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The Indianapolis Star Friday, September 24, 1329 Let It Out What's on readers' minds? IPD officers, country music and dry cleaning pricing. Page 2 COMICS 4 ANN LANDERS 2 PUZZLES 6 TELEVISION 6,7 1 InfoLine: 624-INFO (4636) Online: www.starnews.com LIFE IN THE 'SOS (Oil Study finds college-level athletics hit by hazing ufeiusand JjJf -C reuteius Vf that you I' AjW might I otherwise 1 i It. TTT? II "'I L. -1 Staff Photos Rich Miller DOG CROSSING: Bailey runs across the street on the way back to owner Larry Taylor's office after running a few errands together. The 8-year-old golden retriever is a regular at Taylor's workplace in Greencastle.

Pe i- I a be nice to go to work and wort I If your office goes to the dogs (or cats), it may be a good thing, say many with four-pawed co-workers. I i brought her cat Spooky ever since. By Gregory Weaver STAFF WRITER ouldn't it i i I spend most of the day napping in a comfy corner office? The stress-control manager at Prism Data Systems in Lebanon gets away with it most every day. And even EL KITTY to work Hp COMPANION: Sherry Mason one day and he's been there t', mil 4 1 4- rr fw-i What else we're reading: From Borders Books Music at River Crossing, here are the Top 5 books that, as of last Sunday, weren't on The New York Times' best-seller list: 1. The Devil's Playground by Greg Garrison ($19.95, Cumberland House Publishing).

The lawyer and WIBC-AM (1070) talk-show host's novel takes readers to the brink of nuclear war as Arab terrorists attempt to take over the United States. 2. Bird Watching by Larry Bird ($24.95, Warner Books). The basketball great shares his life story, from his days with the Bos ton Celtics to his thoughts about coaching the Indiana Pacers. Tl.

ICC AAtfS by Nicholas Evans ($7.99, DeU Publishing). The best-selling author of The Horse Whisperer tells the story of a woman passionate about wolves trying to save them from being slaughtered in a Montana town. 4. The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader by John Maxwell ($14.99, Thomas Nelson Publishers). The author-speaker explains the character traits necessary to become a successful leader.

5. Go Native! by Carolyn Harstad ($24.95, Indiana University Press). The author shows the benefits of using native plants and wildflowers and explains how to garden with plants native to the lower Mid- west. A second act: The 1931 wuriitz- er pipe organ that was a fixture at Indianapolis' Paramount Music Palace from 1979 until the restaurant closed in 1995 has a new home. The organ is being moved to Ellenton, Fla just north of Sarasota, where it will become a showpiece at a restaurant called The Roaring 20's Pizza and Pipes, scheduled to open at the end of October.

Dwight Thomas and Bill Vlasak, both Hoosiers, will be performers at the restaurant. They write the songs: The indi- anapolis Songwriters Associa-; tion's 15th annual showcase will be from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. today in the Fountain Room, 1111 Prospect St. Eighteen professional and ama- teuf songwriters from I i central Indiana will 'h be performing orifii- nal songs.

Donations will be accepted. Stuff and nonsense: on Monday, WTHR (Channel 13) anchorman John Stehr was promoting an upcoming story on the Carmel swim coach who was charged with failure to report a sexual assault against one of his students. Stehr said: "Tune in at 6 to find out what the coach allegedly did not do." Compiled from staff reports by staff writer Marc D. Allan, who can be reached at (317) 633-9398 or mallanstamews.com millennium moment (Until the end of the year, millennium moment will feature briej biographies of the most influential people of the millennium, as ranked by the book 1,000 Years, 1,000 People.) No. 71: The man known as the Sultan of the Ottomans, Suleiman the Magnificent (1494-1566), conquered Belgrade, expelled the Christian Knights of St.

John from Rhodes, annexed Hungary and built a naval power in the Mediterranean. He also launched campaigns against Persia and conquered Iraq. Consider this Hazing, The Sequel The Jocks. Last month, I wrote about Anderson resident Hank Nuwer, the author of a new book, Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing and Nelson Price Binge Drinking (Indiana University Press, I focused on Nuwer's conclusions about fraternity and sorority hazing, but I didn't have space to explore his observations on a related and equally significant topic. That topic, hazing among college sports teams, is the focus of a new and disturbing national study of athletes and coaches.

Nuwer, 53, served as an adviser for the study by New York's Alfred University, a pioneer in anti-hazing initiatives after some campus tragedies. More than 2,000 athletes in National Collegiate Athletic Association sports from water polo and volleyball to football, soccer, basketball and golf participated in the study. Twenty percent revealed they'd been involved in hazing that included criminal acts or "possibly dangerous" activity. "This is really significant," Nuwer says. The best estimates from Greek organizations, including some from the fraternities and sororities based in Indianapolis, are that 15 percent of Greeks have been involved in major hazing incidents.

