Hazing Athletes: A Benefit or a Burden.
Although hazing athletes has been thought to exist only in fraternities and the military, it is also becoming an insidious problem in athletics, especially for high school and college students. A survey conducted by Alfred University, of 325,000 athletes at more than 1,000 National Collegiate Athletic Association schools, says that of the athletes surveyed, more than 250,000 of them experienced some form of hazing to join a college athletic team. Alfred University defines hazing as "any activity expected of someone joining a group that humiliates, degrades, abuses or endangers, regardless of the person's willingness to participate- (Kelly 1). Athletes who haze one another are more likely to make others haze because they have had it done to them at one time or another. If hazing should be done, it should be done for laughs not to put an athletes life in danger. .
Most people do not realize that "unhealthy- hazing is even a problem in today's society. Another issue not realized is that the genre of athletes does not only affect male sports, but can affect female athletes as well. Elizabeth Allan explains a story of young sophomore girls who are hazed by their older teammates:.
Picture yourself as a 15 year-old girl at a summer sports camp with your high school field hockey team. As part of a so-called initiation rite to build the team's spirit, senior teammates put you through five days of .
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torture, a gauntlet of twisted rituals. They tell you to bob for pig's feet, smear your buttocks and underwear with syrup, wear a dog collar, refer to your self as a slut, fill your mouth with hot peppers and fireball candy while the older girls tape your lips shut, and squeeze you and your sophomore teammates into a bathroom on a bus. As a final touch, the older girls preserve these embarrassing rituals on videotape. After you return home, you learn the tape is shown to boys from your high school (3).
Pros/Cons Chart Hazing Pros Cons 1. Hazing issues a sense of unity. 1. ... Hazing is a societal problem. ... Consequences: We should petition and increase education about hazing and about the consequences of hazing. ... Hazing can also lead to anger and hatred. ...
This survey showed students would acknowledge a wide range of hazing-type behaviors, but were most often reluctant to label them "hazing." ... Most hazing is done out of fun and games. ... People will haze regardless. ... By some it is believed that hazing is never going to be completely stopped, so alternatives just to major hazing should be used. ... Hazing means many different things to different people. ...
The truth is hazing is an issue about which all students need to learn. ... Hazing continues today due to the fact that most students think of hazing as the norm, fraternities have different views about hazing, and these organizations have different initiation methods. ... Not all types of hazing are harmful, but most are; "71% of students have one or more negative consequences resulting from hazing" (Hoover and Pullard). ... The final, and most publicized type of hazing is "Hazardous Hazing: Hazardous hazing includes actions which endanger life or mental health" (Duggan and Taylor). ... As...
Hazing, Is it all that bad? ... Transition: You may think that hazing is a form of brainwashing I. ... In order to keep secret these rituals people tend to use a form of hazing. ... There are more forms of harmless hazing than there are of the dangerous kind. ... It is absolutely true that hazing is illegal in most states a. ...
Hazing occurs in many groups, but none are as common as in fraternities. ... Examples of activities that are considered hazing include two major types: subtle hazing and harassment hazing. ... Hazing has become a very dangerous activity on college campuses. ... He was subjected to hazing on more than one occasion. ... There also needs to be better education about hazing, stricter laws to prevent hazing, and more intervention by administrators (StopHazing.org). ...
Ammons, will keep his position during an investigation into a student death believed to be a result of hazing despite Governor Rick Scott's orders to suspend Ammons. ... Students then came forward to the band director, Julian White, stating that Champion had been punched repeatedly during a hazing ritual (Alvarez). Bria Hunter, another band member, came forward shortly after to retell her own experience with hazing. ... White, the band director, allowed police access to several reports documenting student suspensions for hazing. ... Alumni, who have received bad rap for not taking a st...
According to a national survey entitled Initiation Rites in American High Schools conducted by faculty members at Alfred University in New York, hazing is prevalent among American high school students, and all students who join groups are at risk of being hazed. ... Let's begin by taking a closer look at the cycle of coverage since high school hazing hit the news in 1981. ... According to the Lexis-Nexis sample, the first television mention of high school hazing occurred on January 1, 1991, on "CBS This Morning". ... Radio and television mentions were generally brief incident reports...
