Hazing : The Act Of Hazing In The United States

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 cause of so many untimely deaths and injuries, it raises the question; should hazing be

In her article, “The Dark Power of Fraternities,” Flanagan argues that,“The also have a long, dark history of violence against their own members and visitors to their houses, which makes them in many respects at odds with the core mission of college itself.” In other words, there may be a lot of positives to fraternities; however, there are also some very serious issues that need to be dealt with and acknowledged. Because fraternities tend to get off with little punishment, it shows that the behavior is okay. Therefore, the number of injuries/deaths, assault, and rape continue to grow. For instance, a 19 year old sophomore, Amanda Andaverde, spent her first and only month at the University of Idaho. A member of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority, she spent a weekday with her sisters at Sigma Chi. Getting bored of continuous “drinking games” and forced flirting with an “assigned date,” Amanda left to go to another fraternity, Sigma Alpha. This is where she would fall three stories off a “sleeping porch,” and suffer traumatic brain injury. Sleeping porches are referred to as “rack rooms”. These rooms are usually found on the top floor with huge windows that stay open around the clock (Flanagan 6). Andaverde’s family filed a lawsuit against the University of Idaho, SAE, and Tri Delta. In the end, the court dismissed the case due to a “summary judgement because there was no dispute that Andaverde fell out of an open window,” and they found no proof of threatening circumstances in her presence (Flanagan 6). In other words, the court dismissed the case before it even reached a full trial, concluding that Andaverde was aware of the open window and that the university or fraternity did not have the responsibility to protect her from her own behavior. Basically, the court claimed she initiated her own accident. How can a university or fraternity blame a victim of permanent brain damage for their accident? Especially when the

Sexual assault often derives when frat members are under the influence of drugs or alcohol as seen at many colleges and universities. At University of Virginia sexual assault has been all over the headlines on magazines. The Department of Justice released a study that "Rape and Sexual Assault Victimization Among College-Age Females, 1995-2013," shows that not only are female college students less likely to experience sexual assault than non-college women 18 to 24, but the rate at which they are sexually assaulted is nowhere near the "one in five" or "one in four" statistics brandished by advocates” (Young 1). Thus illustrating the sexual assault is not very common for fraternities to commit the crime of sexual assault to women. Therefore fraternities do not promote misogyny as example shows.

Hazing is usually about supremacy and dominance, this is to make those in charge postulate that they are formidable. Though a small amount may not be included majority of college delta clubs are guilty of the act of hazing. In order to be in a certain organization, people might be asked to perform dangerous ceremonies. According to the author Ally Hirschlag, a former pledge Britteny Starling, was forced to pretend as if she was a human trash can and mop. She would clean juice from the ground and accumulate the waste from other sister’s using only her fingers and pouches. They weren’t finished with her yet, she had to stay awake all night without permission for the bathroom, to make things worse she had to stand all night. When Brittney’s leg couldn’t handle it anymore one of the so called sisters smashed her ankle causing injury. Due to this she sued, which shut down Zeta Phi Beta sorority located at the University of California. This event shows that these so called sisters just want to feel in control, the tasks set for the pledges is a test of courage WRONG, It’s for the pleasure of someone else’s satisfaction. Hazing is ABUSE; it lowers one’s standards and makes them a slave towards their so called “brothers/sisters”. Her not being able to use the bathroom, while standing up is cruel. The fact that one of her sisters hit her on the ankle when she couldn’t take it anymore was evil. An associate (sister) is meant to help the pledges guide them and show them the

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

Nolan Burch, a young man local to the area, died last year of alcohol poisoning. He was pledging the Kappa Sigma Fraternity at West Virginia University, and was forced to consume a bottle of alcohol as part of his pledge process. There are over nine million Greek members nationally and more than half college students are involved in some form of campus hazing (Daley). Hazing is an important part of a pledge process that is based on tradition. Every member of the fraternity or sorority has gone through the exact same pledge process and it is a necessary rite of passage that creates bonds within a group. It is also meant to discipline the new members and maintain a hierarchy. Since hazing is only on the news when someone gets hurt or dies,

