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Name:Deo Richard Marcelo August 15,2011

What is HAZING? Hazing is a dangerous form of initiation it can include sexual and physical abuse mental and emotional abuse and degrading acts of humiliation, Hazing can take place in all types of groups including but not limited to sororities fraternities the military and even the work place While it seems harmless hazing can have lasting effects on the pledges it can cause a number of mental problems such as anxiety disorders eating disorders post dramatic stress disorder and depression. The need to belong drives many pledges into these groups. Hazing is not only traumatizing it is dangers people have died in hazing rituals. hazing is a tradition in many groups around the world. Some states now have laws to prevent hazing how ever despite the laws hazing still remains a popular way to initiate. For the pledges embarrassment and pain is a ritual a tradition they must follow in order to belong, Many see it as a game they think that what there doing is all in good fun that it is harmless and posses no threat. Hazing is a form of torment it is simply designed to break a person down so that they may be built according to the laws of the group that there being initiated into to. Pledges are forced to do things they would not normally do sexual favors drinking drugs facing certain fears and going against there moral beliefs. They are also subjected to public humiliation and face a life time of regret and shame. 67% of people agree that a significant part of initiation is humiliation. Hazing rituals are designed to be as humiliating as possible for the pledges. Most pledges swear an oath to stay silent and to not tell anyone what is really happening within a certain group.

46% believe that the most important thing is to keep the silence and remain under oath. 36% will not report hazing. 1.5 million students are hazed a year. hazing needs to stop find out what you can do to protect yourself and those you love from hazing visit your local hazing web site and get involved.

What caused by hazing? "Hazing." Any action or situation which recklessly or intentionally endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student or which willfully destroys or removes public or private property for the purpose of initiation or admission into or affiliation with, or as a condition for continued membership in, any organization operating under the sanction for or recognized as an organization by an institution of higher education. (Pennsylvania State Legislature). When most people hear the term hazing it conjures up images of fraternities. In reality however, hazing occurs in many arenas including fraternities and sororities, the military, athletic teams, and student organizations (like marching bands) at both high school and college levels. Most believe that hazing is in fraternities and is nothing more then silly antics and harmless pranks. Unlike what many people think, hazing is an abuse of power that can have debilitating and life-threatening consequences (Elizabeth J. Allen, Ph.D.). The major causes of hazing are the need for a sense of belonging, the school's infrequent knowledge of what occurs in its organizations, and the unwillingness of fraternities, athletic teams, and other organizations to change tradition.

One cause of hazing is that members do not want to change tradition. Hazing has been a part of typical initiations ever since most associations were founded. Hazing was used to test the pledges that wanted to join the fraternity, athletic team, sororities, the military, and student organizations, to make sure that the pledge was "the right material." According to one pledge, fraternity members have "'a feeling that if I went through it, you should too... " (Millay). If people think this way then how can hazing be prevented so that innocent men and women do not die just for friends and a "feeling of belonging." Stories of hazing incidents are all too common in the news media today. It would not be out of the ordinary, upon opening the newspaper, to read the testimony of some fraternity pledges "'We were taken to a deserted park and blindfolded...We sat on our knees for an hour. Then they began slapping us on the back of our necks, real hard, and then they started pouring hot wax down our back'" (Millay CL). Also, an article stating that "...A sophomore at Alfred University in New York was locked in a car trunk with two others and told to drink a bottle of Jack Daniels, wine and a six-pack of beer, one wintry night in 1978. He died of alcohol poisoning and exposure" (O'Connor 32). These establishments are getting away with hazing practices, every single day. If a stranger did this to a civilian, they would automatically be arrested and imprisoned. The humiliations of hazing are said to build bonds between pledges, players and fraternity brothers. According to beliefs, the theory goes, if you and a couple of friends go through initiations, drinking excessive amounts of beer and being beaten by other (usually older) members etc., and only you and your friends go

through it, then this gives you all something in common. An example of a hazing victim is typically a white male 19 to 20 years of age, who is experiencing some types of injuries between the months of February and April or September and October (the pledging seasons). Men are experiencing injuries including those caused by "blunt force (beatings, paddling, motor vehicle crashes, pedestrian accidents, and falls from height), cold exposure, heat exhaustion, gunshot, asphyxia, electrocution, cannon and beerkeg explosions,..." (Taft 2113), just to name a few. These supposedly bring the union "together." Since hazing has been around for more than a century, one cannot expect the practice of hazing to stop all together. It will probably take years before hazing perishes. Nevertheless, until an end is put to hazing, solutions can be used to make hazing less common, until it no longer exists. These solutions that may be able to put an eventual stop to hazing, in the long run, are better education about fraternity hazing, stricter laws to prevent hazing from occurring, and more intervention from organization administrators.

What is the effect by hazing?

