Hazing

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Hazing

• Grows Younger and More Violent
• By Kristy Vivian

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Recent Hazing cases

• Teasing has gone to tormenthaving fun has gone
  to extremes!
• Teenage girls having feces dumped on them.
• Football players sodomized teammates at training
  camp. (Mepham High School)
• Homecoming rally, hazing fighting traditions
  turned violent.
• Freshman beatdowns, homecoming hazing and
  vicious pranks, and various other incidents and
  tormens as wellall of which will never result in
  anything positive

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Punishments For Hazing

• Depending on actual incidents
• -You could be charged with assault and battery,
  disorderly conduct, penalty fines, higher
  authority notification, or other punishments
  depending on the causes and effect, although, all
  will be placed on your record.
• -Hazing can result in needs of medical attention
  or even in some cases deaths.
• Something has to break the cycle, Greene said.
  Maybe if they get the maximum sentence, people
  will think twice before doing it again, instead
  of just going along with what has been done
  before.

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Last Major Study on Hazing

• The last major study on hazing was conducted in
  2000 by Alfred University, which found more than
  1.5 million U.S. high school students-or 48 of
  students who were members of a social group-were
  subjected to hazing each year.
• Nearly all who were hazed were subjected to
  humiliation.

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What exactly is Hazing???

• Hazing is defined by the FIPG (Fraternity
  Insurance Purchasing Group) as
• - Any action taken or situation created,
  intentionally, whether on or off fraternity
  premises, to produce mental or physical
  discomfort, embarrassment, harassment, or
  ridicule.

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Subtle Hazing

• is actions that are against accepted soroity or
  fraternity standards of conduct, behavior of good
  tastes. An activity or attitude directed toward
  a pledge or member of a group, as an act of
  ridicule, humiliation, or embarrassment.
• Examples name calling, silence periods for
  pledges, any from of demerits, scavenger hunts
  for meaningless objects, phone or house duties,
  deprivation of privileges, scaring pledges or
  members of a group of what could happen, etc.

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Harassment Hazing

• is anything that causes mental anguish or
  physical discomfort to the pledge or member of a
  group. Any activity or activity directed toward
  a pledge or activity which confuses, frustrates,
  or causes undue stress.
• Examples verbal abuse, questioning under
  pressure, requiring certain members to perform
  ridiculous activities, stunt or skit nights,
  requirements to perform personal service to
  actives such as running errands and performing
  maid duties to others.

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Hazing affect any age

• Takes place in both mens and womens
  organizations and is common among student groups
  in middle/high schools-particularly athletic
  teams.
• Troubling at the middle/high school levels
  because of developmental stages occurring.
• Students are more vulnerable to peer pressure due
  to the tremendous need for belonging, making
  friends and finding approval in ones peep group.
• Example Sauciers son Chad died in 1993, while
  pledging a fraternity at Alburn University in
  Alabama, after being made to drink a fifth of
  alcoholwas dragged to the other room and never
  woke up

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Myths Facts about Hazing

• Myth Hazing is no more than foolish pranks that
  sometimes go away.
• FACT Hazing is an act of power and control over
  others--it is victimization. Hazing is
  pre-meditated and NOT accidental. Hazing is
  abusive, degrading and often life-threatening.

• Myth As long as theres no malicious intent, a
  little hazing should be okay.
• FACT Even if there is no malicious intent safety
  may still be a factor in traditional hazing
  activities that are considered to be all in good
  fun. Think about it, what purpose to such
  activies as hazing serve in promoting the growth
  and development of group team members?

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The Power of Caring

• Quote by Will Keim, Ph. D
• - 1. If you have to ask if it is hazing, it is.
  2. If in doubt, call your advisor/coach/national
  office. If you wont pick up the phone, you have
  answer. Dont B.S. yourself. 3. If you haze,
  you have low self-esteem. 4. If you allow hazing
  to occur, you are a hazing enabler. 5. Failure
  to stop hazing will result in death

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Hazing Awareness

• Colleges and Universities have instituted
  anti-hazing policies and educational awareness
  programs related to hazing, although few
  secondary schools have done the same.
• Hazing practices in middle/high schools are
  overlooked and dismissed as mere traditions,
  because the authority is unaware of hazing and
  how it operates.
• Saucier started C.H.A.D (Cease Hazing Activites
  and Deaths), which is a hazing-awareness group,
  that now travels the country speaking to schools,
  organizations and anoyone who will listen about
  the dangers of hazing.
• Hank Nuwer has a book called, High school
  hazing, which is one of the many books out there
  for everyone to understand hazing and what it
  contains.

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Cites stated

• www.foxnews.com
• www.stophazing.com
• http//office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx
• www.intheknowzone.com