College Hazing In College

Now let's discuss some of the disadvantages. Consider your hectic schedule, and then consider another hectic schedule on top of it. While meetings and some events, like charity and recruitment, might be mandatory, others are optional. Though, chances are, you’ll want to attend the fun, frequent social events. Let’s get into the fun stuff, housing. While not all houses are the same, many have a lot of rules and requirements in order to live there, like specific study hours or attendance policies. If you’re more of a free spirit, this may not be your thing. Do you work? Well, you might have to. Fraternities and sororities require membership fees. For example, the initiation dues of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity are about $265 in addition to the

The other portion of rape culture that is especially dominant in fraternities and athletes is the role of secrecy. These social groups are so tightly knit that they learn from each other and support each other no matter what. The loyalty of peer support from the members comes hand in hand with brotherhood and a team. They have a group secrecy that forbids revealing the unexpected behavior of others in order to protect members within the group, as well as the group’s reputation. As Hummer (1989) notes, “brotherhood norms require sticking together regardless of right or wrong”. This secrecy allows fraternity brothers and athletes to justify and endorse rape, because they have the support from their closest friends. These “members are admonished to avoid getting the fraternity in trouble” (Hummer, 1989), shows how this “brotherhood” built in a fraternity does everything in their power to be safeguarded from negative criticism. Not only will these men keep each other’s secrets, but they also commend and encourage these actions. Said by a fraternity pledge whom had previously dropped from the fraternity, “Those guys are sick. They like seeing you suffer” (Hummer,1989), shows how these men in fraternities treat these woman, and even their own

The memoir “The College Hazing That Changed My Life” written by Thomas Rogers, is about a freshman in college who experience hazing in a rowing team until they received an eye-opening revelation. Hazing is a major problem throughout the world, a tradition that embarrasses or shame a group of fresh participant to a particular group. A tradition that can be “traced back to the Europe in the Middle Ages where it was known as pennalism” (History – StopHazing). In the first paragraph, it states an important fact about the author that is a repetitious word throughout the memoir, it states that he is a homoerotic male during the time of the hazing. The memoir describes how spiteful and futile hazing is, and it’s often only used to target freshman with superiority.

Students involved in clubs, fraternities, sororities, and organizations experience hazing. In fact, 55% those college students involved in clubs, teams and organizations experience hazing. Hazing is any action taken or any situation created intentionally that causes embarrassment, harassment or ridicule and risk emotional, or physical harm to members of a group or team, whether new or not, regardless of the person’s willingness to participate. Hazing can occur in high school, intercollegiate, or even professionally. As an individual, you have to know what is hazing. What is going over the edge? Am I doing anything illegal? Or is this causing emotional or physical distress or stress to myself or to others? Hazing, even though its tradition,

Hazing is a very serious issue throughout America. Hazing, by definition, is any action or

To some fraternity and sorority chapters hazing may be a way of group bonding and teaching respect, it is not indispensable. Hazing has been going on for quite amount of time, and banning organization who haze will make other chapters want to inflict pain and humiliation to their own pledges. Not only does is lead to a physical and mental breakdown path, but it also weakens the students and strips them of their power. Studies have shown that there are in fact fraternity and sorority chapters who believe that hazing is unnecessary, degrading and view it as juvenile, do not haze their members and perform true Greek rituals. Those chapters reported to become popular on campuses and did not see a loss in member loyalty and respect (Lowery). Fraternity

Summary: Matthew Haag’s New York Times article, “10 Additional Penn State Students Charged in Hazing Death of Pledge” begins with the discovery that members of the fraternity Beta Theta Pi deleted footage of the incident. This sudden realization by the F.B.I. led to the accusation of 10 additional suspects within the fraternity. The deleted footage revealed Mr. Piazza was “given at least 18 alcoholic drinks over 82 minutes at the Feb. 2 fraternity party.” The new video later showed him repeatedly falling down the stairs ultimately cracking his skull and busting his spleen from the continuous falls. So far charges have been presented upon all twelve of the involved.

An Old Dominion University recently had problems with the Sigma Nu Frat house hanging signs outside their house with extremely inappropriate sexually suggestive and harassing signs to new freshman female students and their families. The college responds by suspending the Frat house students. The stakeholders are the university, frat students, new students, their families, and the community around them. The university has duties to their students and their families to provide a safe place to learn and a duty to themselves to bring in more students and get more money. They have the right to educate their students and show a bit of virtue and utilitarianism when the suspend the frat house, providing mortal excellence while providing what is

As prevalent as hazing is among male college athletes, many people are surprised by the statistics surroundings this controversial topic. For instance in 1989-1999, of a survey of over 350,000 athletes, 250,000 plus said they had experienced hazing of some sort during their time with their associated team. One in five of these students experienced potentially illegal hazing including binge drinking, sexual acts, and destruction and vandalizing of property. Half of these men were involved in drinking contests or other alcohol related incidents, and only one in five experienced positive initiation practices such as team trips or team building exercises. When the geography of college campuses was evaluated, it was found that western and eastern schools participated heavily in alcohol related initiations, whereas southern and Midwestern campuses had a larger prevalence of dangerous or potentially illegal rituals (not to say binge drinking isn’t dangerous). Clearly hazing amongst athletics is not just isolated incidents of serious outcomes that happen to make the news due to their outrageous natures, but is a rampant practice that affects over half of every male athlete in college.