"To have 20 percent of players on college sports teams whom nobody really has paid attention to in terms of hazing say they have been involved. Well, it should alarm all of us." Binge drinking Most serious hazing incidents among NCAA athletes, including players on women's sports teams, involved alcohol abuse. Examples include "drinking contests" in which rookies were pitted against senior team members or "frantic, station-to-station drinking" in which rookies were ordered to consume, say, 21 shots of alcohol in 21 minutes. So what's the big deal about a night or two of underage binge drinking? "The health risks are tremendous," Nuwer says. "I can tell you about so many tragedies where people have said later, 'He seemed fine.

He'd been standing up with the rest of They haven't understood the amount of time from (being able to) stand straight to collapsing in a coma can be almost instantaneous." Athletes who reported the highest rates of hazing were those in water polo, football, wrestling and swimming. At the other end was golf, where hazing, in Nuwer's words, "seems so minimal as to be non-existent." But there's encouraging news in the study for more than Just golfers. Many athletes at least seemed alert to hazing, in contrast to previous generations. As a student at Buffalo State University in the 1960s, Nuwer was manager of the soccer team. "Foreign players on the team were hazed for not playing what we considered aggressive, American-style soccer," he recalls.

Teammates put painful ointments on their jockstraps. "But if you would have asked me 25 years ago if that was hazing, I would have said 'No, that's Just punishment or Unfortunately, NCAA coaches contacted in the Alfred University study often responded in ways that reflected such archaic attitudes. Or they responded with denial and hostility. The study quotes coaches' responses such as, "Hazing occurs in Greek organizations, not here," and "Why are you wasting our time with this?" Nelson Price is a feature writer for 77ie Indianapolis Star and The Indianapolis News. Contact him at or call (317)-624-4636 and enter category 7181.

LA Dogs can put in a day's work The second annual Take Your Dog to Work Day will be June 23. Interested employers or pet owners may obtain a packet of instructional guidelines for the event by writing: Pet Sitters International, 418 E. King King, N.C. 27201-9163. Or visit the group's Web site at: www.petsit.com More tales: Read about other people's experiences with bringing their pets to work.

Page 2. though he's been caught plenty of times, no one's threatening to fire him. He's hard to criticize when, during his few waking moments, he crouches on the floor and rubs his furry little body against your legs. It's just Spooky, the friendly workplace cat, fulfilling the official job title listed next to his handsome photo in the company's computerized employee directory, "It's the perfect job for him," said software developer Sherry Mason, who rescued the abandoned black Manx cat from her son's school yard two years ago. "Whenever we need a break, we play with Spooky for a while and encourage him to bat around one of his little fuzzy toy mice," Mason said.

"Then we're ready to go back to work. He usually goes back to sleep." Helps with recruiting At businesses in Indiana and across the country, employers slowly are learning the benefits of letting pets have their day at work. California-based Netscape Communications Corp. says its four-year-old "dogs at work" program has been cited by several employees as their reason for joining the company. At lams a pet-food maker in Dayton, Ohio, workers often bring in their cats or dogs, for the day when the pets have to make a visit to the veterinarian's office.

See PETS Page 2 WORK RELIEF: Bailey, nestled in an office corner, goes to work every day with owner Larry Taylor. PERSONALITY Scott shunned trappings of Hollywood scene Gruff actor, who died Wednesday, preferred freshness of the stage to the movie business. 1 Ml nqrthwest of Los Angeles, wasn't infatuated with his movie career, say-irig that he did it for the money. He even shunned his Academy Award nominations. "I have to work in the theater to stay sane," he said.

"You can attack the stage fresh every night." His film debut came in 1959, as a charismatic loony who stirs up a lynch mob against Gary Cooper in T7ie Hangmg Tree. The same year, Anatomy of a Murder brought his first Academy Award nomination. He said nothing about it. When he was nominated again in 1962 for The Hustler, he wired the 1 J. Associated Press File Photo i A' By Cynthia L.

Webb ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES -He was best known for his movie roles, ranging from the fatuous blowhard Gen. Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's 1964 classic Dr. Strangelove to the dangerously explosive, yet sympathetic Gen. George S. Patton in 1970's Patton.

But George C. Scott, 71, who died Wednesday at his home 40 miles i STAR POWER: George C. Scott (pictured in 1996) left journalism school in 1950 for a career in acting. See SCOTT Page 2.

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