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4. any activity that intimidates or threatens the student with
ostracism that subjects the student to extreme mental stress,
shame, or humiliation, or that adversely effects the student
from entering or remaining registered in an educational
institution, or that may reasonably be expected to cause a
student to leave the organization or the institution rather
than submit to acts described in this subsection;
That's TEXAS law.
Telling someone that if they don't eat off the floor they'll be shown the door? Yup, hazing. Yup, illegal.
Fight me all you want on this, my point is that IT IS ILLEGAL TO FORCE SOMEONE TO EAT OFF THE FLOOR. No matter how clean it is. It could be a floor cleaned by an act of God. It could be a hospital floor. It's still illegal.
ETA: I'd go so far as to say that it takes a real man to stop hazing. You can still be "manly men" while creating an environment that benifits all the individuals of that group. Hazing, in my eyes, is like children who have to make someone less than them so they can feel bigger about themselves.
Last edited by agzg; 08-03-2006 at 01:14 PM.
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