<p><a href="http://hazing.cornell.edu/pages/descriptions.shtml%5B/url%5D">http://hazing.cornell.edu/pages/descriptions.shtml</a>
(source collegehumour.com)</p>
<p>Those range from harmless:
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Members sent instant messages to new members at various times of day and night ordering them to run errands for them.
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<p>To funny:
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Members told new members to bring bathing suits and magic markers to an event and falsely told them that sisters would circle the body fat on new members.
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<p>To just wrong:
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Members pressured new members of the same sex to "make out" with each other.
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<p>there is body fat is all over the body, under the skin</p>
<p>Some of those examples seemed like good clean fun to me, for instance:</p>
<p>"Members were given condoms and falsely told that they would have to have sex with a farm animal."</p>
<p>" Members told new members that they would be branded as part of their initiation. After blindfolding the new members and placing them by a fire, members took branding irons immersed in ice water and pressed them against the new members' skin. Unable to distinguish cold from hot, new members thought they were being branded."</p>
<p>somewhat less clean/funny, but still decent...</p>
<p>" Members required new members to eat only peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for one week."</p>
<p>Personally I think the mental kind of hazing (ie: "grilling" someone under bright lights, etc...) can be a good thing at times, depending on how far it goes - I certainly don't think it deserves to be listed with getting kids drunk and having them jump into a freezing lake.</p>
<p>haha i read that back in the day. It's a nice attempt, but hazing was always kind of underground anyway...</p>
<p>yeah some things are actually messed up like drunk->freezing lake because they're actually really dangerous, but much of it seems amusing in the way that afterward you would laugh about it even though you'd be scared $4!+less during it.</p>
<p>the worst was the ice water/beer/garbage/urine bath... with the raw eggs gross</p>