Anyone watch the documentary about college hazing on PBS?

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Anonymous wrote:This is why I refused to allow our students to get involved with the Greek houses at college. They wanted to because they crave the social life. But there is more terrible stuff beyond hazing and young people are vulnerable and lonely.

How can you refuse an adult to make a decision for them.

My DD currently at a state school in GA and in a sorority has NEVER been hazed.

Lol, you are naive if u think she’s never been hazed

You are really naive if you think you know the policies on most campuses with regard to hazing.

She has NEVER been hazed!

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Anonymous wrote:This is why I refused to allow our students to get involved with the Greek houses at college. They wanted to because they crave the social life. But there is more terrible stuff beyond hazing and young people are vulnerable and lonely.

How can you refuse an adult to make a decision for them.

My DD currently at a state school in GA and in a sorority has NEVER been hazed.

Could your kid afford it without parental support? I think we paid something like 600 a year!

My kid worked her butt off to pay for her sorority. We actually communicate. I know for a fact she hasn’t been hazed.

Sororities are a magnet for mean girls. Just saying.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this primarily a large school thing? I went to a very small school and really never heard anything like this going on.

How small is "very small?"

Here is a list of Hazing deaths--and these are just DEATHS, not every instance or even instances that ended in injury.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hazing_deaths_in_the_United_States

There are all kind of schools there--Big schools, small schools, public schools, private schools, Ivy league, HBUC....

3500 undergrads. And also I'm a girl. This list is almost entirely men. Men are idiots with terrible judgement.

There are schools about that size or smaller than that on the list (Wabash, Rider University-just off the top of my head.)

Yes, mostly men have died.

I hope you don't have any sons.

Why do you hope I don't have sons? My husband is a man (obviously) and tells me all the time what an idiot he was in college. They are way more likely to lack impulse control and engage in a mob-mentality behavior than girls are. They are also more likely to think they are invincible. Its important for them to know this.

Because you made an insulting comment applying to all males. YOUR husband is an idiot but not all males are. My sons are not.

FWIW, I hope you don't have daughters either. People like you and your husband should not procreate.

You are really naive to think this couldn't happen to your children.

I never said that it couldn't happen to my children. I said my sons are not idiots.
Are you saying that everyone that has been hazed is an idiot? Nice victim blaming.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this primarily a large school thing? I went to a very small school and really never heard anything like this going on.

How small is "very small?"

Here is a list of Hazing deaths--and these are just DEATHS, not every instance or even instances that ended in injury.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hazing_deaths_in_the_United_States

There are all kind of schools there--Big schools, small schools, public schools, private schools, Ivy league, HBUC....

3500 undergrads. And also I'm a girl. This list is almost entirely men. Men are idiots with terrible judgement.

There are schools about that size or smaller than that on the list (Wabash, Rider University-just off the top of my head.)

Yes, mostly men have died.

I hope you don't have any sons.

Why do you hope I don't have sons? My husband is a man (obviously) and tells me all the time what an idiot he was in college. They are way more likely to lack impulse control and engage in a mob-mentality behavior than girls are. They are also more likely to think they are invincible. Its important for them to know this.

Because you made an insulting comment applying to all males. YOUR husband is an idiot but not all males are. My sons are not.

FWIW, I hope you don't have daughters either. People like you and your husband should not procreate.

You are really naive to think this couldn't happen to your children.

I never said that it couldn't happen to my children. I said my sons are not idiots.
Are you saying that everyone that has been hazed is an idiot? Nice victim blaming.

I’m saying the amount of alcohol intentionally consumed in a single evening is idiotic, yes. Good to know your sons are too smart for that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I refused to allow our students to get involved with the Greek houses at college. They wanted to because they crave the social life. But there is more terrible stuff beyond hazing and young people are vulnerable and lonely.

How can you refuse an adult to make a decision for them.

My DD currently at a state school in GA and in a sorority has NEVER been hazed.

Could your kid afford it without parental support? I think we paid something like 600 a year!

My kid worked her butt off to pay for her sorority. We actually communicate. I know for a fact she hasn’t been hazed.

Sororities are a magnet for mean girls. Just saying.

The DCUM is a magnet for anonymous trolls. She’ll be fine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this primarily a large school thing? I went to a very small school and really never heard anything like this going on.

How small is "very small?"

Here is a list of Hazing deaths--and these are just DEATHS, not every instance or even instances that ended in injury.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hazing_deaths_in_the_United_States

There are all kind of schools there--Big schools, small schools, public schools, private schools, Ivy league, HBUC....

3500 undergrads. And also I'm a girl. This list is almost entirely men. Men are idiots with terrible judgement.

There are schools about that size or smaller than that on the list (Wabash, Rider University-just off the top of my head.)

Yes, mostly men have died.

I hope you don't have any sons.

