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Two Penn students were convicted yesterday of simple assault and harassment for hazing a pledge at their fraternity. Both Kelechi Okenerke and Lionel Anderson-Perez were sentenced to nine months probation.

The pledge testified that he and three others were slapped across their backs. He also said he later had a rubber band snapped so hard against his wrist is scarred.

Okenerke testified in his own defense, and said he was merely trying to take a vested interest in his pledge’s slipping grades:

Okenerke testified that he was not present for the October 2005 hazing. The rubber-band episode occurred earlier, in his room in the fraternity house, when he was chastising his protege for letting his grades slip, he said.

“I had a vested interest in him,” Okenerke testified. [...]

Okenerke, of Voorhees, N.J., is on academic probation but attending classes at the Ivy League school.

Academic probation? Maybe he needed to self-inflict some of those rubber band scars on himself.

Penn Students Convicted For Roles In Fraternity Hazing [NBC 10]