Hazing has been around for a while and it seems as if it won’t go away anytime soon. Hazing is defined as “any assumption of authority by a student whereby another student suffers or is exposed to any cruelty, intimidation, humiliation, embarrassment, hardship or oppression or is required to perform exercises to excess, to become sleep deprived, to commit dangerous activities, to curry favor from those in power, to submit to physical assaults, to consume offensive foods or alcohol, the threat of bodily harm or death, or the deprivation or abridgement of any right”(Schneider,2009,p194). Hazing is usually a ritual that sororities & fraternities and sports teams have in place to initiate newcomers. The “Hazing Prohibition Act of 2003” was put in place to prevent harsh hazing antics that was created as a way to see who would be the weakest link and be cut from the team. While some healthy competitions are welcomed, going beyond the line where someone feels uncomfortable is a step too far.

In February of this year, a 19-year-old brother at the fraternity’s Cornell University chapter died following a ritual in which he was kidnapped by several pledges and given alcohol each time he incorrectly answered a question about the fraternity. During this process, he was blindfolded and his hands and feet were tied. His blood-alcohol level was four-times the legal driving limit in New York. In the article “Safe and Sound” there was another incident ‘Florida A&M University (FAMU), which was under fire a few years ago for an incident in which a member of the school’s marching band was killed during hazing.’ Also in the other article ‘High School, Where Hazing is Amazing’ it says that 10 students had felony charges for hazing freshman on the basketball and baseball teams. Hazing is a huge problem it is basically strenuous, humiliating, task of a program/group of beyond hard physical training and initiation. This problem needs to be solved because there has been many of deaths and sever injuries from this type of ‘activity’ being performed. In the “Prevent deaths, lawsuits by tackling Greek hazing issues” they said “Inform your behavioral

Sexual assault on college campuses is a subject that comes up commonly in media today, usually due to the fact that these assaults happen on a regular basis. About one in four women and one in seven men are victims of some form of sexual violence during their college experience (Abooali). In most occurances when speaking about sexual assault on campus, people are talking about what the main cause of these cases of sexual assault could be, and if there is any way to prevent it from happening. There are many factors that play into these sexual assaults such as alcohol consumption, peer pressure, society's normalization of these assaults, and party culture.

The alleged facts that gave rise to the plaintiff’s case was that during the University of Virginia’s (UVA) Men Swim team introduction or ‘welcome week’, the plaintiff along with other freshmen UVA swimmers were subjected to hazing that included acts such as, physical and mental abuse, force of obsessive alcoholic beverage intake, false imprisonment, and threats of sodomy against the freshmen swimmers. According to the plaintiff, if the underclassmen did not comply with any of the requests or duties that the upperclassmen told the underclassmen swimmers to complete, they were forced into dangerous and life threatening acts. However, when the head coach was informed about the heinous acts being performed by the upperclassmen, the coach simply informed the plaintiff that he could practice separately from the team. Unfortunately, the coach informed the plaintiff practicing during a different time from the rest of the team would not guarantee protection from any future attacks. These acts against the plaintiff from the upperclassmen of swimmers on

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

Is Hazing something that’s important to you ? What about Black Greek Letter Associations ? Hazing is the imposition of strenuous, often humiliating, tasks as part of a program of rigorous physical training and initiation. Hazing is illegal if you didnt know. According to Lawyers.com- In many

The article that I have selected is about hazing and how it is heavily associated with greek fraternity and sororitys across the U.S. Hazing is the act of ‘‘any activity expected of someone that joins a group and has the potential to humiliates, degrades, abuses, comprise safety, or inflicts pain until its victims’’(Richardson, Wang, &Hill, 2012). Hazing as a form of initation into these fratertinities and sorriorites and the behavior is highly anticpitate and welcomed as for many it is look at as a form of handed down tradition. Which brings us to the theory of reasoned action and it having much to do with an individuals positive or negative feelings about performing a behavior. Many have taken on the mindset that if you are not

One person that decided to share his story is a student of the University of Connecticut named Colin. He had a personal experience with hazing when his fraternity-brothers decided to send him and another pledge flying through a car: