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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did you speak up when your D1 school allowed the funny rituals?  Are you overcompensating now?[/quote]

I'll give you a serious answer.  As an 18-year old freshmen I participated eagerly -- I thought it was cool to be "initiated."  As a senior, I used my influence as a captain to eliminate the scary drinking element, so I feel okay about my "past," actually.  My larger point, though, is that the willingness of high school and college kids to participate (most or many eagerly) is part of the reasons adults do need to take these things seriously and step in.  There were a lot of things I did in college that, praise the lord, didn't result in the terrible consequences they could have, and I wouldn't do now with the benefit of 25 years of hindsight.  But I also know people who did things in college (usually involving drinking) -- that did result in terrible consequences, to themselves or others (date rape; car accident; broken neck from diving while drunk into shallow water).

In my view, I'm not overcompensating, and I'm not being alarmist or trying to single out any one school in responding to some posts on a relatively old thread.  But hazing (or the milder initiation rituals) is not a silly subject and to argue that schools and coaches should use their very great influence to help kids make good decisions on this subject seems to me a pretty reasonable place to come down.[/quote]

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