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Originally posted by James
Sugar & Spice, I think you are right about a lot of the alcohol poisoning deaths being involved with events considered "hazing", I just don't like to call some of those events hazing because I think its a little misleading.
I think what happens is that a lot of times you have a bid party or some other type of event and you get people going into macho shot-drinking mode.
Like have a shot with every active brother. Or like when people turn 21 and they are supposed to do a shot for every year they have been alive. . .
I think in these cases no one is actually trying to haze or hurt per se, they are not thinking about the possibilities of extreme consequences. Because they do it every year and no one ever dies . . . until one does.
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I agree that a lot of the drinking things that are called "hazing" are no more hazing than the man in the moon. The pledges want to drink, but if an active gave them the shot or didn't tell them to stop, it gets called hazing.
Believe me...I NEVER saw a pledge drink who didn't want to. We were poor...we sure as hell weren't going to give alcohol to people who didn't want it. I'm not saying it never happens, but some of these kids are deified and made into these naive drinking virgins when in actuality they've probably been drinking heavily since they were 14 or so.