these are followers and not leaders. So they stick to traditions that nowadays are looked down upon. Only when guys are ready to break the chains will the Corps not be looked down upon from the outside. Of course, more often than not, Aggies and Corps members don't really care what the outside world thinks. . .
As an Aggie I think that if it is proven that all that stuff actually happened, those guys should be thrown out of the University and that outfit disbanded forever. They ruined it for themselves and the people who would have actually been honored to be in that outfit that would have followed them. Throw them out.
Maybe, but if I were on the inside looking out I would probably only be able to see Corps sabers, piss and horse feces. I hope that I wouldn't begin to understand in that situation either.
Saw it. Hate it. This is not the first time the Cavalry has been disbanded. Nobody thought they'd bring the group back the first time. At least we all hoped they wouldn't. I don't know what it is about the Cavalry...but they can't seem to stay out of trouble.
Hazing............ I could tell you stories when I pledged Sig Ep at Texas Tech that would make your eyes bulge out. It was humiliating, degrading, and pathetic, and I feel sorry for those who have to resort to such bullsh!t (AND IT IS ALL BULLSH!T) just because of tradition or seniority.... Give me a fuc#ing break!
