Hazing creates a sense of unity

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Texan85

Second to that I have been told hazing comes from post WWII and the marines and soldiers coming back on the GI Bill, so I think its starting to take root in the new milenium that it is just an archaic practice.

That certainly contributed to a new rise in hazing, but hazing has been around a lot longer than that.

[Tom Earp]

I beleive hazing was in practice from the inseption of GLOs and is not based on the men/women who returned from WWII. They had seen enough hurt/blood shed and I am sure were not up to having to be hazed by a group of kids who did not fight in this war.

I know that at the two schools I attended, the men on GI Bill help build dorms at one school and the stadium at the other one. Doesn't sound like hazing would come from them.

When West Point was founded, the new plebes had to ride cannon barrels with a team of horses running with the cassions.

Beating, making a new member drink in excess is a way to make a stronger member of any GLO would steer me away from them.

I do not think I would find any glee in those or any other forms of degredation appealing.