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Hazing in Sports and College “Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.” -Ralph Ellison, on initiations at West Point, 1969. Hazing in sports and in college can be good and bad. If they are taken to far and people have to break laws of be beaten or sustain major physical injuries then it would be good to have …show more content…

Different state but also was same sport. “Kent State University (Ohio) Hockey The hockey season was canceled after 12 players were charged with violating various hazing and drinking laws during an off-campus initiation party that resulted in the shaving of heads and bodies of the students involved. One rookie nearly died after veterans coerced him to chug liquor and beer through a bong device.” (ESPN.com - OTL: Sports Hazing Incidents. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 May 2017.) Another example of how something that seems harmless can turn out to be life threatening and can ruin an entire sports season. Not only for you and your group of friends, but for your entire school. Not all reports of hazing are bad. For example if someone was in college and wanted to join a Frat (or a sports team), but they had to be initiated first. They join and realise that all the initiation was was having a bucket of ice water dumped on you the first morning. Hazing can come in many forms ranging from mild hazing to violent. The example above would fall under the category of mild hazing. While if the initiation was to break one’s own finger naked in public it would be violent hazing. Hazing can be good or bad, safe or dangerous. There are many reported examples of dangerous hazing that either had potential or did do serious harm. There aren’t as many recorded examples of hazing that cause no harm, because there wasn’t a big problem with them. Which on its own proves the point that hazing can be good or

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