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BadJocks Update: Fired Lacrosse Coach @ Franklin & Marshall College Considers Legal Action

Last week we reported on Lauren Paul, the women’s lacrosse coach at Franklin & Marshall College (PA) who was dismissed from the team last week over an alleged hazing incident. Reports are now coming out that both Paul, and some of the 11 players kicked off the team, are hiring lawyers to fight back.

Oh, and the few players that were left on the team decided to just end the season last week, rather than continue without their coach and star players.

No details have emerged about the alleged incident, but the timing of this entire thing seems odd to us. The Lancaster Police claim they got a tip about an incident from March 2011 back in February of 2012, about the time Paul was making cuts to the squad for this season. F&M was notified in March 2011 by the cops, but the administration took virtually no steps to investigate the claims until April 6th, 2012.

It could be that they did a very, very, very thorough investigation, but how long does it take to ask a dozen college girls who got drunk and what naughty things did they do to each other? Rumors are floating around that all of this uproar can be traced back to the parents of one player who was cut from the squad, but no one has confirmed that.

Let’s just say that we expect more details to come out about the F&M lacrosse program soon and it won’t be flattering.

Source: WHP-TV

Alleged Hazing Incident on College Women’s Lacrosse Team Cost Coach Job – Lauren Paul

Details are scarce on this one, but one fact stands out: Lauren Paul helped lead the Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster, PA) women’s lacrosse team to an NCAA Division III National Championship and now she’s out of a job. The cause? An alleged hazing incident last year, that involved as many as 11 upperclassman players on the team who are now all off the squad, but reportedly still in school. (At right, a photo of Coach Paul when she was hired by F&M.)

For “privacy reasons” F&M is not releasing the names of those kicked off the team, or the details of the incident which was anonymously reported to police this February. Interestingly, a formal investigation didn’t get started until April 10 (with women’s lacrosse season in full swing by then) but once completed the response was swift: Paul was gone and the team is now mostly freshman players, lead by the women’s field hockey coach.

Here’s more from the F&M Hazing Policy:

Hazing is a violation of College Policy and Pennsylvania State law. Hazing is defined as any action taken or situation created, intentionally—whether on or off campus or organizational premises—that are physically, emotionally, or psychologically humiliating or abusive toward an individual or selected group of individuals as part of the process of gaining entrance or acceptance into an established group, team, or organization—the “willingness” of the student to participate in said activity notwithstanding.

Anyone out there with details of this incident, want to spill the beans? BadJocks at Yahoo.com, if you do.

Source: Kansas City Star

Brits Shocked When Oxford Women’s Lacrosse Team Dresses New Members as Babies, Makes Them Drink Booze From Baby Bottles

Well look who just caught up with the rest of the world? Seems like every major news outlet in the United Kingdom had a story over the past few days about the “shocking” sports hazing incident that allegedly took place on the women’s lacrosse team at prestigious Oxford University. Based on photos posted on Facebook (not that again!) authorities are saying that first year players were dressed up as babies, complete with diapers (or nappies), forced to drink booze out of baby bottles while sitting on the laps of older players who pretended to be their mothers. And this is were the iniation starts to get a little weird.

According to reports, the the older players were dressed up as “chav” mothers, in jogging outfits, sporting lots of gold jewelry, smoking, and abusing their “babies.” Had to look that one up, and it appears “chav” is the UK equivalent to being white trash. (Some snooty Brit, correct me if I am wrong.) All told, a pretty bizarre scene, yet not too far from what we at BadJocks have seen over the past 10 years or so.

Among our favorites? The Michigan State women’s soccer team incident back in 2003, where frosh had Depends diapers taped to their bodies and then their legs pained red and white to turn them into giant tampons. Get it? We didn’t either. Or, the University of Memphis Woman’s Cross Country Team back in ’06, where the frosh were dressed as hookers and had obscenities scrawled on their bodies while they boozed it up.

The point being, this kind of crap goes on all the time, so we are only shocked that the UK news media is shocked that is happens.

DOZENS of pretty female students were forced into a booze-fuelled initiation ceremony at Oxford University — dressed up as BABIES. First year lacrosse team members were made to suck on dummies and neck alcohol from baby bottles during the degrading proceedings.

Shocking images of the Babies and Teenage Mums event – which appeared on Facebook – also showed the teenage girls rolling on a filthy floor while wearing NAPPIES. Meanwhile, older students — who played the role of ‘chav’ mums — wore tracksuits and gold jewelery while smoking and shouting abuse at their “babies”.

During the ceremony, which took place on Wednesday night, the younger students had to sit on the older girls’ laps and be “fed” baby bottles full of booze. The freshers were also made to lick baby food off paper plates as part of the ritual, which has been branded “extremely tasteless” by fellow students.

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3202637/Uni-girls-boozy-nappy-initiation.html#ixzz13wejBs9q