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Outline On Hazing

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- Hazing and the Effects It Has On College Life
Introduction – Hazing continues to harm individuals who are only seeking acceptance into a desired group.
I. The requirements that the group considers needed in order to join.
A. “Special” initiations/requests that go from ordinary to strange and dangerous.
1. Students must cause harm to their own body.
a. Binge drinking has been popular and taken place many times (Alcohol Positioning).
b. Sexual attacks, or self-attacks have been placed upon students,
2. Students have to do something embarrassing.
a. The stripping of clothes and all garments for anyone to see can cause humiliation.
b. Students must do dumb tests and activities, even if they look stupid, just to gain approval.
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Students may be forced to go forward with a task they aren’t ready for; therefore losing what sense of confidence they had left.
4. They conceal what humanity you might have had left.
a. Student may be isolated from any form of life.
b. They may want a student to show how cruel they can be.
B. Your race plays a large role on the amount of hazing that sorority/fraternity choose to partake in.
1. Students must be the ethnicity of that of the group.
2. Depending on color of skin, students that are of different color than that of group may have to go through a more harmful, or embarrassing activity.
3. Students may be treated different, depending on color, even after being accepted.
II. Hazing has caused deaths, dangerous injuries, and society’s attention.
A. There has been at least one death every year because of hazing.
B. Internal injuries have taken place
C. Beatings, scarring, and bruises have been the norm for many fraternities and sororities.
D. Many people rethink the joining of certain colleges/sororities/fraternities because of their background.
E. Many laws in different states have been passed to make hazing illegal.
III. Hazing has been around for a long time and was once called, flogging, or fagging.
A. Flogging was used mainly in public

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