what are your opinions on hazing?
964153
it's stupid. people have died from hazing.
190501
Hell yeah we're out here! Now, granted, we're few and far between. But I find that since we actually had to study during college (rather then join a frat or sorority and drink EVERY night like those darn Business kids) we're more apt to drink/party/rock now. My husband and I race powerboats on the weekends, and I used to play soccer with my local ASCE Chapter before I hurt my knee again. That doesn't mean I don't like to go home and "unwind" with a good Sudoku.
1022801
This is a tough one.  I'm English and very proud of it.  I don't like the idea of hooligans though.  However if someone starts giving me grief, there is no way I will back down.  I guess this is the same for a group of lads who are supporting football.  If you look back in the history of English football there has always been hooligans.  However I believe that the action should be kept on the pitch.  Look at rugby fans, the game is violent and the fans get on great with each other.
101280
It's largely tradition and it happens at just about every level of every sport and has nothing to do with big money, because it's been going on long before such things as signing bonuses of any size even existed.\n\nPart of the process is because being involved in sports is being part of a select club and there are certain things you have to go through to be accepted into the club ... just like joining a college fraternity or sorority. It's not about earning respect for the older players or even putting the younger players in their place, but about being part of the team and going through a common experience (as hazing rituals often stay the same on teams for many years) so that you can say you have been accepted and made part of this "club".
529297
Because they aren't a part of it and they believe that hazing only occurs in fraternities and greek houses are just a place for partying, etc.\n\nSadly the sports teams on my campus party for than fraternity men, are more exclusive(only team members and girls allowed into parties), and the haze more(Seen and heard rumors)... \n\nPeople usualy hate what they don't know about and the secrets that each greek house keeps between the members pisses the non-members out cause they don't know. Psychologically they wish they knew but sadly either didn't try to rush a house or was turned off by the media...\n\nI too hate the image I have on my campus thanks to Animal House and Old School, but I know that my gpa is higher than most of the campus and I am way more involved.
1083264
As a member of a predominately Greek Letter Sorority I haven't heard anything or read anything to this effect. I do know that hazing provokes lawsuits and increases liability for all the Divine Nine organizations.
515559
Most people don't, but I had to wear a uniform up through 8th grade, and follow a fairly strict dress code up through high school.  I don't now in college, and I'm glad for that, but I think it was really useful when I was younger.  My schools were comparatively small, and the cliques weren't fun.  It was good not to have to worry what other people would think about the clothes I wore.  Though I don't know if I would have said so at the time, I think it might also have kept us just a little more focused on the academics.
699806
You are too funny, but I completely agree with you.  I think people in this world should try minding their own business and celebrate whatever the hell they want to.  I do find that people take more pleasure out of minding everyone elses business instead of their own.
244633
I am a current member in a fraternity at my college. I never thought I was "buying" friends! If anything I was brought closer to my current friends. My college does not allow freshman to join a fraternity and this is a great way to allow you to express yourself at college freshman year. As a freshman at my college I got very involved with many different clubs.\n\nI join to meet new people and make new friends. Before the fraternity I was involved with 3 major clubs on my college campus and one I help start from scratch, so my reason was that i didn't have any friends, I wanted more. Also the opprotunities of brotherhood and business connections. I would be lying if the social scene didn't cross my mind as well. Academics were a big part alot of my borthers are economic majors like myself and I can ask them for help when ever. Finally I love the community service, I am my fraternities community service chair.\n\nI don't see myself not being in a fraternity currently. My borthers were my best friends before pledging and are even stonger now. I didn't see any hazing, my fraternity has strict rules against it. As for "black-balling"(not giving a potential rushee a bid) I have yet to see that take place my fraternity only rushes in the fall, when I rushed! There is some talks of people black balling some in the fall with the upcoming rush. I know the kids that people don't like and for the most part they aren't like the rest of our brothers(womanizers, drug problems, etc.) When thinking about a possible brother you need to think of the worst and what could happen if a problem like that was brought into the house. My brothers do not want our house to go on probation due to someone doing something stupid.\n\nI picked this house simply cause the great community serivice I heard of. Also I met some of the brothers my freshman year. Also my friends from freshman year all liked this fraternity so that is why we decided to rush this one.
