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Originally posted by BSUPhiSig'92
You would be amazed at how many colleges/universities look the other way at hazing on the athletic teams. When I first started as a Greek Advisor, my Vice-Chancellor of Student Affairs summoned me to his office for a meeting on hazing (this was right after the big MIT settlement). He asked me what I was doing with the Greeks in regards to hazing education/prevention, and I rattled off this list of things. The Athletic Director and Asst. Athletic Director were there and he asked them the same question. Their response? Oh, some hazing happens, but it isn't a problem. Four years later, I have yet to see anyone from athletics have to attend a hazing speaker, education program, anything... It is a huge double standard.
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And unfortunately, it will continue until they are smacked in the face with a real problem. The Alfred study done a couple of years ago confirms what you have seen.
Northern Colorado was the same way until 1994 when a baseball player broke his neck, and is now paralyzed from the neck down as a result of hazing (he was forced to slide down a muddy slope, and hit a rock or light pole - ironically just after the Denver Bronco's had left UNC from their training camp - it was in the same location).