Essay on Hazing in the Marine Corps

A common myth is that hazing is a “reality” in Frats and sororities. We've all seen it in movies and we've all heard stories from our friends. Hazing can be defined as people or individuals who are forced to do something that is psychologically, physically, or emotionally harmful or damaging (Merriam Webster). Greek organizations all over the world have taken steps in developing human rights policies and strict “anti-hazing” policies to get rid of hazing in all forms from all campuses and fraternities. In the 1980s the movie “Animal House”, became a hit. The movie’s “mocking” of the wild side of fraternity life: binge drinking, hazing, sexual harassment, wild parties, drug use, and poor living conditions, became the American public’s view of Greek life. Many television movies and shows depict the ‘crazy side,’ of Greek life and choose to show its negative side. In doing so, many movies and shows do forget to showcase the beneficial side of joining a Sorority or fraternity and show its positive

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.

anti-hazing laws governing hazing, 44 out of the 50 (Wetsol). In some or most cases of hazing it

College; some look for the experience to open their minds in extending their educations; as others look at it as the first step towards adulthood and running away from home as fast as possible. Sororities and fraternities have been around for decades with America’s blind eye turned towards the injustices that encompass the stigma. Student hazing deaths are climbing and something has to change to prevent these actions. What will it take to change fraternity culture?

The Marine Corps has been protecting America’s freedom and acting as a symbol of strength since 1775. The United States Marine Corps is a force for greatness, bound to the words liberty and justice, sworn to protect every American soul. Marines have battled on land, in air, and at sea for their country and many brave men and women have lost their lives in the line of fire. These brave soldiers are lead by intelligent officers who are strong leaders, quick decision makers, and possess great mental toughness. The young men and women blessed with the privilege of being officers in the Marine Corps face many hardships on their journey to greatness, yet many travel down this road and benefit from the experience greatly.

Caitlin Flanagan uses her article to educate people about what hazing actually is. She speaks to former pledges and introduces us to what is known as the SHEP test. Flanagan also mentions how in many placing hazing has been banned but still continues in many fraternity houses across the United States. Despite many universities best effort, it is hard to stop hazing because many fraternities are off campus and the college has little control over them.

There are very few things in the modern military of today or any military that has ever existed before our current military for that matter, that are more important than the rank structure and the the respect that is demanded of you by that rank structure. Those are two very important characteristics of every successful military unit. With added details here and there, in this essay I will mainly be discussing what respect actually is, how being respected is normally earned and in the military how it is demanded of you as a sub-ordinate to any ranks higher than you or in some cases any fellow military personnel who is more senior to you and why. On top of that I will be covering

Hazing is essentially the way a greek organization educates its new members on their values and ideas, and is often conducted in secrecy in order to be able to continue the tradition. However, every greek member does not engage in hazing, only “thrity-six percent indicated that they had engaged in a behavior that would actually constitute as hazing” (Campo, Poulos and Sipple 143). Some of the behaviors that can be affiliated with hazing activities include: negative team building and initiating activites (e.g. carrying unnecessary items, required to remain silent, and verbal abuse), positive team building and initiating activities (e.g. community service, maintaining gpa, playing sports, and organizing fundraisers) and

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

The act of hazing may consist of something as subtle as a “pledge”, one who is trying to become a part of the group, having to answer phones at a fraternity house to extreme hazing such as being severely beat with paddles or even bricks. Since hazing takes many forms, it is hard for the public to realize that these “pledges” are actually being harmed. It is especially hard to see the mental abuse aspect of this situation. At times, “pledges” may be forced to wear humiliating items such as dog collars or diapers. It may look like an innocent prank, and may actually seem humorous, but stunts like this can deeply affect a person emotionally (Scleifer 42). Hazer’s in Greek societies have also been known to play the “buzz-saw” game in which a chainsaw is held inches away from a pledge until he/she screams in terror. This practice is used to instill respect, in the form of extreme fear, into the pledges (“The Persistent Madness of Greek Hazing” 14).

The Marine Corps are an interesting sector of the military, from a simple google search it was found to be viewed as the most prestigious and elite group of the U.S. military. Throughout this essay there will be an in-depth analysis on the specific advertisement I have chosen as well as answering some questions that have come up over the course of my research. These questions are: how does the Marine Corps distinguish themselves so much from other military strands? Also, how can the Marine Corps influence the population to join for

Hazing is defined as any action taken or any situation created intentionally that causes embarrassment, harassment, or ridicule and risks emotional and/or physical harm to members of a group or team. Many people have become a victim of this horrific act. While it may start as a fun tradition that is performed in different groups, it can become very tragic. Hazing takes place in high schools, sports, and fraternities which has led to an increase in media attention due to victims revealing personal accounts of hazing incidents.