At first I thought it was just something wrongly depicted in movies just like the big breakfast at home before school, but but after seeing the news lately was it really common when you were in collage?
Like would you be walking through campus and see people getting hated just like in happy death day?
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Quite uncommon but exists
Very very rare. You may see what most ppl would call it at places like The Citadel and VMI more open. But state universities yes frats haze but the really bad stuff is rare and its usually smaller things like initiates have to stay at the frat house for home football games and clean etc.
Most hazing usuly involves a mixture of alcohol and exercise
“Dog bites man” is not news, “man bites dog” is news.
News is reported because it is unique and intriguing, not because it is normal and mundane.
Also another news story that never gets reported: bullying happens all over the world, more at 11.
Sadly not as common as gay porn suggests 🥺.
I can’t tell you about today but a higher proportion than average of my friends were/are frat men and we were all hazed to some extent.
I’m sure it exists. But, I’ve never done it, had it happen to me, or heard about happening to anyone I’ve ever known. I guess it helps that I had no interest in Greek life in college… but, still.
It happens but it isn’t as common as it’s portrayed in movies and TV shows. Usually it’s lighthearted task but there are still serious issues that have happened, which is what those movies and TV shows are based around.
Hazing still exists, and Pan-Hellenic organizations know it exists. It’s just out of sight so that university officials don’t wag their fingers.
And then when someone loses a testicle, suddenly everyone goes full PR Mode talking about how X frat is out of line
Hazing in my fraternity was more fun than anything. We had a “hell week” which was the worst, but never did anything that was as bad as the movies. It was mainly reciting stuff and doing goofy shit to cut down egos. Kind of a “I only do to you what I’m cool you doing to me.”
I know some fraternities go too far, but word spreads. People don’t want to rush those.
Not very common anymore. Most “hazing” I’ve heard of second-hand from old classmates and friends was pretty much on par with an average drinking game to promote a sense of fun and bonding in a frat, none of that crazy stuff you see on tv.
It’s very common in universities, but it’s usually limited to specific sports teams, clubs, or social groups. It’s kept very secret when it happens. Obviously it’s deeply frowned upon, and if word gets out there are consequences, so if you don’t know someone who went through it firsthand you’d likely never know it happened at all.
There are different degrees of it though. My school had one frat who would partner their new kids up in pairs, and if they were seen without their buddy they’d be literally kidnapped and hazed (forced to drink, cold showers with their clothes on, etc) til their partner found & rescued them. And another frat who would just make the new kids perform skits for everyone, or sort Skittles by color under a blacklight.
It exists enough for it to still be talked but not “common” enough for anyone to care or do anything about it
It’s technically illegal now and schools crack down on it very hard
lol no. It happens in small, specialized groups to varying degrees. For example, if you’re new to a sports team or a Greek organization, you will likely be hazed. Again, the severity of the hazing ranges from innocent fun to dangerous physical assaults; the latter being very very rare and therefore the kind that is depicted because it is the most sensationalist of the types of hazing that occur. Sometimes hazing that is meant to be harmless (heavy drinking parties where new recruits are forced to drink a lot) turn out to be deadly and make national news. Again, it’s rare.
I’ve never seen someone get hazed in my life. I’ve only ever seen people get bullied on a handful of occasions. It’s rare.
Not very common, it’s just a lot of rich kids have trouble making friends and think getting into a fraternity is the only way, so they will put up with a lot. MOST frats don’t so anything extreme.
A lot of my more upper class friends in college where somewhat shocked at the ease others (including me) expressed and asserted themselves, they are used to a more regimented and academic environment.
It happens, especially w fraternities/sororities and at the military colleges, but it’s pretty rare nowadays and cases that result in the severe injury or death of somebody usually makes the news for a bit.
BGSU in NW Ohio … A student was killed because of hazzing … Trials are happening now
Hazing was a much bigger issue in the past. I remember hazing of freshman being an official part of the Catholic high school i attended. The event was called “Fish Fry” and it was during “Freshmen Week” this would be the mid 1990s.
At university there was hazing but it was already something that had to be underground and out of sight, because schools started cracking down hard. My high school got rid of fish fry when I was a junior.
Now the really wild part was the hazing I saw was pretty mild. But the stories I heard about it from people who were 10-20 years older made it sound much more extreme.
Hazing happened to freshmen in high school when I went. Upperclassmen would draw fish on them with sharpies the first Friday of the school year “Fish Friday”. When my ma was in high school she said they’d whip pennies at them.
When I got into the plumbers union we were all hazed too by journeyman. Making up fake tools, fake fittings, etc and having us run all over jobsites looking for stuff not there lol.
Extremely rare. And almost always strictly against policy or illegal.
Do you honestly believe adults are just assaulting others constantly on college campuses?
I was in college in the early 2010s and it was not uncommon at my school. There was at least one major incidence each semester that caused the university to investigate a particular greek house or club, often leading to suspensions. It was even prevalent in other student organizations. I was in the marching band and a few years before I joined they were put on university probation for hazing. I also rushed the gay frat on campus and there was a fair amount of “innocent hazing.” I ultimately didn’t join as I was a sophomore and didn’t want to put up with it, but most freshmen went through the full pledge process.
And this all happened at a big academic school that regularly ends up on “worst party schools” lists. I’ve heard the university has severely cracked down on hazing since I was there.