National Hazing Prevention Week (9/19-9/23)

[SOM]

With National Hazing Prevention Week underway (9/19-9/23), we are writing to thank you for your commitment to eliminating hazing and to ask for your continued participation in this effort.
Our research indicates that as many as 55% of students who are involved in campus clubs, organizations, or teams, have been hazed. As you know, hazing can be hazardous, physically abusive, sexually violating, and even deadly. Lack of awareness and understanding about hazing and its causes remains pervasive and is a major impediment to the development of effective prevention strategies. Last year, we released The National Agenda for Hazing Prevention in Education (see attached).
http://www.hazingstudy.org/

[DrPhil]

The definition that they use:

Originally Posted by the report

Hazing is any activity expected of someone joining or participating in a group that humiliates, degrades, abuses, or endangers them regardless of a person’s willingness to participate.

Hazing will always be an issue because what some consider hazing others consider a necessary or harmless rite of passage. Hazing is not to be confused with activities or actions that people simply disagree with or don't want to participate in. Hazing is not to be confused with activities or actions that outsiders to the organization deem hazing because they don't understand the organization.

And hazing is hazing regardless of whether it is done for a sports team, a GLO, a campus organization, a group of friends, or the military. Yes, military men and women do not have to endure everysinglething that they endure. There are some things done that are not about learning how to protect and serve.

[Ch2tf]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Hazing will always be an issue because what some consider hazing others consider a necessary or harmless rite of passage. Hazing is not to be confused with activities or actions that people simply disagree with or don't want to participate in.

Add to that the intentionally broad definitions drafted as a "cover your ass" measure.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Ch2tf

Add to that the intentionally broad definitions drafted as a "cover your ass" measure.

I agree. I also found this interesting:

http://www.hazingstudy.org/sponsors/index.php