Hazing In College Essay

Hazing refers to the practice of rituals, challenges, and other activities involving harassment, abuse or humiliation used as a way of initiating a person into a group including a new fraternity, sorority, team, or club. (Wikipedia)

In other words, a pointless, disgusting, sometimes criminal act to degrade someone for personal gain.

The ritual of hazing has been present on college campuses for hundreds of years. In fact, there has been at least one documented hazing death a year since 1969.

Baylor University, a private Christian University in Waco, Texas has a history with hazing, one documented death dating back as early as 1967 when John Clifton was forced to drink a concoction of laxatives and garlic that eventually led to his death. Baylor is just one in the long list of

Reports recently have claimed that sexual assaults have been considered a "bonding experience" for the team. That speaks volumes of the character of those part of that "experience".

According to the Waco Tribune, stated in the seventh Title IX Lawsuit, the football team had a system of hazing freshman recruits by having them bring freshman females to parties to be drugged and gang-raped, "or in the words of the football players, 'trains' would be run on the girls."

Enough is enough. Lack of repercussion to the school, the players, and the program will lead to more and more heinous attacks. Whether a recruit is forced to drink until he loses consciousness or a student is sexually or physically assaulted, the students that are committing these acts need to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Whether those committing these acts are psychopaths, sociopaths, or just weak minded individuals, one thing is certain, they lack conscience and empathy for their fellow peers. People like that have no place living amongst those they could harm, they should be locked up, or at the very least punished for their