Two More College Hazing Incidents - Page 7

itsmagic · ‎08-08-2011

@77yangya wrote:
@itsmagic wrote:
@novamc1 You’re so right about college football weekend parties. We have season football tickets to games at a major local university and the excessive drinking at tailgate parties by not only students but older adults is over the top.
The subject is hazing. Not parties. Let's try to stay on the page. Any party can get out of hand but hazing in the colleges is a chronic problem.

Sorry to join the conversation and agree with another poster.

Tinkerbell3 · ‎03-10-2010

DISGUSTING.... I think it is absolutely OUTRAGEOUS that any of this is permitted! What is wrong with these young people??? It's disturning. And...during a pandemic nonetheless!

novamc1 · ‎07-02-2015

@Tinkerbell3

In reply to your question:

What's "wrong" with those young people is..............they are young people.

There's nothing new about what people in that age group can get themselves into, Only a small proportion of that group belongs to Greek fraternities, by the way.

Do you have a solution? Should we lock up kids at home until they outgrow their youth?

novamc1 · ‎07-02-2015

It might surprise some here that fraternity members are just like other college students. They are expected to get up in the morning, attend classes, make decent grades in a chosen field of study and graduate.

Frat houses pride themselves on maintaining a high grade-point average among their members.

Bums who did nothing remarkable in high school--academically, sports-wise, or extracurricularly-- aren't even invited to join the better Greek organizations.

Calling these young people "drunks" is way over the top in generalizations.

77yangya · ‎06-21-2011

Students who have endured hazing want to "get even" so the next ones that are beginning the whole thing are REALLY in for it. I saw a documentary on it.

novamc1 · ‎07-02-2015

@77yangya

My husband says his favorite way of 'hazing" pledges was to require them to wash his car "every single day" while he was off at class or basketball practice.

How's that for vicious "revenge"?

proudlyfromNJ · ‎05-01-2010

@novamc1 wrote:
It might surprise some here that fraternity members are just like other college students. They are expected to get up in the morning, attend classes, make decent grades in a chosen field of study and graduate.

Frat houses pride themselves on maintaining a high grade-point average among their members.

Bums who did nothing remarkable in high school--academically, sports-wise, or extracurricularly-- aren't even invited to join the better Greek organizations.

Calling these young people "drunks" is way over the top in generalizations.

@novamc1 Yours is also a generalization. It all depends. And yes you do need to keep a certain grade point average. Not every fraternity is the same. I've been to some where drinking and drinking heavily is abundant. Of course this just could be Friday night letting off steam. Things do happen, obviously.

novamc1 · ‎07-02-2015

@proudlyfromNJ

At the risk of saying the same thing over again. this stuff doesn't just happen in fraternities.

PINKdogWOOD · ‎05-13-2010

@occasionalrain Seriously - popularity paramount amoung literally thousands of kids on one college campus many with MONEY buying their way into being stupid instead of why they're really there.

Disgusting. And deadly sometimes. Sad and disgusting.