Education: Veteran Hazed

He got his still-painful leg injury and honorable discharge after two years in the European Theater. Quentin F. Soik, 22, of Milwaukee, veteran staff sergeant of the Army Air Forces, enrolled at the University of Wisconsin as a pre-law student last summer. He was pledged to Theta Chi fraternity.

By mid-October, Pledge Soik was thoroughly fed up with “assuming the position” to be paddled, with being waked up at 3 a.m. for more of the same, with being especially singled out for hazing because he laughed at upper classmen’s high jinks as juvenile mumbo-jumbo. He turned in his pledge pin, asked Dean Scott Goodnight for assignment to a dormitory room. The Dean questioned him closely, found that his fraternity elders had not only paddled him 27 times, but had made him bake himself at the fraternity hearth.

Last week Dean Goodnight announced that he had written to Theta Chi’s National President Frederick W. Ladue, demanding that the Wisconsin chapter’s charter be revoked.