<p>I'm trying to write an article about Hazing trends all over the world. From where I come from, it's called 'ragging' and tends to get out of hand. As I start college next week, I will find out firsthand about this as where I'm headed there's going to be ragging throughout the entire week, as many facebooks events are screaming. I've heard though abroad hazing is mainly limited to greek letter societies (sororities and fraternities). Did you face hazing when you went to college? Do you think it is justified? Do you have stories of hazing gone bad?</p>
<p>Post it all here, so we can share our hazing opinions and experiences.</p>
<p>One of my good friends at Georgetown says that she was hazed during the first meeting with her club rugby team last year. She was forced to drink an inordinate amount of alcohol as part of the “recruitment process”.</p>
<p>That’s not hazing. That’s party of rugby culture, called a drink-up. You sing lots of great songs with your mates and drink a lot - usually with the other team too - to celebrate the battle. It’s great fun.</p>
<p>[song]
Jesus can’t play rugby because he’s got holes in his hands,
Jesus can’t play rugby because he’s got holes in his hands,
Jesus can’t play rugby because he’s got holes in his hands,
Jesus Saves! Jesus Saves! Jesus Saves!</p>
<p>Jesus can’t play rugby because his dad will fix the game, (or)
Jesus can’t play rugby because he’s got illegal headgear, (or)
Jesus can’t play rugby because he’s got the perfect stats, (or)
Jesus can’t play rugby because he’ll turn the other cheek, (or)
Jesus can’t play rugby because [whatever you can think of to avoid drinking]</p>
<p>TobaccoNchocolat, that does qulaify as hazing. I was reading about some student in sri lanka who had to consume excessive amounts of alcohol and who died of liver failure in the process.</p>
<p>Drinking at a party is only considered hazing when people die, much like catcalls are only considered sexual harassment when people complain.</p>
<p>Nobody forces these people to consume more alcohol than they can handle. They can always really walk away (but they don’t, because they’re dumbass social climbers) and nobody would really care. If they consumed that much alcohol to kill themselves, then they are idiots.</p>
<p>The fact is, it is a party. You can handle that environment, or it isn’t for you. It comes with the territory. Much like the great blues musicians of the 1950s and 1960s that never became famous because their group refused to play with them because they didn’t contribute to the collective drug expenses.</p>
<p>I’m on crew team and there isn’t any “hazing”. I mean we get called the crew babies, the crewbies or the newbies, and we’re oar **<strong><em>es but it’s really not anything I’d get *</em></strong>y about, it’s earning your way. If you want to go out and drink with them they welcome you, but you can go and not drink. My school is pretty all around anti-haze though.</p>
<p>Hazing is not limited to college. Where I worked (at an ambulance station as an EMT), a lot of the members 20-30 y/o would make the new members do a lot of embarrassing things. Some things included: being locked outside during winter while wearing shorts and a tee; having the members move your car into a retention pond as a joke, etc.</p>
<p>I’m not sure it qualifies as social climbing. More like, social acceptance. I’m not sure how it works there but here and in many other countries if you refuse to be hazed then your seniors will make sure you pay. Maybe throughout your entire college career. Thus, it does mean something; noone can say you can away and nobody will care.
Question: So hazing at colleges in the US is limited to clubs? The entire freshmen body does not get hazed in general?</p>
<p>Yeah, I would say that in general, hazing at colleges in the US is limited to clubs and fraternities/sororities. I haven’t had any hazing experiences.</p>
<p>It probably varies by school, though - due to the school’s culture and its size. For example, my school is too big to haze all the freshmen, but maybe at smaller schools, the classes are small enough that freshmen could be hazed. I really don’t know; I’m just guessing.</p>
<p>Not much hazing around here. A little for Greek, but usually nothing major. Of the few people I knew that rushed, there was only one who said she did anything out of the ordinary for rush. </p>
<p>My work sort of does a type of hazing. My boss will give you the hardest shoot of the year to work at when you get a new position. She calls it “baptism by fire”, we call it “survival 101”. Lol.</p>