Hazing in universities across the nation has become an increasingly dangerous ritual that is seemingly becoming more difficult to put an end to due to its development into an "underground" activity. Though a regular activity in the seventies, hazing, a possible dangerous act of initiation to a group, has now become an activity that is banned in thirty-nine states (Wagner 16). However, this ritual has not been stopped or become less severe. In fact it is becoming more dangerous. Since it has been banned, with many colleges imposing their own penalties against those participating in it, many fraternities and sororities have pursued this activity in an underground fashion. Since these groups have gone underground, some victims of these

Hazing in universities across the nation has become an increasingly dangerous ritual that is seemingly becoming more difficult to put an end to due to its development into an “underground” activity. Though a regular activity in the seventies, hazing, a possible dangerous act of initiation to a group, has now become an activity that is banned in thirty-nine states (Wagner 16). However, this ritual has not been stopped or become less severe. In fact it is becoming more dangerous. Since it has been banned, with many colleges imposing their own penalties against those participating in it, many fraternities and sororities have pursued this activity in an underground fashion. Since these groups have gone underground, some victims of these

Brent had just begun college in a completely new state. He was unfamiliar with his new town and was not well acquainted with the alumni of his new school. He hadn't always been very social or “easy going” so he felt that college was his time to expand his horizons. During rush week he took the opportunity to pledge to a fraternity. Delta Zeta Pi promised brotherhood, a nice place to live, and many social opportunities. At first, everything seemed fine, then, when he least expected it the fraternity took a turn for the worst. All of a sudden he wasn't amongst “brothers” he was amongst people who wanted him to show his “devotion” to his fraternity through pain and embarrassment. When he signed up for Delta Zeta Pi he had no idea that he was signing away his pride, his ability to think for himself and his life. He did what he was told and took the punishment when he didn't. Whether it was drinking excessive amounts of alcohol or having boiling water poured onto his skin, he did it. Brent did what he was told and told no one about it, fearing he might be shunned by his “brothers” or that he might receive something even worse as a punishment. If he had decided to report the violence he could have potentially saved his life, instead he chose to protect his “brothers” who did not share his protective instincts when they left him for dead in an alley after he blacked out from alcohol poisoning due to forced excessive drinking never to wake up again. Brent, like many other people,

Furthermore, fraternities are infamous for their requirement to pledge in order to join the brotherhood. Although the specific acts inflicted on pledges is known only by members of fraternity, it is commonly known that hazing is part of the initiation. The pledges have to complete a series of humiliating and sometime dangerous rituals in order to join. They could be forced to consume excessive amount of alcohols and drugs, or be physically beaten or be publicly humiliated. Little known fact, white fraternities generally use alcohol for hazing while black fraternities result to physical violence. In a survey conducted by Dr. Susan Lipkins “31% of Fraternity and sorority members agree that a significant element in an initiation rite is humiliation.” “Also, many of the Greek Leaders agree that

Hazing can take place anywhere whether it be high school, college, sports, or fraternities. Other terms used for hazing are “hell week”, “help week”, and “initiation”. When one is trying to determine whether or not the situation is considered hazing there are many signs he/she could look for. Some examples include the following questions: is alcohol involved?, are there any risk of emotional or physical abuse?, and is there a risk of injury? (University of North Carolina Wilmington). If the answer to any of these is yes, then it would be considered some form of hazing. A study taking place at Alfred University shows that 1.5 million high school students have experienced some form of hazing. Forty-eight percent of students who belong to groups have reported to experiencing hazing behavior. These incidents can range anywhere between alcohol abuse to forcing one to commit a crime. Victims of hazing may hide the truth, whether they be embarrassed or they risk the chance of getting in a lot of trouble. While you may not notice it at first there are always signs to look for when searching for hazing activity. Some signs include excessive fatigue, wearing odd clothing, isolating themselves, skipping or missing class, and feeling depressed. Many parents are not aware of their child experiencing hazing activity. Although, now many of victims have decided to speak out about there encounters.

Hazing is defined as the practice of rituals, challenges, and other activities involving harassment, abuse, or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group. There are many different social settings that hazing has been used. This includes gangs, sports teams, schools, fraternities, sororities, and even the military. It is very popular in these social groups because it is used as a way making newcomers earn their right to be part of the group. Sometimes it is used as a team building/bonding method and in other ways it used to display power over the newcomers. Usually hazing is done all in good fun with simple pranks and activities, but in many cases it can lead to more serious abuse. In more serious cases (usually with fraternities), hazing has lead to the victim being hospitalized or even killed. Fraternity hazing is undoubtedly where more of the serious hazing occurs because it is basically a part of the “tradition” of the fraternity. In a lot of cases, forced alcohol consumption and/or physical abuse is part of the hazing, which is why many victims are hospitalized or killed.