The Way We News -

The Way We News - On the Today show this morning, Amy Jacobson of WMAQ TV did a report on some very shocking hazing at a high school in the Chicago area, where senior girls harassed junior girls under the pretext of a powederpuff football game, to "initiate" them into their senior year.

And I suppose the proceedings - beatings (including with a baseball bat), kicking, pummelling, pushing through the mud, force-feeding fecal matter - all in all, some pretty ghastly stuff that resulted in five injuries (stitches, broken bones) and a bacterial infection from the fecal matter. It seemed that at least five students videotaped the festivities.

And yet, what was the most jarring part of the report? To me, anyway?

In her report, Ms. Jacobson (one of whose associates went to the high school involved, and was familiar with an earlier, more innocent version of the initiation) described the way the event was carried out "back in the day".

I'd like to look ahead to Network News, 2010:

Yo yo yo, K Cou in Da House! Givin' a shout out to ma homies wit' da Columbia School of Journalism Possss-seeee!

Yo, word up for ma homey, M-Dog Lauer..."

Not that I'd mind, per se. Just saying.

Posted by Mitch at May 7, 2003 07:25 AM