Archive - Oct 16, 2006

Over 9 million people have profiles on the expanding world of Facebook now, but this growing community lost a member on Sept. 17, when Danielle Metcalf, a sophomore at the University of Connecticut, terminated her Facebook account.

“It started out as a fun thing,” she said, “but it’s become too serious.”

In 2002, the football team at Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh was banned from the playoffs for a hazing incident. Perennially one of the top teams in the state, Central Catholic had its season cut short because two players on the team held down one of their teammates and slapped him in the face with their genitals.