Cimino called hazing "fundamentally coercive," and said it can cause hazees to eventually submit to behavior they wouldn't normally be on board with. Exacerbating the situation, he added, is the fact that hazing often entails sleep deprivation or excessive drinking, further diminishing hazees' inhibitions.
That's when pledges start relenting and doing things outside their comfort zones, he said. People make poor decisions when they are sleep-deprived. All of these things impact your ability to make good decisions. Excessive drinking played a role in the circumstances surrounding the death of Piazza, the Penn State student who was made to participate in a drinking game called "the gauntlet.
Hazing's dangerous drinking gauntlet As part of the gauntlet, pledges had to pass a handle of vodka between each other until it was empty before drinking a beer, running upstairs, chugging from a bag of wine and going back downstairs for beer pong. Fortunately for Schlank, he wasn't made to drink against his will. He would often be woken in the middle of the night with his fellow pledges to roam the campus, painting rocks, even if they had classes early the next day. And while Schlank was never forced to drink, he said he did attend events where that was the expectation, and says he was made to feel like "the weird one" when he chose not to.
At a certain point, even if pledges are uncomfortable with what they've seen or experienced, it feels too late to back out.
Nuwer calls it a "bait and switch" affair. Peer pressure makes it hard to back out. Despite his growing concerns, Schlank continued to rush Alpha Epsilon Pi and was eventually made a full member, though he made his distaste for hazing known to his chapter brothers, he said. Although he couldn't be kicked out of the organization for that, he said some of his fraternity brothers ostracized him, and made him feel like an outcast. Schlank would walk into a room full of brothers, and no one would acknowledge him.
One semester, when he protested hazing new pledges, Schlank said a brother told him, "You are a cancer to this organization. What to know before pledging a fraternity or sorority. It was the consequence pledges and members fear most. Your whole life is impacted by it. Lipkins said Schlank's experience is typical of those who speak out against hazing.
Although Schlank never reported allegations of hazing to Alpha Epsilon Pi, the fraternity's national spokesman Jonathan Pierce, told CNN it takes "any and all reports of hazing at our chapters very seriously and we look into each.
UConn said it was unable to address Schlank's experience, citing laws preventing it from commenting on individual students. Still, the school expressed a "zero tolerance policy" to hazing.
It also conducts mandatory hazing prevention programs for members of Greek life. Burch told her fellow pledges several times that she wanted to quit. But they would encourage her to stay, to talk to other people in the sorority who said the end result would be worth it.
Leader three, the hill. I'm in a movie with a bad script, scared, afraid of stumbling, worried about what lies ahead. Voices from the other two groups trail off.
Finally, our leader speaks. This is station two, the creek. Johnson, you're first. Then silence. Glad I'm not first. The actives have formed two lines. You crawl between them down a bank into a shallow creek, then turn around and crawl back. Any questions? Amid the actives shouting, I hear whacks. Johnson yells, "Ouch.
They curse louder. Johnson moans, then splashes into the water. The yelling turns to laughter. But he can't. A quiet guy in my math class and chem lab who had a hard week. I don't see him as a fraternity type.
The moans get louder, from both Johnson and Franklin. My heart thumps. Someone pushes me forward. You know the rules: down the bank, into the water, then back. Ready, crawl. I drop to my knees and edge forward. Shoes on each side kick at me.
A quitter. I concentrate on balance. Someone whips my butt, hard. Feels like rope. Later I learn it's a length of garden hose. Stings like hell. I yelp. They holler louder. I scramble downward, bumping through knees and feet. My palms feel every rock and root. The whips come faster. I smell beer on his breath when someone leans close to taunt me. I can't help whining. According to a Medium article , it started as a way for sophomores to needle freshmen and has grown more intense and more alcohol related in the last 50 years.
It can be soon. An anti-hazing bill could gain more traction following Foltz's death according to The Columbus Dispatch. A new version of Collin's Law, named after hazing victim Collin Wiant , a freshman at Ohio University, could soon be revealed. Since , more than 40 hazing deaths have been reported according to the Economist. Alcohol poising is the leading cause for these deaths. Aside from legislation that has passed to make hazing illegal and severe punishment universities can subject Greek organizations and guilty members to because of hazing, there are other ways to prevent it.
As a result, the environments where hazing most often occurs — student clubs, organizations, and teams — are living-learning laboratories for leadership development. If hazing is happening in these groups, then our leaders-in-training may be learning that humiliating, harassing, or violent behavior is an accepted or expected way to induct new members and build cohesion — stophazing. Yes, there are laws against hazing depending on what state the hazing occurred in.
Currently, there are 44 states that have laws against hazing while 6 do not. However, the laws vary from state to state and hazing charges can range from a misdemeanor to a felony.
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