Hazing types by group type.

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Originally Posted by Senusret I

Black people are brutes, white men are drunks, and white girls are mean girls.

Houston, we have stereotype...

Though in some ways, this perhaps makes it clearer. (Though in my original, it was more like "Black men are brutes, black women haven't yet hit a stereotype")

I've worked my way through the appendices of "Broken Pledges" by Hank Nuwer and "Black Haze: Violence, Sacrifice and Manhood in Black Greek-Letter Fraternities". "Black Haze"'s appendix gives full credit to "Broken Pledges" for being where his list started and there is a lot of overlap between the two.

For Black Haze, there are *two* of the fourty-seven hazing incidents listedioned that relate to Alcohol. There are actually the same number where fraternities are suspended due to gang-like confrontations between two or more fraternities. Most of them are non-alcohol physical abuse.

OTOH, in Broken Pledges, which covers a much wider range, the NIC hazing incidents seem to split about 50% Alcohol related, 40% "Animal House" hazing (covered in Peanut butter, with annoyed sheep, etc.) and 10% non-alcohol related physical abuse.

I'm not really sure for either how to count injury/death due to overexersion (500 jumping jacks in 90 degree weather) though.


In Broken pledges, the number of incidents involving sororities is very small (there are as many incidents involving non-sorority women: Eating clubs, military, etc. as sororities) and there doesn't appear to be any theme other than they aren't non-alcohol physical abuse.

I know there are more up to date sources, but this is a place to start...