Hazing Quotes

• Hazing is an extraordinary activity that, when it occurs often enough, becomes perversely ordinary as those who engage in it grow desensitized to its inhumanity.

  Hank Nuwer

  Ordinary, Enough, Inhumanity

  Hank Nuwer (2001). “Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking”, p.31, Indiana University Press

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• Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated, but here is a starting point:
  Ever since the medieval universities were founded, young people have done whatever it takes to gain acceptance, to break with their past lives, to achieve a sense of power, to carve out a society of their own that isn't quite what their tutors and teachers had in mind. In the United States, hazing and drinking have been endemic since colonial days.

  Hank Nuwer

  Teacher, Drinking, Acceptance

  Hank Nuwer (2001). “Wrongs of Passage: Fraternities, Sororities, Hazing, and Binge Drinking”, p.194, Indiana University Press

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• Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.

  Warren Farrell

  Team, Self, Training

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• My dad was in a fraternity back in the 1950s, and they sound really fun back then. Nowadays they sound like they can get a little heavy-duty in terms of the hazing and the drinking. Im not so much into the idea of being made to do a bunch of insane stuff just so I can have the privilege of hanging around certain people... Thats probably why I was never in a fraternity.

  Luke Wilson

  Fun, Dad, Drinking

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• This is part of what it means to become holy, to be refined by fire. Difficulties and sufferings are God's form of hazing. Sometimes it gets so hard, we think Him cruel. But He's only looking for men and women who will keep their cool when things go horribly wrong, a people prepared to dash into burning rooms to rescue those about to be engulfed in flames.

  Mark Galli

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• When I tell people I work to stop hazing in high schools I am almost always met with shocked expressions. "High school? Really? I thought that was something that only arrogant frat guys do in college." But it's true - as long as I have worked on preventing bullying in high schools, I have worked to prevent hazing.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Bullying, School, College

  "The Messy Reality of High School Hazing" by Rosalind Wiseman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2009.

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• I remember my rookie hazing. It wasnt fun.

  Gio Gonzalez

  Fun, Rookies, Remember

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• When I was in school, my former roommate went through hazing. I heard the stories, but I don't think I've seen a movie that captures the stuff that goes on.

  Nick Jonas

  School, Thinking, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process.

  Paula Vogel

  Theatre, Calling, Process

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• This was in the '70s and there was a lot of racism towards South Asians and there was a lot of hazing and bullying and racism that really probably shaped me in some way in terms of, like, wanting to get out of there.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Bullying, Racism, Way

  "Aasif Mandvi On Life As A 'No Land's Man' And Impressing Jon Stewart". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 3, 2014.

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• I feel like [God]'s hazing us.

  Jon Stewart

  Feels

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