Hazing
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Hazing, initiation, beasting, bastardisation, ragging, or deposition, is an act that humiliates, degrades, abuses, or endangers a person, regardless of their willingness to participate, the enduring o
Hazing of a French Army pilot in 1997 after he completed 1,000 flight hours
Paddling depicted on 1922 cover of College Humor magazine.
The Okipa ceremony of the Mandan people as witnessed by George Catlin, c. 1832
Tied and blindfolded first-year students from Universidad de Talca, Chile
In North America, fraternities and sororities are social clubs at colleges and universities. They are sometimes collectively referred to as Greek life or Greek-letter organizations, as well as collegi
Hazing
…types of social groups, including gangs, sports teams, schools, cliques, universities, fire departments, law enforcement, military units, prisons, fraternities and sororities, and even workplaces in some cases. The initiation rites can range from relatively benign pranks to protracted patterns of behavior that rise to the…
Members of Phi Kappa Sigma at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania in 1872
Representatives from different fraternities at the University of Texas at Arlington, c. 1981
Delta Rho sorority at Nevada State University, 1901
Rush party at Gamma Phi Beta sorority at McGill University in Montreal, 1939