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Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
I am looking at it from one group beating up another.
If this was the Cheerleading squad (for example) and juniors cheerleaders were made to come out for the powderpuff game and get beat up, then I could see were this example could be classified as hazing. But this was just "random" seniors inviting juniors to beat them up.
I guess some people are looking at this at the fact the "organization" that both groups (juniors and seniors) belonged to was the high school.
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At my high school we had a "freshman initiation week" where we had activities that could be construed as hazing depending on where you are from. We were made to push soda cans across the cafeteria floor with our noses, sing songs and dress up in costumes given to us by our senior "big sis". I went to an all girls catholic high school and if you didn't participate in the I-week activities you were looked down on. Most of the girls who refused to particpate ended up transferring before the end of the first semester.
Are you telling me this isn't hazing? The only group that we all belonged to was my high school, and yes this was a 99% white school in an affluent suburb. We didn't video tape what went on and what happened was no where close to what happened to those girls but in the same way there was after school activities that involved drinking and other risk management nightmares. If there had been video involved, trust me it would have made it on to the nightly news.
At our brother school the soccer team would duct tape their freshmen to the goal posts on the football field naked and kick soccer balls at them. They made the mistake of video taping this and the tape was leaked. That did make it on to the news. Now maybe because this was a sports team it was hazing and what I went through as a freshman wasn't. To me it sure felt like hazing when I was forced to push a soda can across the cafeteria floor with my nose while wearing a hat that had all kinds of things stuck to it and signs around my neck saying "I love seniors".
Jess
P.S. to those who say that those who were hazed are the ones who are generally the worst didn't meet my HS graduating class...when we were seniors we changed I-Week to just in-school activities that consisted of each day dressing a theme. We also participated to bond the two classes. We took a lot of flack from the sophomore and junior classes for our decision but we didn't want these freshmen humiliated like we were.