Hazing is defined as “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 person's willingness to participate”. Ranked.com has listed the “The 14 Most Brutal College Hazing Rituals” as
14. Raw Liver, No Teeth
13. Drinking Two Gallons of A Drink Called "Death" (a concoction of ketchup and tabasco sauce)
12. Exercises in Feces and Urine
11. Circling the Fat on Your Body
10. Trivia Questions: Choose Your Object (if they answered the question incorrectly, they were told to pick from a knife, sharpie or a dildo to be violated with)
9. Public Body-Critiquing Assembly
8. All the Alcohol You Can('t) Take in 90 Minutes
7. Water Overdoses
6. Paddling (It's Worse Than It Sounds) (being beaten for hours and days on end led to the hospitalization of a sorority pledge who was no longer able to sit due to the welts and blood clots on her buttocks)
5. The Elephant Walk (this is one of three things all involving males; walk in a straight line holding the erect penis of the person in front of you, walking in a straight line while holding the erect penis of the person in front of them while having their thumb up their anus or walking in a straight line with their thumb in their mouths and the other in the anus of the person in front of them)
4. Boob Ranking (girls stand in order of smallest boobs to biggest)
3. Boiling Hot Water On Back, Chest, Genitals
2. Cocaine or Dildo: Your Choice (girls have to either be penetrated with a dildo in front of everyone or do a line of cocaine)
1. Raped by a Sharpie Marker
Some of these are absolutely disgusting. I would never want to have to endure some of the things these people have to go through. Which, in your opinion, sounds the worst? Personally, for some of these, I’m glad I am not a boy and I’m glad I’m good at trivia. These rituals make me never want to pledge a sorority and that, to me, is very sad. Fraternities and sororities are supposed to be fun and rites of passage, not activities that can physically and emotionally harm people, embarrass them and even kill them.
The university I attended largely revolved around the sororities and fraternities. Some of the stories I heard were inconceivable, and for that reason I steered clear of joining as well. The big hazing rituals I heard about were the expectation of consuming large amounts of alcohol over a short period of time, which led to several cases of passing out, vomiting and alchol poisoning. Many of my friends were subject to the circling of fat which caused eating disorders both large and simple. There were also rumors of vomiting contests where the girls would gorge themselves at mealtime and then see who could not only vomit the most, but the fastest. What makes any of this fun? And how is it possible to manage or stop this? Why would people engage in this type of behavior and put themselves through this to just be accepted into a group? I think it is absolutely insane and that hazing should be made illegal or there should be severe ramifications if incidents are reported.
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