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February 28 - March 6, 2006
Frat brothers start fresh
New Sigma Nu members
confront the hazing issue
Catherine Roberts
Staff writer
CUʼs oldest fraternity, Sigma
Nu, attempts to rise from the rubble
with almost exclusively new mem-
bers. The brothers elected their
new executive board leaders this
Monday, including newly appoint-
ed President Scott Miller and Vice
President Davis Bickford.
In the beginning of February,
the CU Greek system received its
most recent in a series of blows
with the suspension of almost all
the members of Sigma Nu. Those
27 who were suspended will regain
full membership as alumni after
they graduate, but until then the
Sigma Nu crisis raises questions
about the nature of hazing and frat
life at CU.
“We were told to get out in
five days. It was hostile,” said
sophomore and suspended Sigma
Nu member Jonathan Fisher. “The
definition of hazing is so broad and
unspecific that practically anything
is hazing.”
However, CU officials said
the definition of hazing was ade-
quate to rule in this case.
“I have been assured by the
people who did the investigation
that there is not only no doubt
Volleyball champ Nu'u will compete on national team in May
CP Photo/Haydn Strauss
Junior setter Ashley Nu’u
warms up during practice on
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For the students, by the students.
that it was hazing, but that it was
serious and egregious,” said Mark
Stein, Greek advocate for fraterni-
ties at CU.
The University of Coloradoʼs
Office of Greek Affairs defines
hazing as “any action taken or situ-
ation created intentionally, wheth-
er on or off fraternity premises, to
produce mental or physical dis-
comfort, embarrassment, harass-
ment, or ridicule.”
According to Stein, this defi-
nition of hazing is somewhat gray,
but there is a simple way to look
at it.
“If the whole chapter is doing
it all together, no matter how
nasty it is, itʼs not hazing. If the
freshmen are on one side of the
room, and the actives are on the
other side pointing and laughing,
then thatʼs hazing,” Stein said.
“If people are confused about the
relationship between fraternities
and hazing, Sigma Nu should be a
clarification. If you haze your new
members you are in dire straits.”
This may be especially true in
the case of Sigma Nu. The former
president of Sigma Nuʼs Delta Beta
chapter, Aaron Schlosser, said the
fraternity was created in response
to hazing at another fraternity,
See SIGMA NU, page 5
Bridget Blanning
Staff Writer
For Ashley Nuʼu, Argentina
will have to wait. An opportunity
to play at the national level in New
Orleans made her change her sum-
mer plans.
The junior setter on the
Colorado volleyball team planned
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Freshman business major Scott Miller sits outside the Sigma Nu
house Wednesday Feb. 22. Miller, who was the president of his
pledge class, is the newly elected Sigma Nu president.
to pack her bags after final exams
and fly across the equator this
summer. But after being selected
as a member of the 2006 Womenʼs
USA National Volleyball A2 Team
mid-February, Nuʼu had to say no
to Argentina.
“Itʼs a better opportunity,”
said Nuʼu of playing with a team
made up of the top collegiate play-
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ers and placed just below the USA
National Team. She will be the
sole representative of the Big 12
Conference.
Nuʼu, a psychology major, is
a Smoky Hill High School grad
from Aurora, Colo. She played
on the USA Volleyball's Junior
National
See NU'U, page 12
Vol. 55 Issue 7
Women
business
profs new
priority
Jay Holley
Staff Writer
For entrepreneur and CU
graduate Michael Leeds, one
of the most important aspects
of character is social respon-
sibility - a trait he carries on
from his family to the business
school.
“When we were growing
up, our familyʼs business had
an established philosophy of
being very socially responsible
and living by those values,”
Leeds said. “Ethics was always
at the center of the business.”
Leeds continued to remain
active in CMP Media until the
family sold it in 1999. After
selling what he calls a model of
a socially responsible business,
Leeds and his family began
searching for a way to give
something back.
“We were looking for oppor-
tunities to form a charitable foun-
dation, and we were very focused
on education,” Leeds said. “The
school had a genuine interest in
social and environmental respon-
sibility.”
After much discussion with
the administration of the busi-
ness school, the Leeds family
decided to endow the school.
Upon accepting a gift of $35
million from the Leeds family
in 2001, the school promised
the family it would make efforts
to ensure 40 percent of tenured
or tenure track faculty members
would be female. However, the
endowment is not in any way
See LEEDS, page 4
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