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Students arraigned in hazing incidents Members of Pi Alpha Nu face charges following allegations of mistreating pledges By Elizabeth Izzo STA FF W RITER
PLATTSBURGH | Twenty-two students have now been indicted on criminal charges related to hazing at SUNY Plattsburgh. All but four of the students have been arraigned in Plattsburgh City Court for misdemeanor charges associated with incidents stemming from initiation rituals at Pi Alpha Nu.
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Robert Dresner, 21, charged with one count of hazing in the first degree, was arraigned in Plattsburgh City Court on Nov. 1 and again on Nov. 3. Dresner pleaded not guilty. Dressed in a black suit, pink button-down
shirt and a blue-striped tie, Dresner appeared calm and composed before the judge last Friday. A total of 10 pledges hoping to be initiated into the fraternity in February and September were subjected to “demeaning behavior, alcohol use and paddling,” authorities said. Pledges said they were repeatedly vomited on, dowsed with cups of urine and paddled, according to court documents. Dresner’s case was adjourned until Nov. 27.
‘I DON’T KNOW HOW I GOT THROUGH IT’
Statements filed with the Plattsburgh City Police Department and SUNY Plattsburgh University Police detailed a litany of abuses. One 19 year old student, whose name was redacted in the report, said that he had to eat baby food off the floor, make “snow angels” in piles of “rancid” trash on the floor and pick it up by hand, before having it dumped on him again 13 times. “The smell from the garbage was so bad I still have it stuck in my nose,” he said. » Hazing Cont. on pg. 11
Nearly two dozen former and present members of the Pi Alpha Nu fraternity have been charged in connection with alleged hazing at their off-campus fraternity house, pictured here. Photo by Elizabeth Izzo
‘Be your own self,’ humanitarian tells students
STATE, FEDERAL LAWMAKERS PUSH TO COMBAT LYME DISEASE New York faces “ticking time bomb” as authorities grapple to formulate cohesive strategy By Pete DeMola EDITOR
PLATTSBURGH | The northeast is the epicenter of what authorities are referring to as a Lyme disease epidemic. The tick-borne illness is characterized by agonizing pain, loss of memory and motor skills. While recovery is possible, patients have said the lack of effective treatment options has left them financially ruined. And the disease is only expected to spread. Over 90 percent of confi rmed cases nationwide are being reported from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Now state and federal health agencies are scram-
bling to hatch an effective response. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-Willsboro) is pushing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to make good on tracking performance indicators designed to monitor the disease. The lawmaker has co-signed a letter to Acting Health and Human Services Secretary Eric Hargan asking him to include those metrics in the 2019 Congressional Justification from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “This letter is aimed to create specific, measurable objectives to track progress as we combat Lyme Disease,” Stefanik said in a statement. “The more we know about Lyme, the more we can do to treat patients and educate families to stop the spread of this debilitating disease.” » Lyme Disease Cont. on pg. 8
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PLATTSBURGH | Le Ly Hayslip was just a kid when war upended her tranquil existence in central Vietnam. Government troops occupied her farming village in an effort to stave off the communist insurgence, and Ky La became the epicenter of the conflict. The rice farmer’s daughter fought against the Vietcong, and was captured and sentenced to death by the age of 14. But instead of being executed, Hayslip was tortured and raped by soldiers before being set free. Hayslip made her way to Saigon before journeying onward to California, leaving the war behind. In 1989, Hayslip became an international figure with the publication of her memoir, “When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman’s Journey from War to Peace,” which was later made into a film directed by Oliver Stone. » Vietnam Cont. on pg. 18
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