602660
Yes technically you can. Just be prepared for a lot of hazing and unfair oppurtnities .
842992
I can spout the party line about hazing being wrong, blah blah blah. The stuff that you hear about (jump wings pounded onto the chest with no backs on the pins, being raped with foreign objects, etc. etc.) is sick and sadistic. \n\nYes, while I was at Parris Island, there was a blanket party. No, it was not encouraged by the drill instructors, as far as I am aware, they had no knowledge of it, on the other hand, they know everything that goes on in their platoon. Afterwards, only the Senior Drill instructor was upset about it, because it happened to 'his boy' (very long story, but we were told at the beginning that this individual would be the honor recruit because of who his father was, and he was given a lot more chances than everyone else because of this fact). It was one of our last nights there, and it was retribution for being 'daddy's boy'. I did not participate, more from a lack of oppurtunity than anything else. I was on firewatch around zero dark thirty, and was taking out the trash. Had I been there, I probably would have taken part, because I was thoroughly pissed with him as well. \n\nBut for every one of these that you hear about, how many 'hazings' and initiations do you not hear about because nothing happened? The Marine that earned his jump wings and was "pinned" (the beating of his wings with no backs on the points, suffered a punctured lung and basically drowned overnight), well, when I was promoted to Sergeant, I was pinned as well. In the tradition and spirit in which it was meant to be done. My executive officer and my wife stepped forward, pulled the corporal stripes off my collar points, put the Sergeant stripes on. The XO stepped back, shook my hand with one, and patted me on the collar with the other....firmly. No blood was drawn, but it stung a little. \n\nHazing (in the very malicious sense of the word) is not as wide spread as everyone would like to believe. Initiations like pinning are supposed to be a right of passage upon accomplishing something, but there are always those who take it too far. \n\nAt times, however, there are those leaders that cannot or will not do what is necessary for good order and discipline, and while I do not condone extreme violence, sometimes a good ass kicking is what is needed.\n\nAfter all the work my Senior did for the honor recruit, he got locked up for cocaine use one week before he was supposed to ship out for Officer Candidate School.
1187701
We are doing about that in sociology at the moment! \n\nWe are doing about how youth in increasingly subject to preventative targeting and restriction from public space, and we have already tried the classical music treatment in England and it has worked really well!!  Im not sure when exactly but it was about 2 yrs ago that I heard about it being played in train stations at night.\n\nI think it pretty much does work....who wants to listen to Stravinsky at their favourite hang out place? Who would want to listen to Public Enemy over a romantic meal? I think the reasons it works are obvious.\n\nI think its a great Idea and although most of the people on my course say it was an outrage and the result of unfair stereotyping..........they seem to forget that young ppl can feel intimidated by other young ppl and are the  main victms of youth crime. So the interests its protecting arent some great opressive "force" hovering above about the descend at any minute to encapture us all, as some ppl seem to annoyingly and stupidly believe. I think I am the only one being honest in  our seminars sometimes, the rest just follow whatever view is fashionable and non offensive to hold. It does my head in as you are probably seeing right now!!\n\nWhen has it been the right to intimidate people and cause trouble? Its addressing a real and exisiting problem and it frustrates me that no one wants to say it.
823875
I used to be in a fraternity as well (and it was also not the typical). I don't tell anyone about it now. It's not as important in the real world as most greeks would have you believe.
672350
Caning, paddling, physical abuse is not OK.\n\nI don't care that it's a "tradition". It serves no real purpose.
721272
As long as it isn't physical and doesn't degrade the person being ragged, it is a good way of breaking the ice. But since not all students know their limits, ragging should be banned and punished.
1014132
If you are going to burn the flag then I have a suggestion. You will find it a lot more fun if you do it just outside of a biker bar and burn it. See the reaction of the crowd.
386810
Adore your questions!\nActually the rite consists of dressing in drag (wearing the gang colors only...!)and entering rival gang territory during the midnight hour. If the novice gang member survives\nthe entire evening of sadistic, hedonistic, and homosexual\nrival gang member escapades, then he is considered "tough"\nenough to become a true gang member. His pair of High Heels\nwill be displayed and eventually enshrined with other initiates who have survived this most savage of doctrines.\nAlso, a life-time supply of Depends undergarments will be\nguaranteed to those who sucessfully complete the hazing.