Why Is Hazing Gone Wrong

Most people are sent to college with high hopes of starting a successful future. No one thinks that they will never live to finish college. It is expensive to attend college let alone to pay to participate in a sorority. No one expects to pay for annihilated with their life. It is ridiculous the amount of hazing that happens and how extreme it has become. I have heard of the drinking ceremonies as well as the physically invasive traditions new pledge members have to participate in but when someone ends up dying from a severe hazing ritual most know that these rituals have gone too far. From burning people to almost putting fellow students into a alcohol induced coma I don't view hazing as appropriate at all. The article talks about …show more content…
I have a friend and all of her siblings are involved with some sort of Greek Life sorority. There hazing almost had the people involved in the organization expelled from school. As for her other sibling, he had to find his friend deceased in a ditch as a result of a hazing tradition gone wrong. No one should have to ever go through these hardships just because they wanted to be associated with a club. People shouldn’t have to die for tradition. This poor boy who was involved in the Pennsylvania frat incident shouldn’t have had to die because of tradition. The people involved in the frat shouldn’t have to have their lives ruined over tradition ethier. This whole situation is serious. thirty-two hard working students are going to be charged and possibly expelled from their college. Not to mention the five that are going to jail for murder. All of their lives are going to be ruined and they may never have the chance to have the future they wanted. Tradition is not worth jail time or death. Tradition isn't even the name for it. It is considered a sacrifice when someone dies due to a tradition. I agree with the statement made by the parents, this is outrageous that this goes on and that it has gotten so severe. People all over this country have suffered because of these acts and hazing