There was a sorority that had forced their pledges to watch porn and pleasure themselves until they made a newspaper wet. Thankfully, they were kicked off campus in a hot second.

This I can agree with. Were I to find out that was going on here I'd call the police in a heartbeat.

I'm lucky to say I wasn't hazed at all. This stuff is awful sounding! I do know that a lot of fraternities and one sorority at my school do still haze, and most of the stories are just this bad.

The worst I hear of on my campus is making pledges clean the house or be DDs for actives, and that's just from the guys. Sororities here don't haze (or if they do, they are the queens of discretion). Which I'm glad of, not only because I dislike hazing but because it's another way in which our Greek system is laid back.

The worst I have ever heard is the fraternity pledge class had to raise a puppy through all of rush and keep the actives from getting to it. At the end of pledging, they had to kill the dog with the meaning of "b**ches come and go but bros last forever". This is a true story as there was a failed attempt and the dog was taken to a rescue shelter and is so messed up it goes crazy just at the sight of other males. Only women are allowed any contact with the dog.

Also I heard a story from just last year one of the fraternities had to drive 17 of their pledges all the state to have their staph infections taken care so the local hospital wouldn't put the connection together and get them in trouble

Some others are color sorting confetti across the floor in the dark with the opening of "Bad Romance" on repeat in the background

Forced to hold diet coke and a mentos in their mouth until they can't any longer and when they shoot it out it has to be on another pledge.

Forced drinking until everyone pukes

Blindfolded and driven to the middle of nowhere and having to find their way back to the house before sunrise

i did a lot of pushups, situps, and a bunch of other exercises. we had to clean the house everyday and run errands and such for the brothers. we weren't allowed in certain areas or to do certain things. we were basically on call 24 hours a day and even had the occasional dip in the swamp or river...never were we hazed in the company of anyone but brothers, and never were we ever hit or beaten. it may not have been right, but i don't think there was anyone who started that didn't know what they were getting into.

This is the single most horrifying hazing story I have ever heard in my life.

That was a terrible accident, result of negligence as hazing incidents often are

Heating up crab boil to the point that it causes third degree burns is NOT an "accident." Call it what it is and learn from mistakes. If a parent did this to a child and called it an accident, you'd still call it child abuse.

I heard a terrifying story just the other day and by chance saw this thread bumped. A friend told me about one of her hs friends who goes to another university in our area. She was pledging a sorority and dropped because the pledges were told they have to get to know their ls in and out by performing on each other.

^^^ Well, if a friend told that you it happened to a another friend at another school, then it must be true, especially since it explains why friend's friend dropped out. :rolleyes:

***Falling out.***

Sure they did. This Greek Rumor has been going around before my mama pledged.

LOL, well, I'm not going to say who this came from, but that person would not tell me if they didn't believe it themselves. I feel like although stories like this are probably not exactly true some variation probably is, otherwise why are people still talking about it? ;)

Originally Posted by victoriana
There was a sorority that had forced their pledges to watch porn and pleasure themselves until they made a newspaper wet. Thankfully, they were kicked off campus in a hot second.

Some of these are truly horrifying. I would NEVER participate in hazing.

Are you talking about the "truly horrifying" hazing or anything that could possibly be considered hazing depending on the audience?

Individual members and chapters have gotten in trouble at the school, organization, and legal levels for doing seemingly harmless things. For instance, one legacy who doesn't get an invitation for membership may move on with his/her life whereas another legacy may accuse the chapter of trying to intimidate her/him and unfair treatment. Thus, members and chapters can get in trouble for hazing even if the intent wasn't malicious and wasn't to haze.

Did I tell you about the time my cousin's friend was babysitting? She had put the kids to bed and was watching TV, and then the phone rang. She answered it and this guy just laughed kind of creepy and asked if she'd checked on the kids lately. She hung up on him, but he kept calling back, until finally she called the phone company. The operator said if he called back, to try to keep him talking so they could trace the call. He did call back and she tried to keep him talking, until all of a sudden the operator cut into the call and said "Get out of the house NOW! He's upstairs!" Turns out he had already killed the kids. :eek::eek::eek:


Please tell me you have more sense that to seriously wonder why people still talk about stories like this. Urban legends take on lives of their own.

^^^LOLOL!

