<p>you know the hazing that occurs when your start a college. how common is that. i'll be going to a large state school in january and i just wanna be prepared.Please tell me what happens and how you dealt with it.</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>only if you join a fraternity/sorority (or some other frat/sorat type group) will you potentially be hazed. many frats/sorats don't haze anymore because they've already gotten in trouble.</p>
<p>Hazing is illegal in most states. As for the hazing when you start at college remark, what? College isn't high school. There isn't a such thing as "Freshman Friday". People at state schools are way too busy with classes, work, studying, and other activities to pay attention to new students on campus. If anything, new students are spoiled rotten in terms of freshman/transfer welcome events. As for fraternities and sororities hazing, most don't since it's illegal. If you decide to rush a greek-letter organization, you're going to have to go through an educational period where you learn about the organization, its members, and your pledge siblings before you can call yourself a member of the organization, and that is not hazing, that is pledging.</p>
<p>It really depends on the circles you decide to join.</p>
<p>I'd assert that one great aspect of college is that age becomes much less of a factor. In my opinion, after first semester of freshman year (which really isn't all that bad), no one cares what year you are part of at all. </p>
<p>However, if you choose to join certain (that is the keyword) fraternities or sororities or clubs (at my school certain theatre and outdoors clubs) there can be some minor hazing. Illegal? Almost always. However, today's hazing is much less physical and much more "fun" -- scavenger hunts, crazy dares, alcohol etc. Just be prepared to set your own limits and stick by them. No organization is worth compromising your standards.</p>
<p>wow. i had no idea. see i came another country where freshmen in colleges and schools are ALWAYS hazed in the first week. i thought it was the same here. </p>
<p>well thanks. one less thing to worry about.</p>
<p>From what I've heard, there used to be more hazing. Not sure if it still goes on in frats or not, but I'd suspect that is where most of it goes on/went on, as well as sports teams.</p>
<p>It was a bigger problem in high school. Our class was the last to get hazed. The soccer team got it worst--I know a guy who had to rub Ben Gay on his dual spheroids (you figure it out). In the band there was a guy who had to wear an umbrella on his head and another guy who got duct taped to the flagpole. The duct tape incident was what caused the school police officer to ban any hazing from everywhere in the school.</p>
<p>Despite this, people still made the freshmen do their work and most seniors were too mean to them. I was actually criticized by my fellow seniors for being too friendly with the freshmen--I'd go out of my way to make sure they weren't being abused or anything and I would always treat them like human beings and not like slaves. I had some deep and meaningful friendships with some of the folks three years my junior and on my last day I broke down in the hallway when I realized I'd never have school with one of them again--and I'm not normally an emotional guy.</p>
<p>Where hazing is still common is MLB. Players have to dress up on some of the road trips during their rookie years and I'm sure they play pranks on them in the clubhouse that you don't hear about. Not sure about other sports, but I know the costumes (usually on the airplane or bus) are pretty common for MLB rookies (at least on the Pittsburgh Pirates anyway).</p>
<p>I may sound a little stupid but what is hazing ???? Is it giving a hard time to juniors or something like that?</p>
<p>Hazing isn't common at all, IME. You will be put under social pressures to conform but this is hardly hazing. I pledged a sorority and although I felt a bit pressured to do certain things(going out to clubs, parties, drinking, dressing a certain way, etc) I would not call this hazing because had I not chosen to do any of the things I mentioned, there woudn't have been any adverse consequences.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.stophazing.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.stophazing.org/</a></p>
<p>I don't entirely agree with their definition (or more the way they apply it to some situations), but this type of language is common to most state's anti-hazing laws....</p>
<p>Hazing in order to join a frat/sor. is just pure bulll. Seriously, it defeats the whole purpose of being in a brotherhood/sisterhood.</p>
<p>Some places, like my high school, called it "initiations". However, if you use a theoretical site called "urbanthesaurus", it would probably be on there. They use that term so they don't get caught or anything.</p>
<p>(They have an Urban Dictionary, why not an Urban Thesaurus?)</p>
<p>Thanks..10</p>
<p>True hazing, where the activity has the risk of causing bodily harm or subjects one to severe mental distress, is outlawed by all colleges and also outlawed by many criminal laws. Traditionally hazing has not been a risk for freshman in general but instead those who pledge to join a fraternity or sorority (and more so fraternities). To a great extent it has been eliminated because it is outlawed. However, every now and then a story crops up about a student being injured or even killed by hazing. You can make rules and laws that outlaw hazing, but you cannot make rules and laws that prevent idiots from acting like such.</p>
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