In my interviewed former members of the fraternity and sororities on this statement, many U the effect of joining them here in shaping their personality. One considered the very essence of their participation in fraternities and sororities are belongingness or be subject to many friends or partakers in an emergency. And according to them, they actually saw the real support of their big brads and sister. So that, also their belief that nothing gets hurt them and if any great defense against them. Moreover, the encouragement or self-confidence is also one of the reasons. Each member of a sorority, fraternity and progresses to severe test to prove their courage and coming, so there are more stronger and strong, their feeling especially when they exceeded all of hazing or initiation rites in fraternities and sororities that joining them. Since U does not merely test their scrolls. Usually also said, there is the tendency of members to get one like that just for being wild, brute, at the trendy and super bilib himself and arrogant. This negative tendency to see them the most, which is why many are opposed to the maintenance of fraternities and sororities on campuses. But those who became members here much useful and contributed to them precisely because the Brotherhood which it gave them courage, firmness and courage. Previously many positive pervasive say the fraternities and sororities, such that only one of those I interviewed who helped her sis who joined his fraternity in college with a large position in a company that gave him the job. But with the passage of time,

nothing good pervasive it because I hear by, that hazings dying because of the rituals that considered each new member to participate here. Consequently, you implement the government's anti-hazing law, which became the way so there are schools that prohibited the presence of fraternities and sororities. And also The effect on participation in such organization has positive and negative aspects. Ifmembers of fraternities and sororities has huge can help their organization for thedevelopment of their own, to turn to others it may caused only scene of confusion and intolerance. Let us not blame its members, but the passage of time, thefraternities and sororities are gumigimbal the lives of young people especially parentswhere inisasyon occurs will lead to chronic pain or if not will the death of members.Because of the bad news gathered about the fraternities and sororities today, our government, from local or national makes measures to stop its spread. Even some universities have prohibited this type of organization. Just for the sake of youth,they say to stop the fraternities and sororities in their activities or any initiative.

Whatshould be done about it?

Harassment and bullying are two topics that have claimed a great deal of media and educator attention. Obviously, Catholic educators are opposed to demeaning behavior in any form. Hazing, a particular form of harassment, has been around schools for a long time. Most readers have probably experienced hazing in some form in their school careers, although it may have masqueraded under the title of initiation and seemed fairly harmless: requiring students to wear signs stating, I am a lowly freshman, I am the slave of the varsity basketball team; forbidding students to use a certain set of stairs and/or making them take a longer way to get to their classrooms. Some hazing, though, has escalated out of control as students have suffered severe injuries and even death. The reader may wish to consider definitions of harassment and bullying. Blacks Law Dictionary defines harassment as: Used in variety of legal contexts to describe words, gestures and actions which tend to annoy, alarm and abuse another person. Harassment occurs, then, when one person makes repeated verbal or physical contacts with another person who does not want these contacts. Sexual harassment is a particular type of harassment that involves sexual comments, innuendo, invitations and/or requests for sexual favors. Sexual harassment is generally fairly clear; other types of harassment can be more blurred and may be harder to identify.

Bullying is a type of harassment that involves some sort of force, whether overt or subtle. For example, today exclusion is widely considered to be a form of bullying, even though there may be no apparent contact. By ignoring and/or excluding an individual from participation, the bully shows his or her power. Of course, more traditional forms of bullying can still be found in schools. The student who forces another student to steal items from a grocery store or face some dire consequence is bullying the individual. When that kind of behavior is required as payment for belonging to a team or club, hazing is occurring. Hazing refers to any activity expected of someone joining a group (or to maintain full status in a group) that humiliates, degrades or risks emotional and/or physical harm, regardless of the persons willingness to participate. . . .Hazing is a complex social problem that is shaped by power dynamics operating in a group and/or organization and within a particular cultural context. Today, many forms of hazing are being reported from relatively simple ones to such activities as: burning, branding, paddling, depriving persons of sleep and food, forcing individuals to drink alcohol, often in large amounts, and compelling persons to engage in unreasonable amounts of physical exercise, to name a few. Some popular high school hazing activities today involve such actions as slapping an initiate on the arm, leg, thigh or stomach until the body part turns red, forcing a student to urinate in public, forcing a student to put his or her head in a toilet (a practice called swirling), and requiring a student to eat until he or she vomits. Administrators, athletic directors, coaches, teachers and

moderators need to pay close attention to student activities, talk and the proverbial rumor mill. If students are talking about hazing activities, the administration needs to be informed and an investigation begun. Teachers, other supervisors and even team captains can be held liable for one young persons harassment, bullying and/or hazing of another if they knew or should have known about it. Including hazing in the list of prohibited behaviors may raise awareness.Educators really have five main duties in the prevention of harassment in general and hazing in particular. They are: 1. duty to minimize risks: teachers should periodically examine practices and routines to see if there are times and places when harassment and hazing are more likely to occur and should take appropriate actions to minimize the likelihood of occurrence. 2. duty to educate students: educators need to show in word and deed that all demeaning behavior, including hazing, is not appropriate and is never funny. 3. duty to investigate: if a student expresses discomfort or reports being hazed or witnessing someone else being hazed, the educator should carefully investigate. 4. duty to remedy violations: Students who engage in hazing should be disciplined. 5. duty to monitor students and situations: Teachers are responsible for knowing what is going on. In some litigation involving hazing, allegations have been made that

educators knew that students were being hazed and did nothing.