What types of hazing Do sororities do?
Some Examples
- Forced or coerced alcohol or other drug consumption.
- Beating, paddling, or other forms of assault.
- Branding.
- Forced or coerced ingestion of vile substances or concoctions.
- Burning.
- Water intoxication.
- Expecting abuse or mistreatment of animals.
- Public nudity.
What is an example of a hazing activity?
Examples of Hazing Activities. Requiring any form of physically demanding activity (e.g. calisthenics, sit-ups, push up, or runs). Forcing, requiring, or endorsing consumption of alcoholic beverages or other drugs.
What does hazing look like?
Involves humiliation of an individual or group. Involves ridicule of an individual or group. Involves or includes the willful destruction or removal of public or private property for the purpose of initiation or admission into, affiliation with, or as a condition for continued membership in an organization.
How do I get through hazing?
What You Can Do
- Stay connected with friends outside of the group.
- Talk with others about what you are going through.
- Seek guidance from your parents/guardian or other family member.
- Refuse to participate.
- Join together with other new members to refuse to be hazed.
- Leave the group.
What should I do after hazing?
What to do if you are being hazed
- Stay connected with friends outside of the group.
- Talk with others about what you are going through.
- Seek guidance from your parents/guardian, other family members, trusted friends, or university officials.
- Refuse to participate.
How do you tell if you are being hazed?
How to Identify Hazing
- Appearance of physical exhaustion from multiple sit ups, exercise sessions, running, or other calisthenics.
- Appearance of mental exhaustion or withdrawal from normal lifestyle; change in personality.
- Withdrawal from normal activities or friends.
- Appearance of sadness or expressions of loneliness.
Can you refuse hazing?
Hazing is still going on in a great many fraternities around the country. The only way to stop hazing tragedies is for the pledges to refuse to take part in any activity they consider hazardous.
Do bigs give Littles paddles?
Sorority paddles are gifts in Greek Life that littles give their bigs or bigs give their littles as a sign of their bond and sisterhood within the sorority. Sometimes the paddle has a theme that links the sisters – something they have in common besides the sorority. Other times they’re just made to be…