I think your scenario is a little off base, but we cannot ignore the fact that many PNMs are willing to do whatever it takes to become a part of their preference organization. When we are talking about
-eating food off of the floor
-putting a banana in your vagina
-"get with" bros
-picking up an olive with your butt checks and walking across the room w/o dropping it and if you do you have to eat it! lol (this is from my bf's dad who is an alum of an IFC)
-laying in the snow in your underwear while the actives drip cold water on your forehead and ask you questions about info
And the list goes on. So IMO, I do not find it hard to believe that some active members take advantage of the willingness of PNM and push the limits. I also think that hazing breeds hazers. If I had to do this, the next line will have to do this and probable more, in order to prove themselves to me.

Has hazing happened and does it happen? Sure! Is some hazing that has happened and does happen disgusting? Sure!

But basically, you've repeated third-hand a hazing story that many of us know to be a Greek urban legend from way back, and you defend it with "although stories like this are probably not exactly true some variation probably is, otherwise why are people still talking about it?" (And that was the point of my scenario -- untrue stories that nevertheless get told in some form for decades. It happens all the time.)

Bottom line: If you don't have personal, first-hand knowledge of it, then you don't know whether it really happened, whether something happened that got mangled in the retelling, whether friend's friend used it as excuse (and as revenge) when when she was dropped by the sorority, whether urban legend was getting passed along, or whether . . . well, you get the idea.

:rolleyes:

It was a frat ay my college. They made the kid a bowl of alcoholic beverages ... (lets just call it that), duct taped it to his hands, and pushed him into a closet to take it all in. The kid also rarely drank alcohol, so he had a low tolerance.

The frat was suspended for two years, only now coming back.

Hazed & Confused
 

for crazy hazing stories check out this website [link removed]

Womp womp @ that site
Womp womp @ That spelling of "hazed"

hdzsd?

I hated getting hdzsd. It kind of hygt.

I hsdg thdt!!!!

Here are some funny ones instead -

For Hell Week, one fraternity would assign their pledges a role that they had to fulfill for the week, whenever they weren't in classes/at the house. These included -
-doing yoga on the lawn (in full yoga gear, with Enya on a boombox)
-playing golf on the lawn (again in full gear)
-being a gargoyle around campus (no moving allowed!)
-wearing an apron and hairnet and making PB&J sandwiches for anyone who walked by
-holding a [campus secret society] sign up booth (apparently some years, this pledge got terrorized by actual members of the secret society later)
- doing campus tours for an invisible tour (bonus points if he managed to poach prospective students & parents from the real tour).

Sadly, because these stunts were so public the university cracked down. Which I think actually hurt the no-hazing movement, since now the fraternity holds more traditional and disgusting Hell Week activities in the privacy of their house.

A friend is a new pledge. He had to sit in the trunk space of a car for four hours with 3 other brothers and they could not be visible above the windows. They had to drive 2 hours blindfolded to a nasty strip club.

Goldfish ...

That is all. And Swedish fish

No one has mentioned intentional mental hazing. It takes a toll on a chapter. :(

Initiated member(s), intentionally and continuously giving incorrect/unkind information to their own new members/pledges, can leave NM feeling left out, confused, unwanted. As examples:

Initiated Officer (I.O.) gives new members her incorrect phone number, stating she is "there for you always" but leaving a funny feeling in NM minds when they get the wrong person on the other end of the line (I.O. never does give out a corrected number).

I.O. tells NM to attend Derby Days at Lake Sunshine 2pm Saturday; in reality NM should have been at Sigma Chi parking lot for Derby Days @10am Saturday.

I.O. tells NM there are six beds opening for NM in the house Spring semester--deposit your rent checks now!--when in fact there are no such openings and the whole second floor of the house is being closed Spring semester for repairs to the roof/attic.

I.O., in a serious tone at a NM meeting, mentions someone in NM class is spreading rumors the Chapter President is a lesbian.

Due to this and many other unkind examples a NM class shrank by 40% over the course of a semester. COB the next semester brought a large class, with the same shrinkage result.

This sounds like the chapter was forced to bid members they didn't want to increase numbers and this was the only way to fight back against their national, their advisor or whoever was behind it. Obviously a sorority wasn't going to shoot themselves in the foot with ALL the new members (i.e. I'm sure the pledges that they actually wanted to be there were told the correct date and time for Derby Daze).