Wednesday, June 25, 1986
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University Daily Kansan
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Texas student suing fraternity for hazing
United Press International
DALLAS — A former University of Texas student, who claims he caught a near-fatal infection in a hazing incident, has filed a lawsuit against Apha Tau Omega fraternity.
In the suit, filed Monday in state district court in Dallas, Lee M. Roever of University Park seeks unspecified damages for injuries resulting from the initiation incident last January in which he and at least two dozen other pledges committed a number of offenses week, perform calisthenics, and were continually pelled with raw eggs.
Rever, then a UT freshman, cut his hand on a thorn when he tried to escape during the fifth day of "Hell Week." the suit says. The eggs provided a fertile medium for the growth of bacteria that resulted in a massive streptocic infection that left him hospitalized with a 106-degree fever, the suit contends.
"He damn near died," said Mike
Schmidt, Roever's lawyer. "He got the infection in his hand and developed a raging fever. To save them, they had to go in and operate."
Rever was forced to resign from the university because the infection forced him to miss so much work and it remains unpaid, he remains under a doctor's care.
The pledges were pelted with eggs for four days and prohibited from taking showers or changing clothes, and were allowed only to staple bounce baths from the same toilet. Other officials said eight other students also developed serious staph infections from the raw eggs.
Fraternity members also forced Reever to wear women's clothing and undergarments, taped his body with adhesive tape, forced him to listen to loud music for hours at a time, shocked him with an electric cattle prod and locked him in a closet and threw firecrackers under the door, the suit says.
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WASHINGTON — The Senate easily approved a historic tax-reform bill yesterday, virtually guaranteeing that, in this year, Congress would complete the most sweepive rewriting of the landmark tax code since World War II.
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Senate approves tax-reform bill
Passage of the bill by the Republican-led chamber came on an overwhelming 97-3 vote, with the three being all Democrats. The bill would limit the role of the House, which last year approved its own version of tax reform.
Both measures would curtail popular tax deductions and loopholes in return for the lowest tax rates in about a half century. The world would be less dependent on individual tax for lower individual taxes and take about 6 million poor people off the tax rolls.
The Senate bill would exchange the current 14 individual tax brackets in return for a two-rate scheme of 15 percent and 27 percent. The House measure, however, has a four-rate structure of 15 percent, 25 percent, 35 percent and 38 percent, along with a number of other major differences.
The Senate plan, piece together by Finance Committee Chairman Bob Packwood, R-Ore., revived the tax reform issue, which has suffered from its slow pace in the past year and appeared morbid less than two months ago.
The ability of the Senate to guide its measure through the floor seemed to almost guarantee that the conference committee would, perhaps by September, emerge with a compromise proposal to reform the nation's tax laws — an item President Reagan has made his top domestic
Fights can be expected not only on the tax rates that will be included in a final measure, but over sensitive deductions, such as those for individual retirement account contributions that would be mostly gutted by the Senate measure. They would be kept intact by the House.
rate included in the Senate bill.
priority.
However, there remain several key problems, including arguments that the Senate bill does not do enough for compliance. The measure is too tough on business.
Packwood said yesterday that he expected a conference with the House to join the best parts of both parties in a conversation about the past that he plans to hold firm to the
Although it is designed to be "revenue-neutral" — neither raising nor lowering government revenues over the next five years — the bill would hire business taxes by about $100 billion in that period and use that money for individual rate reductions. It would, however, cut the top corporate tax rate from 46 percent to 33 percent.
It would virtually tear apart often-abused tax shelters and enact a strong minimum tax to make sure the wealthy and corporations could not avoid taxes. But it also would gut some popular middle-class deductions, such as those for IRA contributions.
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