Three paramedics at Newark’s University Hospital were fired this week after grainy images taken by a cellphone camera surfaced showing two student interns garbed in white sheets to look like robes of the Ku Klux Klan.

Officials at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, which operates the hospital, and its emergency medical services unit, called the episode “ugly and abhorrent,” and “not be tolerated at any level.”

University president William F. Owen, who disclosed details of the incident on Friday, said one of the paramedics offered to resign, but was terminated instead on Monday. Two others were subsequently fired on Thursday.

You don’t walk away from something like this,” he said, clearly angry…

Just kids having fun, right?




  1. eyeofthetiger says:

    On would think after working a couple few vehicle accidents or other type of violent crime calls hazing would seem rather bland and trivial. I say let them tazer themselves. It puts hair on ones nuts and build commoderie.

  2. Chris Mac says:

    so…. what’s the big deal?!? They got fired.

    This is all so confusing.

  3. bobbo says:

    They should go down and check the morgue==place is lousy with folks being KKK hazed.

    The article lacks specifics. Good for a knee jerk reaction, nothing more.

  4. moss says:

    Someone please take bobbo by the hand and show him how to click a link.

    Maybe, hazing is another one of the traditions that’s important to his emotional well-being. He has to feel superior to someone.

  5. GregAllen says:

    Are these the same type of white guys claim that blacks are a bunch of whiners because the slaves were freed a long time ago?

    (and they seem to honestly oblivious about current racism!)

  6. bobbo says:

    #4–Moss==so when I posted “The article lacks specifics.” did you mean to say there were additional links in the referenced thread above that provided specifics?

    In any case, what specifics do you spy that show the “hazing” was so outrageous as to warrant a firing without further warning or opportunity to correct one’s behavior?

    BTW–on its own, whats wrong with having sheets thrown over you==they look like Angels to me.

    “UMDNJ officials are still trying to piece together what led to the photos,”==why wait for facts when we all know what happened was just “something like this” whatever this is. We can’t have “this” breaking out all over the place.

  7. drben says:

    “FIRE” when ready Captain!

    “Firing” out of a torpedo tube not not have been enough punishment for these nimrods.

  8. Mr. Fusion says:

    OK, and this is wrong, … how?

    It might have been extremely tasteless, even very ugly. BUT, how is it wrong?

  9. MikeN says:

    Shouldn’t you guys be complaining about firing over a thought crime?

  10. lucidologist says:

    Just a reminder to all you parents out there, the Ghost costume is no longer acceptable.

  11. Rick Cain says:

    This is what the greek system does to people in college.


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