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Term Paper Title	Hazing
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Hazing

[Category]:

Social Issues

[Paper Title]:

Hazing: Is it really necessary?

[Text]:

Hazing: Is it really necessary?

Having never been or wanting to be in a fraternity. I haven’t figured out
why they choose such ridiculous hazing rituals who would want to be ridiculed,
humiliated, and/or physically abused by someone who will later be your “brother”.
Lives have been taken many times by these hazing rituals and fraternities still
continue to hurt people. If these people are supposed to be your friends, who
needs enemies?

Hazing has been around for many years and without knowing it, a lot more
people than one would think have died from hazing and initiations. The first
reported was in “1905” in Lima, Ohio school” It was found that William
Taylor a 13 year old boy died of pneumonia caused by “when classmates put snow
down his back”. (Watts/Grolier) As the years have gone by the hazing still
continue and were on a rise but slowly becoming useless because so many are
putting it down.

Hazing is one of the main issues that surround fraternities. Hazing is the
initiating of pledges to drink excessive quantities of alcohol, consume large
quantities of food, or submit to beatings with a paddle. Since deaths and
serious injuries have come about from hazing most states enact laws prohibiting
it.

“The acts of hazing in all its manifestations are unnecessary and have
proved to cause harm to individuals, families and the careers of promising men
and women” (Butler, 88)

Hazing is not just known in fraternities and sororities. Hazing has been
found in the military, sports, gangs and now in high schools. “Almost half the
high school students who answered a nationwide survey said they were made to eat
disgusting things, abuse alcohol or drugs or perform humiliating or illegal acts
to join athletic teams, the band, even church groups.” (Hazing’s not A3)
Younger people have always been taught to look up to their peers. What college
students do high school and even middle school students are going to want to
imitate what the older students do. They feel that some young teens participate
in these hazing rituals to have a since of belonging, it is to bad that young
children need to participate in these types of activities just to make them feel
like they fit in.

The military has the most unheard of hazing rituals. The Marines are given
basic training week and if you complete the paratroopers training they are given
their golden wings. “The wings are a pin wi...

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