Humzah Butt Essays (488 words) - Human Behavior, Rites Of Passage

Humzah Butt Today I will convince you guys that hazing in HS and college campuses should be abolished. We're all college students in here and I'm pretty sure we all have been involved in at least a club or a sports team growing up as well as we all have been in a situation where we were forced to do something that we didn't want to do. Well whether you knew it or not, you were being hazed. This topic is important to me because when I was in High School, I was hazed while I was on the basketball team. While many believe that hazing is nothing more than a harmless prank that can bring a team or group "closer", but in reality, it results in more danger than fun. Hazing has led to multiple deaths on college campuses. One example of hazing leading to a death of a student happened on September 14th, 2017 when Maxwell Gruver who was an 18-yr old pledge at LSU was taken to the hospital after an alleged drinking game hazing ritual known as "bible study". He was pronounced dead the same day. The cause of death was stated as being from "acute alcohol intoxication with aspiration". There are roughly 5,500 fraternities in the United States and about 55% of college students involved in clubs, organizations and teams experience hazing. As of 2017, there has already been 4 deaths due to hazing. Students who experience hazing tend to get future mental illnesses. Sometimes because of shame or self-blame, we do not hear about the psychological effects of hazing. These cases do not make the news or even reported the same way that physical trauma is but the negative psychological effects of hazing can be both long lasting and just as traumatic to the victim and their families. What we don't know about another individual can be the ultimate harm of hazing. Someone who joined an organization or team could have experienced something in their lives that makes them highly likely to serious repercussions if they're hazed. So now that we know that hazing can lead to more harm than good, we need to find ways to control and eventually end hazing on campuses. One way that we can prevent hazing is to reduce the power differential between members and initiatives of the fraternities. Members of frats do not have an innate desire to haze, but they are often placed in situations where they can exert power over new members. By creating a new athmospere where new members can discuss their experiences with existing members without punishment, the existing members will find fewer opportunities to haze. Other ways to prevent hazing on campuses would be to enforce the drinking age as well as having curfews for big frat parties. And most of all, the faculty and administration of the college/university should have more oversight of the fraternities. In conclusion, Hazing