Hazing Rituals and YOU.

[Zilla]

I've seen the college movies and read the college books, but here I am at a small but very renowned school with no hazing. Awesome, isn't it?

But what am I missing out on?

I've heard of locking people in closets for days on end with nothing but a cup so they can drink their own urine. I've heard of some ritual involving carrying a pickle with a sphincter a certain distance to prove your worth. I've heard of many forms of humiliation and degredation, none of which I will bear witness to.

What have you heard/seen/had to go through/made someone else go through, college, high school, or otherwise?Made mostly because I thought the other topic had potential

[Mirai Gen]

Pickle ritual was from Clerks 2, I'd imagine. But it's actually pretty accurate from what I've heard.

I was in a small enough school this kind of casually abusive violence didn't get spread around. Which is probably for the best as in high school I was pretty spineless.

[Doppler12]

Oddly, at Ohio State Hazing was stuff like playing beer pong with a attractive naked woman on your team, and occasionally having to stay up all night parting. Now a friend of mine visited a Brother Frat in another state. Apparently Hazing is huge because the frats and soroities are the only way to socalize so they can get away with treating like shit, where as OSU there's plenty of other students and the school itsself provides ways to socialize.

There was this one sorority, which was a brothel. They aren't there anymore. Suspened for like 5 years.

[russianreversal]

Originally Posted by Doppler12

Oddly, at Ohio State Hazing was stuff like playing beer pong with a attractive naked woman on your team, and occasionally having to stay up all night parting.

Yeah, I've seen that before. Usually, there's not as much hazing and a lot more drunk "Cornholeing," which is just Ohio's name for the beanbag toss. But it's very serious here. Like football.

Had a friend who had to hop a train naked. Now that was a sight to behold.

[Zilla]

Heh, so, all in all, it's quite overblown? Or is it just that types like us avoid this stuff?

[MasterOfMagic]

I've heard stories from my brother. Some of his was silly stuff, like driving for hours up to Cincinnati to buy a senior member cigarettes.

The others were things you'd expect. Running naked through campus, something involving a really cold river and swimming, etc. They generally stayed away from the truly humiliating stuff though, and just had fun.

[Nikose Tyris]

certain types miss out by choice.

Rolling peanuts down a hallway with your nose while getting paddled is always cool.

Did I mention the hallway in question is the longest one in the school?

[batgirl]

Let's see:

I've heard of sorority girls having to stand naked while the other sisters would mark up their "fat parts" with sharpies.

My ex roommate had to walk dogs, wash cars and cook. Also, she was locked out of her room for a week without a change of clothes or showering. She slept at a friend's house or in the library and I snuck her clothes.

Fraternity guys would have to walk in complete strait lines only make 90 degree turns with perpetual scowls on their faces.

Kegs stands until you pass out.

My experience with "hazing" was extremely tame. I had to perform "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey (our team song) in front of the team with the other rookies. Then I had to keep refilling the team's cups and I also had to wear a large blue clip with blue sparkly hair on it in my hair the entire night. Oh, and I wore a white t-shirt that everyone marked up, but that was more the theme for the whole party, not just for the rookies.

[bluestarultor]

I had to run all over central St. Louis at night in hot, humid weather to collect cards based on the clues from the previous one. Except that was technically school-sanctioned, being part of Seminar. But I didn't see a single teacher or administrator the entire day, so it largely felt like the upperclassmen were the ones having me do it. Actually, it was pretty fun. Tiring and incredibly sweaty (had to actually hang my clothes to dry), but fun.

[Lumenskir]

Hazing and ME, as in personally? Not at all, once you realize that the main benefits of being in a frat (party and free booze every weekend) can be easily obtained just by knowing someone stupid enough to actually go through with it.

BUT, I have heard varied stories from said friends. There's the pussy stuff (saying the Greek alphabet while holding a burning match upside down), the brainier pussy stuff (having a checklist of pictures to obtain, mostly involving some variation of "get naked sorority sister to have our letters on her somehow"), the dumbass stuff (making pledges drink straight bottles of vodka and raw eggs until they puke), the uncomfortably gay dumbass stuff (the pickle thing you've heard of, although at our school I've heard it's a cold hotdog), the whispered rumored shit (I've heard from multiple sources that some of the frats actually require you to get branded, and I've seen guys on campus with raised (possibly branded(?)) skin, but it's mostly hearsay), and then there was an article in our paper about how one frat's institution of punching pledges in the heart while they drank resulted in a nominally healthy 20-something having a heart attack, so it can go overboard.

Basically the gamut, although the few sorority girls I know are either tight lipped or just don't have any stories. I'm pretty sure that any school is allowed to call themselves a 'No-Hazing Environment' or whatever as long as the hazing is adequately covered up, so dig around if you want to see the real underbelly of your alma mater.

I had to run all over central St. Louis at night in hot, humid weather to collect cards based on the clues from the previous one. Except that was technically school-sanctioned, being part of Seminar. But I didn't see a single teacher or administrator the entire day, so it largely felt like the upperclassmen were the ones having me do it. Actually, it was pretty fun. Tiring and incredibly sweaty (had to actually hang my clothes to dry), but fun.

I'm going to be honest, this sounds like a "Get to know your area" funsercise, which might be on the complete opposite spectrum of hazing. Well, it's either the extreme other end, or it's right next to that "say three things, one of them false" bullshit teachers do on the first day of classes after giving out the syllabus.