Hazing, almost accepted in the south?

[SigsAreGreat]

I attend an unnamed university in Colorado, and hazing does occur on our campus throughout many of the fraternities, some more then others.

But one of my good friends attending Alabama university pledging with one of there fraternities with the most hazing, told me some shocking things.

For instance, one night involved all 37 pledges getting pumpkin shoved on their heads, with a little hole in the top of it. Next the actives would then begin to pour liquids down, such as water, then juice. Which bad enough, gets worse. Next Tabasco sauce was poured down the pumpkin, burning the nostrils and eyes of all the pledges. Finally vomit was poured down these pumpkins, covering the pledges faces, aside from being disgusting and absurd the pledges had a hard time breathing through the pumpkin.

And although from reading many of the threads on this site, it seems most of this audience is not exposed or does not accept hazing. But I speak these words of in complete truth. This is a good friend of mine, and he would not even tell me this at first. He has told me other stories, that I do not want to tell, because I told him I wouldn't tell anyone.

The reason why I start this thread because he said that hazing occurs all throughout his campus, some more physical, such as the Dekes (DKE) who hospitalized a kid within the past year. And I am confused as to how hazing in the south is so much more intense and accepted?