Anonymous
Post 10/30/2025 08:54     Subject: Indiana U Hazing - two kids in hospital for a week
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Some of these “hazing” incidents need to start getting treated like crimes, such as assault and battery. It’s nothing more than a form of abuse and should not be tolerated!


Both sides need to be punished/expelled. Pledges have every opportunity to refuse and report extreme hazing. No sympathy for those that go along with this and they're not victims.


This is true. Also, if someone witnesses hazing and doesn’t report it, there should be real consequences—like suspension or expulsion from school. It makes no sense that actions tolerated inside a fraternity (or soriority) would lead to punishment anywhere else.
Anonymous
Post 10/30/2025 00:46     Subject: Indiana U Hazing - two kids in hospital for a week
Anonymous wrote:Some of these “hazing” incidents need to start getting treated like crimes, such as assault and battery. It’s nothing more than a form of abuse and should not be tolerated!


Both sides need to be punished/expelled. Pledges have every opportunity to refuse and report extreme hazing. No sympathy for those that go along with this and they're not victims.
Anonymous
Post 10/30/2025 00:20     Subject: Indiana U Hazing - two kids in hospital for a week
Anonymous wrote:Kids at my DC's school have to go through an anti-hazing seminar before getting involved in greek life or if they are part of sports. I was suprised to hear things like wearing matching outfits or scavenger hunts are considered hazing now. I'm sure some of the hunts weren't meant to be fun, so I can imagine how that happens. My DC does plan on rushing 2nd semester and I have mixed feelings. DC isn't a big partier, but is interested in other aspects of sororities.


All schools have that anti-hazing seminar. It doesn't stop the frats from doing it though.
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2025 23:24     Subject: Indiana U Hazing - two kids in hospital for a week
Anonymous wrote:There are so many posts on here saying that hazing is fake and doesn't happen anymore. Nope, not true. It's alive and well, unlike some of the people who participate.


Yup, and just a week or two ago, a Rutgers frat house was expelled and issued a cease and desist for hazing that left a pledge hospitalized in critical condition. He was waterboarded; a live electrical wire came into contact with the water and he was electrocuted. Kid was in a coma.
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2025 23:02     Subject: Indiana U Hazing - two kids in hospital for a week
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:People get injured or die in car accidents ... how is driving still popular?

That’s like a pretty dumb comparison. One is a necessity for most people. The other is an option. I don’t get the appeal of joining the Greek system, but if it’s going to be a thing-why does hazing have to be a part of it?


It’s a ritual that creates bonding amongst humans. Societies have done this since humans first evolved. Unfortunately, some humans are not good at knowing what’s an appropriate ritual bonding and what’s not.


Ritual bonding and hazing are two very different things.
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2025 22:52     Subject: Indiana U Hazing - two kids in hospital for a week
Kids at my DC's school have to go through an anti-hazing seminar before getting involved in greek life or if they are part of sports. I was suprised to hear things like wearing matching outfits or scavenger hunts are considered hazing now. I'm sure some of the hunts weren't meant to be fun, so I can imagine how that happens. My DC does plan on rushing 2nd semester and I have mixed feelings. DC isn't a big partier, but is interested in other aspects of sororities.
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2025 18:36     Subject: Indiana U Hazing - two kids in hospital for a week
There are so many posts on here saying that hazing is fake and doesn't happen anymore. Nope, not true. It's alive and well, unlike some of the people who participate.
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2025 18:14     Subject: Indiana U Hazing - two kids in hospital for a week
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:People get injured or die in car accidents ... how is driving still popular?

That’s like a pretty dumb comparison. One is a necessity for most people. The other is an option. I don’t get the appeal of joining the Greek system, but if it’s going to be a thing-why does hazing have to be a part of it?


It’s a ritual that creates bonding amongst humans. Societies have done this since humans first evolved. Unfortunately, some humans are not good at knowing what’s an appropriate ritual bonding and what’s not.


It is not about bonding! It is about power and forcing someone to abandon their own judgment and morals to the group. This in turn gives the group power. It emboldens the group to commit other crimes, infractions, etc because they have the protection of the group.
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2025 17:02     Subject: Indiana U Hazing - two kids in hospital for a week
AEPi got kicked out of another B10 campus last year, but they are still definitely operating and have a pledge class. I thought cease and desist meant they couldn't recruit or hold functions.
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2025 16:47     Subject: Indiana U Hazing - two kids in hospital for a week
Anonymous wrote:Awful, just awful. And fully avoidable. Hazing isn't an accident, it's intentional abuse. We need to stop putting up with or making excuses for it or comparing it to benign non-criminal things like driving to get from home to work as one other PP did.

Hazing is criminal assault and abuse and all who turn a blind eye should be prosecuted.


+1
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2025 15:55     Subject: Indiana U Hazing - two kids in hospital for a week
Anonymous wrote:So why do these so-called Gods stand silently on the sidelines like little boys while the hazing goes on? Seems like something Gods would be able to eradicate … yet here we are…

It makes me think of that Jodie Foster movie. In any other context, it would be condemned. And can't you be gods on campus without these rituals?
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2025 15:27     Subject: Indiana U Hazing - two kids in hospital for a week
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:People get injured or die in car accidents ... how is driving still popular?

That’s like a pretty dumb comparison. One is a necessity for most people. The other is an option. I don’t get the appeal of joining the Greek system, but if it’s going to be a thing-why does hazing have to be a part of it?

Riding motorcycles. Skiing. Boating.


Age restrictions. Helmets. life jackets. Safety rules.
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2025 15:20     Subject: Indiana U Hazing - two kids in hospital for a week
Why do men need to torture each other to feel bonded? Is that trauma bonding?

So weird!
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2025 15:17     Subject: Indiana U Hazing - two kids in hospital for a week
Awful, just awful. And fully avoidable. Hazing isn't an accident, it's intentional abuse. We need to stop putting up with or making excuses for it or comparing it to benign non-criminal things like driving to get from home to work as one other PP did.

Hazing is criminal assault and abuse and all who turn a blind eye should be prosecuted.
Anonymous
Post 10/29/2025 15:13     Subject: Indiana U Hazing - two kids in hospital for a week
So why do these so-called Gods stand silently on the sidelines like little boys while the hazing goes on? Seems like something Gods would be able to eradicate … yet here we are…