By PETER APPLEBOMEOne student said she feared for her boyfriend’s health and ability to do his schoolwork because he was coming home from fraternity pledging around 4 a.m. with gashes and cuts on his hands and elbows that reopened daily.
Another student said he was hazed night after night, until right before morning classes. He wrote in an anonymous e-mail to the university, “I was hosed, waterboarded, force-fed disgusting mixtures of food, went through physical exercises until I passed out, and crawled around outside in my boxers to the point where my stomach, elbows, thighs and knees are filled with cuts, scrapes and bruises.”
It is a new school year at Binghamton University, one of the most prestigious public institutions in the Northeast. But the most urgent order of business is one left over from the last school year — a hazing scandal that forced the university to suspend pledging and induction at all fraternities and sororities.
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A friend of mine's son died from alcohol poisoning at a university in Colorado from hazing several years ago.
ReplyDeleteI have never gotten how to possibly be friends or allies with people who would do horrible things to me in order for me to be one of them. Does Go Geek Girl take stuff like this into consideration?
Go Geek Girl, heh heh.
ReplyDeleteBut seriously: not that this is blaming the victim because the hazers are the criminals here, but QUIT already! What kind of assholes do you want to join up with? Are you excited to turn around and do this to other people? Or to break your family's and friends' heart by dying? Ugh.
my frat was VERY anti-hazing and not just physical, but mental. Basically we cleaned the house, washed the dishes, woke the Active sup in the morning, and other normal menial jobs. And we learned our frat's history. I think attending a small, church-affiliated SLAC helped. But I never understood the whole idea of hazing anyway. Why would you want to join a bunch of guys who got off on hurting you? Greek houses that haze should be banned from campus, period.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you. The worst my brothers did was silly little pranks. I got an exhaust whistle in my car's tailpipe.
DeleteYou know what? No one's forcing anyone to be in a frat or a sorority. It's not like you get drafted into one. Hazing is a serious issue on college campuses, but it's not going to stop until the dumbass students themselves stop deliberately trying to get into organizations that pull this kind of shit.
ReplyDeleteSo, one student complains: “I was hosed, waterboarded, force-fed disgusting mixtures of food, went through physical exercises until I passed out, and crawled around outside in my boxers to the point where my stomach, elbows, thighs and knees are filled with cuts, scrapes and bruises.”
Cry me a river. How about, when they start hosing you, you say "Quit that, assholes!" and leave? Or after the FIRST time you're waterboarded, you get the fuck out of there? No one forced you to crawl around on the ground in your boxers, you lame-brained motherfucker. Where are you, GITMO?
Seriously.
Sheeple!!!!
Delete"Where are you, GITMO?"
ReplyDeleteActually, if I'm not mistaken, frats like this produce the men who authorized Gitmo!
I was also thinking along Stella's lines. Don't volunteer for abuse.
ReplyDeleteThat would go for some adjuncts also.