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The Daily Northwestern: Former NU football player details hazing allegations after coach suspension

SB Nation: Northwestern football’s shocking hazing scandal, explained

Have you ever hazed or been hazed?

As a freshman, the seniors were mostly pretty cool to us. The worst they ever did to any of us that I know of was hide our gear around the locker room.

As a senior...we hazed the absolute hell out of the freshman. Nothing as extreme as what the Northwestern players did, but still, some really awful stuff. I never directly participated, but I sure as hell stood by and watched and laughed, and almost 30 years later, I still feel bad about. I don't know exactly when our coaches found out about it, but the year after I graduated they solidly put a stop to it.
 
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Eh the worst thing I remember happening was someone whipping someone else with a towel. Past that coaches would have never allowed it.

Depending on what you consider hazing; it can be fun or it can be just awful. I’ve seen stuff in the NFL like making the rookies carry everyone’s pads or a vet gives them a goofy haircut. No big deal.
 
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UnfrozenCatfanLawyer said:
All I know is that football hazing seems to be incredibly homoerotic 99% of the time.
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There was a guy who worked in the carpenter shop of the chemical plant I worked in whose son spent time in a juvenile center for his participation in what amounted to a rape that involved a broom handle and Ben Gay of a couple of younger players at a high school. Two of his 18 year old teammates did time in jail for their role. When I was in high school, that **** never went beyond carrying pads and helmets of older players.
 
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Never in sports. Sports - especially football - is tough enough for the young guys. You are beating the hell out of them on the football field in practice as they are usually the scout team, so why would you extend that to the locker room? I can't imagine doing that.

In fraternity life, sure. But nothing sexual (I can't imagine how anybody could do that), nothing requiring people to eat/drink gross stuff / alcohol. Mostly just making pledges designated drive and giving them **** while they all hung out with us. But it was all kind of a joke. And in good fun. I do think some people took that too far though.
 
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I still haven't read exactly what supposedly happened. I've read "sex things" but there has not been anything I've looked at online that described that hazing. Carrying equipment for seniors is not hazing. Having to strip naked and be embarrassed as a freshman is hazing. What did they do?
 
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We were hazed as Pledges in my Fraternity in early 70's but nothing sexual or dangerous.
 
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Back when I was at UK, the black sororities and fraternities would publicly haze their pledges. I remember seeing the women wearing the exact same outfits and being led around campus on display. My friend pledged and stopped talking to people outside of the fraternity. I pressed him on what was going on and he pulled me into his room and told me privately and apologetically that he was not permitted to talk to anyone outside of the fraternity during that period. I have no idea what went on outside of public view.

Frat guys used to joke about the stuff they did. I remember one telling me they chained a kid to a tombstone in a graveyard. Of course, we hear of the tragedies of alcohol poisoning when kids are forced to drink large quantities. Dumb ideas getting people killed.

Hazing is a bad idea and one reason I would never consider being Greek in college. I am not going to like you for abusing me.
 
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Hazed pretty good as a pledge. Mainly just annoying inconveniences, nothing sexual or physical (other than maybe making us do pushups or something). Hell week was pretty bad, but that was more of a sleep deprivation type of hazing. Helped I was in my 2nd year of college and was already friends with many of the actives.

The hazing really fell off as my pledge class got older. Wasn’t my thing, for sure.

Never was hazed playing sports. But, as pussyfied as this sounds, that was one of the reasons I didn’t play football in high school. As an 8th grader, I heard stories of teabaggings and other very demeaning actions. Nope.
 
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A Senior basketball player hung me over the ledge of the gym steps by my feet as a freshman. He was about 6'6" and I was about 5'8". I'm not sure if it was hazing or just the fact that he was a gigantic doubebag. He later went to prison for his roll in a conspiracy to shoot a cop. He got a life sentence without parole for the first 25 years so I guess I got the last laugh.
 
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Creed Bratton said:
A Senior basketball player hung me over the ledge of the gym steps by my feet as a freshman. He was about 6'6" and I was about 5'8". I'm not sure if it was hazing or just the fact that he was a gigantic doubebag. He later went to prison for his roll in a conspiracy to shoot a cop. He got a life sentence without parole for the first 25 years so I guess I got the last laugh.
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Yeah, Vanilla Ice, you really showed him.
 
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I guess I'll be the guy who says hazing has always seemed stupid and pointless. If it's tradition, then sometimes tradition is stupid and pointless. Hazing doesn't make you a better or stronger person. It's just an excuse to be a dick for a little while to someone who is usually younger, and it's masked as a team-building exercise for the betterment of the group. It's the definition of being a follower.
 
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...Good lord. Well for the record, after reading through this thread, I guess the hazing we gave the freshman was pretty damn tame. XD
 
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In college, my fraternity, I guess, was guilty of "hazing". It wasn't anything to big. It was things like telling a pledge to chug his beer (never anything to get them to the point of alcohol poisoning), make them be DD, or little things like that.

I have heard of 2 instances of hazing that cross the line (whether either are true or not, I have no idea). One is really bad but the other is really funny but certainly messes with your mind.

1. A fraternity got a group of 3 pledges drunk. They took them to the airport and put them on a plane with a one way ticket to Alaska.

2. This, I think, is more funny than anything but it would mess with your mind. A fraternity got their pledge class together and blindfolded them. They were told that if you get tapped on the shoulder, you are to immediately kneel down and give the person on your right a BJ. What the pledge class didn't know was the fraternity had arranged with a sorority to be there and there was an equal number of girls who would actually be giving the BJs.
 
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I was made to get up early, do strenuous tasks for hours at a time, restricted to certain times I was allowed to eat, made to wear certain clothes, and yelled at if I messed up my tasks.

The deans office called it hazing, I called it a job.
 
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TCurtis75 said:
2. This, I think, is more funny than anything but it would mess with your mind. A fraternity got their pledge class together and blindfolded them. They were told that if you get tapped on the shoulder, you are to immediately kneel down and give the person on your right a BJ. What the pledge class didn't know was the fraternity had arranged with a sorority to be there and there was an equal number of girls who would actually be giving the BJs.
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There is a 0 percent chance this happened
 
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When I was at UK the white fraternities made pledges wear the same kind of outfits. They also would call them up in the middle of the night or late at night and dump all the **** in their refrigerator all over them then make them walk back to campus. I know some of them were locked in the basement and subjected to punishments, sleep deprivation by loud music constantly and a lot of other stuff. White fraternities were crazy.
 
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I’ve never been one to tolerate that kind of stuff. Sounds like I really missed out lol.
 
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When I went out for HS football as an 8th grader back in the '60s" it was called "initiation day" for the newcomers on the team.
There was an area near the dressing rooms that was hosed down to make a huge mud pit and we were stripped naked and dragged through the mud. Some players cried and were jeered for it, but that was the extent of it.

It's a different world today.
 
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Was a rumor going around that a FB player was pledging a certain frat at UK. Huge dude and pledges were lined up and blind folded. Think he got smacked in the nuts, proceeded to take off the blind fold and kicked some guys asses. Needless to say, he did not continue.

Saw said player in a fight outside Kittys and absolutely destroyed this guy.
 
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We had a guy in our fraternity who required a pledge come to his room every morning and tape on his bathroom mirror the following:

1) Today’s weather report
2) An inspirational quote
3) A playboy pic

I always thought that was funny. This guy is a CEO now.
 
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