<p>If this were a totally voluntary organization then I would have little to say or be concerned about, but this is a university sport and one should not have to submit to hazing of any sort, in one's underwear or fully dressed, to participate as a full team member. One does voluntarily agree to be yelled at by the coaches and pushed to physical limits, but one does not agree to suffering indignities imposed by team members. If one can refuse and still be a fully accepted team member, then that may be a different matter.</p>
<p>"I don't have a kid in college yet. But I don't think that kind of behavior is just harmless fun, "kids will be kids" stuff, so I still would be horrified if I found pictures on the internet of my own kid involved in such activity.""</p>
<p>Am I the only parent who went to college in the early 70s when things allegedly were wild, but never did anything like what was in those pictures?</p>
<p>I was no prude when I was in college, and I'm not one now. However, I wouldn't want to participate in any activity in which those kind of antics were my peers' idea of fun, and I wouldn't want my kids doing anything like that either.</p>
<p>What's up with this generation? Why can't they be students like we were -- marching for peace and taking over buildings in support of various political issues?</p>
<p>Another reminder that females aren't really any better than males.</p>
<p>I was being slightly tongue in cheek when I said I was a prude, LOL...although on things like this, I guess I am.</p>
<p>I went to college in the 70's too, to NU no less, and can't remember anything at all even remotely resembling this type of bad behavior. I remember toking parties, yes, and some drinking parties with the frats Freshman year, but this was no one's idea of fun. </p>
<p>Glad I'm not the only one who finds this disturbing.</p>
<p>Disturbing yes, but when you think of how slutty behavior has been glorified for the past ten or fifteen years, starting with Madonna and continuing with Friends and SITC. . . Is it any wonder that girls emulate what the culture tells them is cool?</p>
<p>Suna,
You're right. I think the only thing that makes anyone consider this kind of thing newsworthy is that young women, rather than young men, are involved in it.</p>
<p>Now, imagine for a moment if one of the kids in those pictures was your kid. How would you react? </p>
<p>Me - that kid would be home so soon her head would spin. Can you say community college and house arrest?</p>
<p>Taken out of school for what?? Wearing more clothing than most girls wear to the beach, playing some goofy sorority type games and having a beer? Better bring home every college age girl out there then. Did you ever go to Spring Break?? Much worse.</p>
<p>I think most parents would hesitate to take a kid away from a prestitious university, and the kids know it. In a way, they're kind of untouchable there, as long as they stay on the right side of the law. Perhaps many feel that their parents' main concern is that they get good grades, and as long as they're doing that, personal behavior is of no concern.</p>
<p>Are you even allowed to force your kid to return home?, implying that all of these girls are 18 years of age or older.</p>
<p>Honestly, if any of you think that the stuff shown in those pictures is anything but tame, just don't let your kids leave home for college.</p>
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<p>The parent generally controls the purse strings.</p>
<p>Much ado about nothing. As Barrons said, the only differences here are:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>someone took pictures</p></li>
<li><p>the pictures were put on a website</p></li>
<li><p>some moral police group found the website</p></li>
<li><p>CC parents seem to think all should be tame at college</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Geesh, we have kids dying from binge drinking. We have frat boys who die from hazing. We get excited about a sports team with relatively mild initiation activities?</p>
<p>I don't condone what went on, but, IMHO, some of the reactions here are way overboard.</p>