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Have you ever wanted to be apart of something so badly you would go through pain or humiliation to be accepted? The Detroit Gale Group states, “Hazing is any activity that humiliates, degrades, abuses, or endangers them Regardless of their willingness to participate”(1). Hazing is an illegal process that is used very widely among Greek groups of colleges and even among high school clubs and teams. The awareness of hazing has raised dramatically in the past few years due to many hazing prevention organizations.

Even though someone who is supervising the hazing has no real control over the subject. They are reluctant to resist, many victims deny being hazed at all. Some students feel as though the hazing is a necessary initiation and don’t mind going through it (Detroit Gale Group 1).The harshness of the hazing may depend on social, economic, ethnic, or gender lines. Subjects who endure hazing may have been bullied or outcast during previous times and may feel as if they can only be accepted through hazing. Threats, causation of psychological stress, and endangering someones mental or physical health also constitutes as hazing.

The long term effects of hazing can be mental as well as physical many people have life long scars and memories. Many overseers of hazing that takes place were once hazed themselves and therefore feel no guilt in making others do it as well (Reitman 53). Some do feel guilt and often come clean to try and rid their conscience. Most cases that end with death bring a change in the person in charge of all the hazings. Although, some still say they never took part, or that what they did wasn’t hazing (Hawkes 1). Karen Hawkes said, “the remorse they feel does not bring back that child, and it does not stop his...

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"Florida: Sentencing in Band Hazing Death." New York Times, 28 Mar. 2014, sec. National Briefing: n. pag. Print.

Hawkes, Karen. "Bystander Behavior." . HazingPrevention.org, 2011. Web. 9 May. 2014. .

"Hazing." . Gale Student Resources in Context, 2011. Web. 13 May 2014. .

Reitman, Janet. "Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy." Rolling Stone 1 Jan. 2014: 45-53. Print.
"Stop Hazing ." . Texas A&M University, 1 Jan. 2014. Web. 13 May 2014. .

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