Fraternities and Sororities and Hazing Expert

Hazing, in general, but mostly on college campuses, is very ‘hush hush ', yet serious, issue. Most hazing events fly below the radar of campus officials and therefore are usually unheard of by the public. However, hazing occurs more often than people want to believe, even in places that people would never think to look. Whether it is in the more common areas such as sororities and fraternities on college campuses or between a junior and senior class in high school, hazing is hazing and it is a serious, and sometimes deadly, issue. 76% of students, who joined or attempted to join a fraternity or sorority group, were hazed during the pledging process. Most people automatically associate the word ‘hazing ' with fraternities and sororities. But what most people don 't know is that hazing occurs much more often than in greek life; of those who reported incidents of hazing, 25% of them said that it occurred at ages thirteen and younger. Hazing is prevalent in between classes in both high school and college, sports teams, interest and peer groups and increases with age, leading to heightened levels of statistics of hazing in the college years. Athletes, fraternity brothers, sorority sisters, members of church groups, club members, even rookies at jobs have had experiences or encounters with hazing (Alfred University: Research Study). Hazing is almost always associated with harmless pranks and antics that serves as a caste system of the new and the old members of a group, but rarely associated with death. There have been many deaths and many more serious injuries due to hazing of all kinds over the years. And from the words of Hank Nuwer, a hazing expert: "even a single death is a grave loss for the greek system" or for any system, for that matter (Nuwer). The most common type of hazing is found in the pledge processes of fraternities and sororities. Hazing, in many forms, is detrimental to both emotional and physical elements of the body and is often deemed ‘okay ' and

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