"Hazing" Incidnet
A little background information: the University of Toldeo has a small close knit greek community. The greek village houses seven sororities and seven fraternities.
On Sunday November 16, 2003 the university police were called to the greek village on an alleged hazing incident. The incident occured after a member of one fraternity have lavileared or given his letters to his girlfriend. After meeting on Sunday he was captured by his brothers and saran wrapped to a tree while they threw various food items at him. Members from an opposing fraternity saw the incident occured and notifed the police calling the event "hazing."
This is not an uncommon occurance within our greek system it is a tradtion. All fraternities except the reporting one participate in this ritual. Usually village residents come out and watch. The complete tradition includes capturing of the brother, having him change into gym shorts and providing him with goggles before the saran wrapping occurs. The girlfriend is also present during the event and according to tradition she must kiss him before she can cut him away from the tree. These little ceremonies never last more than a half hour and only occur during warm weather.
The university judicial officer ruled the incident to not be hazing because the brother was an active memeber for his fraternity and voluntarily particiapted. A secondary factor included was the fraternity reporting the incident had lost a hotly contested intermural sports event earlier in the day to the fraternity the called the police on.
My question is if similar rituals occur at other schools?? Do you belive this to be hazing? Why or why not?
Just looking for a little prespective, thanks in adavnce for anyones input!
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