Pre colligeate hazing

[Adelphean1851]

My freshman year of high school, I joined the drama club, at that time, my HIGH SCHOOL had an offically sanctioned "initation day" this day was the equivilent of a "hell week" in one day. All the student orgainzations on campus participated . During this event I was dressed up in mismatched clothes with bathing suit bottoms on outside of my shorts, I was made to carry a sign that said I belong to the drama club, and told to carry an egg around with me all day ( we were told that they were raw, but they had been hard boiled) Also, any member of my club could tell me what to do and I had to do it ie. roll my egg around the ground with my nose. I think the worst part was that my "big sis" (the one responsible for dressing me up) had put my hair up in a ponytail and knotted it up then she took hair sheen for black hair and put big globs of it all over. When I got home that day I tried to rinse it out of my baby fine white girl hair. I ended up with a big greasy mess and the knots were set into my hair, my haidresser had to wash my hair with baking soda and cut the knots out so i ended up loosing about 2 inches. I got a big apology from the drama club president the next day but apologys don't grow hair. After my freshman year "initation day" became "initation peroid" and finally I think the adminstration realized that they were playing with fire and got rid of it all together. Anyway I know compared to what some of these groups have been doing to people what I endured was minor but I find it a little disturbing in retrospect that this "tradition" was actually condoned my our administratiors for many years. There are pictures in the year book. In fact wouldn't something like this encorage hazing later in life say when joining a fraternity or sorority? Has anyone else expirenced anything like this?