The Abuse and Endangerment of An Athlete's Rights?.
Current issues have forced NCAA athletics to deal and confront the dangerous acts of team hazing. On January 14th, the University of Vermont men's hockey season was forced to a sudden halt. With thirteen games left, the team's 23 remaining players were read a litany of their sins by the state's attorney general, William Sorrell. He stated the schools handling of the hazing incident(s) was "conducted loosely while specific evidence was withheld that lead to a slow indecisive investigation," which resulted in his intervention (Hoover). .
Hazing is a long practiced and in many cases long accepted rite of initiation in such cliques as military and college fraternities and athletics. It is a relatively new current issue and needs to be seriously addressed. Last August Alfred (NY) University released a study that included two hundred and twenty four participating institutions that submitted names and addresses of 61,258 student athletes. From the responses, they found that 80% of responding college athletes were subjected to alcohol-related hazing and more than 20% to such other activities. Of the participating institutions, the UVM was not one of them (Hoover). Clearly, UVM and other organizations must be more vigilant. Greater and more effective efforts must be made to know what students are doing, and perhaps more importantly, what and how they are thinking. Team or group bonding experiences that attain the desired results without harassing humiliations and dangers must be developed and promoted. .
Across societies and time, people have initiated new members into groups through ceremonies and rituals designed to foster a feeling of belonging. Yet, sometimes those activities cross the line into hazing. Hazing, defined by Alfred University, is "any activity expected of someone joining a group that humiliates, degrades, abuses or endangers, regardless of the person's willingness to participate"(Wieberg C2).
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. ...
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 ...
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...
