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Old 03-17-2008, 11:35 PM
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Legalized Hazing

I got to thinking this evening.

What jobs and/or activities are supported by communities and governments that technically are hazing or in any other terms being placed in a greek life situation would be considered hazing.

-Personalized Trainer (this is where I got the idea from a fraternity brothers profile)

-Haunted tours/ hayrides

-Themed Amusement Parks

-Summer camps for overweight children to lose weight*

-Military school*

*interestingly enough most children are usually sent to these places against their will ... talk about brutal. There's a difference between choice and force.

Add any other activities/jobs or comments.
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Old 03-18-2008, 11:23 AM
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None of the examples you give are hazing, "technically" or otherwise, because they all lack an essential element of what constitutes hazing -- that the activity is being engaged in or endured in order to achieve initiation into an organization or maintain membership in that organization.
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Old 03-18-2008, 11:45 AM
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Basically being told to do anything
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Old 03-18-2008, 11:53 AM
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None of the examples you give are hazing, "technically" or otherwise, because they all lack an essential element of what constitutes hazing -- that the activity is being engaged in or endured in order to achieve initiation into an organization or maintain membership in that organization.
I'm sure the military would be interested to hear that.
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Old 03-18-2008, 12:26 PM
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I'm sure the military would be interested to hear that.
Only if you are reporting a case of hazing.
Hazing is also against Military Code of Conduct.
And yes, as with GLO's, it does happen.
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Old 03-18-2008, 01:07 PM
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I'm sure the military would be interested to hear that.
As jon notes, the military already understands hazing quite well, including the definition of what constitutes hazing. Whether it chooses to do anything about it may be a different question.

But in case it's what you're getting at, boot camp =/= hazing.
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Old 03-18-2008, 01:14 PM
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http://usmilitary.about.com/cs/marin...rinehazing.htm

Relevant articles are linked from this internet source.

Military hazing is classified and you won't see too much hazing story in the news. They deal with most of it internally. Many people feel that military hazing is par for the course and that it even trains people how to handle combat or the possibility of being a POW. This belief makes it difficult for military hazing activists to find a leg to stand on. Afterall, many hazing practices in GLOs and other places have military roots but people feel that military hazing isn't hazing regardless of the definition.
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Old 03-18-2008, 02:17 PM
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I have said it before and I will say it again.

Graduate School.

Also, when I think about gophers and interns, I think these types of jobs might constitute hazing too, by most definitions. Often, the gophers and interns are doing work, which is occasionally demeaning, for little or no pay with the hopes of obtaining a paid position in the future.

I think that constitutes "activity...engaged in or endured in order to achieve initiation into an organization or maintain membership in that organization," depending on how you define "organization."
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Old 03-18-2008, 02:21 PM
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I think that constitutes "activity...engaged in or endured in order to achieve initiation into an organization or maintain membership in that organization," depending on how you define "organization."
Sorry, but I don't. I think it constitutes work.
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Old 03-18-2008, 03:43 PM
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Sorry, but I don't. I think it constitutes work.
But what if they're not getting paid?
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Old 03-18-2008, 03:52 PM
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Sorry, but I don't. I think it constitutes work.
Exactly, by definition most of what most of us endure on a given day at work constitutes hazing according to these over-zealous definitions--especially if we are young in our careers.

Why should our organizations be forced to coddle people under threat of law suit, when our bosses get away with hazing us every day.
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Old 03-18-2008, 03:57 PM
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Employees get paid and do have labor law protection, so if someone is truly getting "hazed" at work, it would likely fall under some kind of harassment law and you would have remedies.

Getting bossed around at your job where you get paid (or experience/references for your resume) or training to handle the high-stress duties and risks of being a soldier (who also gets paid) are completely unlike a fraternity or sorority hazing situation.

Last I checked, GLO members didn't draw salaries or have protection under labor laws and the Chis didn't need to prepare for mortal combat against the Upsilons. (names made up to protect the nonexistent)
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Old 03-18-2008, 04:02 PM
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The military is one big haze session.

How else you going to get someone pissed off enough to do the things they do? i have so much respect for the military putting up with all the crap they do, its fraternity hazing x 20... except they call it "getting smoked"
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Old 03-18-2008, 04:29 PM
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Exactly, by definition most of what most of us endure on a given day at work constitutes hazing according to these over-zealous definitions.
No, it doesn't -- not according to any actual definition of hazing I have ever seen (as opposed to rampant popular misconception about what constitutes hazing) -- and it's just plain silly to claim otherwise.
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Old 03-18-2008, 04:31 PM
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Employees get paid and do have labor law protection, so if someone is truly getting "hazed" at work, it would likely fall under some kind of harassment law and you would have remedies.

Getting bossed around at your job where you get paid (or experience/references for your resume) or training to handle the high-stress duties and risks of being a soldier (who also gets paid) are completely unlike a fraternity or sorority hazing situation.

Last I checked, GLO members didn't draw salaries or have protection under labor laws and the Chis didn't need to prepare for mortal combat against the Upsilons. (names made up to protect the nonexistent)
I was mostly talking about the over-zealous definitions of hazing that prevent things like scavenger hunts. Of course I am not referring to anything that might cause physical or permanent emotional harm. But regulations designed to prevent pledges from becoming "stressed out" seem a bit over the top to me.

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No, it doesn't -- not according to any actual definition of hazing I have ever seen (as opposed to rampant popular misconception about what constitutes hazing) -- and it's just plain silly to claim otherwise.
And those are the definitions that I am talking about, i.e. over-zealous; definitions which some organizations seem to be governed by.
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