Why do you hope I don't have sons? My husband is a man (obviously) and tells me all the time what an idiot he was in college. They are way more likely to lack impulse control and engage in a mob-mentality behavior than girls are. They are also more likely to think they are invincible. Its important for them to know this.

Because you made an insulting comment applying to all males. YOUR husband is an idiot but not all males are. My sons are not.

FWIW, I hope you don't have daughters either. People like you and your husband should not procreate.

You are really naive to think this couldn't happen to your children.

I never said that it couldn't happen to my children. I said my sons are not idiots.
Are you saying that everyone that has been hazed is an idiot? Nice victim blaming.

I’m saying the amount of alcohol intentionally consumed in a single evening is idiotic, yes. Good to know your sons are too smart for that.

Not all of the hazing involves alcohol. See above messages regarding branding. There's also paddling, sleep depravation, intense physical exertion, sexual assault/humiliation, etc.

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It's a bonding experience and a right of passage without it , it's not anything to talk about to get in

[Anonymous]

My not very large college is on the list for a pledge hazing death that happened in the early 2000s. The student was in my accounting class. The fraternity was suspended and the chapter has not been permitted to activate again at the school. It’s been close to 20 years and I’m glad they’re still banned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I refused to allow our students to get involved with the Greek houses at college. They wanted to because they crave the social life. But there is more terrible stuff beyond hazing and young people are vulnerable and lonely.

How can you refuse an adult to make a decision for them.

My DD currently at a state school in GA and in a sorority has NEVER been hazed.

Lol, you are naive if u think she’s never been hazed

You are really naive if you think you know the policies on most campuses with regard to hazing.

She has NEVER been hazed!

I was in a sorority at a state school not that long ago and they were very strict about hazing. One fraternity lost their charter for making pledges march. Of course hazing happens but it's not all sororities/fraternities. The most I was forced to do during pledge season was memorize facts about our founders, learn songs and make lots of posters for the sisters.

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My kids were not interested in Greek life or being in a college where majority of the social life was around Greek life.

They knew of girls who were raped because they got very drunk or roofied in frat parties, and this happened in their college where Greek life was not very widespread. I think Greek life attracts a lot of deviants who prey on others.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I refused to allow our students to get involved with the Greek houses at college. They wanted to because they crave the social life. But there is more terrible stuff beyond hazing and young people are vulnerable and lonely.

How can you refuse an adult to make a decision for them.

My DD currently at a state school in GA and in a sorority has NEVER been hazed.

I'm not the pp you quoted, but you can refuse to pay your kid's tuition/expenses.

And you don't know that your daughter has "NEVER" been hazed. She's not going to tell you.

You may not realize this, but there are some kids that are paying for their own college by taking out loans and working to pay their expenses without parental say or involvement.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I refused to allow our students to get involved with the Greek houses at college. They wanted to because they crave the social life. But there is more terrible stuff beyond hazing and young people are vulnerable and lonely.

How can you refuse an adult to make a decision for them.

My DD currently at a state school in GA and in a sorority has NEVER been hazed.

I'm not the pp you quoted, but you can refuse to pay your kid's tuition/expenses.

And you don't know that your daughter has "NEVER" been hazed. She's not going to tell you.

You may not realize this, but there are some kids that are paying for their own college by taking out loans and working to pay their expenses without parental say or involvement.

I definitely realize it happens. I paid for my college myself. I don't think it's common on DCUM though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I refused to allow our students to get involved with the Greek houses at college. They wanted to because they crave the social life. But there is more terrible stuff beyond hazing and young people are vulnerable and lonely.

How can you refuse an adult to make a decision for them.

My DD currently at a state school in GA and in a sorority has NEVER been hazed.

I'm not the pp you quoted, but you can refuse to pay your kid's tuition/expenses.

And you don't know that your daughter has "NEVER" been hazed. She's not going to tell you.

You may not realize this, but there are some kids that are paying for their own college by taking out loans and working to pay their expenses without parental say or involvement.

I would like to see the stats of students in greek life who are paying for their own college and sorority/fraternity dues. I'm guessing that number is very, very low.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is why I refused to allow our students to get involved with the Greek houses at college. They wanted to because they crave the social life. But there is more terrible stuff beyond hazing and young people are vulnerable and lonely.

How can you refuse an adult to make a decision for them.

My DD currently at a state school in GA and in a sorority has NEVER been hazed.

There is not a snowball’s chance in Hades that that is true at a public university in Georgia. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why I refused to allow our students to get involved with the Greek houses at college. They wanted to because they crave the social life. But there is more terrible stuff beyond hazing and young people are vulnerable and lonely.

How can you refuse an adult to make a decision for them.

My DD currently at a state school in GA and in a sorority has NEVER been hazed.

There is not a snowball’s chance in Hades that that is true at a public university in Georgia. Sorry.

Please provide evidence that my DD was hazed.

I’ll be waiting.