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Isaac William Rand

Isaac William Rand, a freshman from Smithfield, died at the University of North Carolina on September 13, 1912, when he fell from a barrel during a sophomore hazing and cut his jugular vein on a broken bottle. Four sophomores were dismissed, and three were convicted of manslaughter after their arrest by Orange County officials.

Source: UNC Libraries, North Carolina Miscellany: Isaac William Rand Hazing Incident

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StorylineHazing at the University and the death of Isaac Rand, 1906–19131906–1913 · 8 events · The death of freshman Isaac William Rand in a sophomore hazing in September 1912 led to criminal trials and a state law against hazing. In 1906 a freshman set upon by three sophomores had shot one of them, and in March 1912 sophomores threw rocks at a freshman room and fired a shot into it. Near midnight on September 13 sophomores took Rand and stood him on a barrel; he fell onto broken glass and died. Four students were arrested for manslaughter, and the faculty dismissed four more and suspended twelve. The 1913 legislature made hazing a crime. That March a jury found three defendants guilty, and their families paid the fees and took them home the same day.

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  1. Freshman Isaac William Rand dies in a hazing incident on the athletic field Taken from his Old East room near midnight by sophomores, the Smithfield freshman was made to stand on a barrel behind Bynum Gymnasium, fell onto broken glass that cut his carotid artery, and died within minutes on the gymnasium steps. Four students were arrested for manslaughter that day after a coroner's inquest, and Governor W. W. Kitchin demanded a full public investigation. People: William W. (William Walton) Kitchin, Francis Preston Venable, Isaac William Rand Place: Athletic field behind Bynum Gymnasium, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 6
  2. President Venable reports Isaac Rand's death to the trustees' executive committee Meeting in special session in Governor Kitchin's office on the afternoon of Monday, September 16, 1912, the executive committee of the University's trustees heard President F. P. Venable's report on the hazing death of freshman Isaac William Rand, drawn largely from the account of Rand's roommate, who had been hazed with him. The committee adopted resolutions of sympathy for Rand's family, recalled the trustees' rule that students convicted of hazing be expelled, and noted that the four students involved had been bound over to the Orange County Superior Court on a homicide charge. People: Francis Preston Venable, Isaac William Rand, William W. (William Walton) Kitchin Place: Governor's office, RaleighThe News (Chapel Hill), September 19, 1912, p. 1
  3. Three students are convicted in Hillsborough in Isaac William Rand's death At the Orange County Courthouse one of the four defendants was freed after the first testimony, and a jury of Orange County farmers found the other three guilty within a few hours. The judge gave the minimum four months with the option of hiring them out, and their families paid the fees and took them home the same day. People: John W. Graham, Isaac William Rand, Victor Silas Bryant Place: Orange County Courthouse, HillsboroughSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 11

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Cotten, Jerry W. · 1912

Letters, photocopied newspaper articles and photographs about the hazing death of Isaac William Rand, 1892 to 1912, a student at the University of North Carolina. Jerry W. Cotten compiled the materials in 1988 around the events of 1912. Topics include hazing at Chapel Hill and student life at the university. In the North Carolina Collection at UNC.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Rand, Isaac William, 1892-1912.

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