The Anne Frank Project
Outline
Introduction/Thesis: On September twelfth I attended a session that was in regards to the Anne Frank Project. The session was a lecture on Bystander intervention in hazing, and how it can harm and affect others. Hazing is humiliating and sometimes dangerous initiation rituals as imposed on college students seeking membership to a fraternity or sorority. I found this session very resourceful, and learned that pledging can be beneficial, but also life threatening Hank Nuwer, who is an author and professor whose academic specialty is hazing education was the speaker of this session. Hank began the session with a fascinating one-man play called “A Broken Pledge” that he wrote, and performed himself. The lecture, followed by the play gave me a fair amount of information on how the hazing rituals are enacted, how they have been so difficult to put a halt to, and how there is at least one hazing death a year which is one too many. Before I attended this session I thought joining a sorority was a great way to get involved with Buffalo State College and the many things they had to offer, but if losing my life was a possibility then that is something I would not be interested in.
CWP 101
26 September 2013
The Truth about Hazing
On September twelfth I attended a session that was in regards to the
Anne Frank Project. The session was a lecture on Bystander intervention in hazing, and how it can harm and affect others. Hazing is humiliating and sometimes dangerous initiation rituals as imposed on college students seeking membership to a fraternity or sorority. I found this session very resourceful, and learned that pledging can be beneficial, but also life threatening. Hank Nuwer, who is an author and professor whose academic specialty is hazing education was the speaker of this session. Hank began the session with a fascinating one-man play called “A Broken Pledge” that he wrote, and performed himself. The lecture, followed by the
Introduction/Thesis: On September twelfth I attended a session that was in regards to the Anne Frank Project. The session was a lecture on Bystander intervention in hazing, and how it can harm and affect others. Hazing is humiliating and sometimes dangerous initiation rituals as imposed on college students seeking membership to a fraternity or sorority. I found this session very resourceful, and learned that pledging can be beneficial, but also life threatening Hank Nuwer, who is an author and professor whose academic specialty is hazing education was the speaker of this session. Hank began the session with a fascinating one-man play called “A Broken Pledge” that he wrote, and performed himself. The lecture, followed by the play gave me a fair amount of information on how the hazing rituals are enacted, how they have been so difficult to put a halt to, and how there is at least one hazing death a year which is one too many. Before I attended this session I thought joining a sorority was a great way to get involved with Buffalo State College and the many things they had to offer, but if losing my life was a possibility then that is something I would not be interested in.
CWP 101
26 September 2013
The Truth about Hazing
On September twelfth I attended a session that was in regards to the
Anne Frank Project. The session was a lecture on Bystander intervention in hazing, and how it can harm and affect others. Hazing is humiliating and sometimes dangerous initiation rituals as imposed on college students seeking membership to a fraternity or sorority. I found this session very resourceful, and learned that pledging can be beneficial, but also life threatening. Hank Nuwer, who is an author and professor whose academic specialty is hazing education was the speaker of this session. Hank began the session with a fascinating one-man play called “A Broken Pledge” that he wrote, and performed himself. The lecture, followed by the