Rites of Passage? Initiation? Training?

1. Hazing Rites of Passage? Initiation? Training?

2. OVERVIEW • College definition of Hazing. • Chuck Stenzel case. • What hazing in the military is. • Citadel Hazing incident • Blood pinning in the marines. • Prevention. • Summary. • Questions?

3. COLLEGE DEFINITION OF HAZING “Any action taken or situation created, intentionally, whether on or off fraternity premises, to produce mental or physical discomfort, embarrassment, harassment, or ridicule. Such activities and situations include paddling in any form; creation of excessive fatigue; physical and psychological shocks; quests, treasure hunts, scavenger hunts, road trips, or any other activities carried on outside the confines of the house; wearing, publicly, apparel which is conspicuous and not normally in good taste; engaging in public stunts and buffoonery; morally degrading or humiliating games and activities; late work sessions which interfere with scholastic activities; and any other activities which are not consistent with fraternal law, ritual, or policy or the regulations and policies of the educational institution.”

4. CHUCK STENZEL • Chuck Stenzel pledged with Klan Alpine in Alfred University. • He was taken by surprise from his dorm and put into a trunk with two other pledges. • They were told to drink the pint of bourbon, six-pack of beer, and bottle of wine before they could be let out of the car. • All three of them passed out, one with cardiac arrest, but Chuck Stenzel was taken to a second floor room and left there. • His breathing stopped and he died that night. It was tapping night

5. HAZING IN THE MILITARY • Hazing is defined as any conduct whereby a military member without proper authority causes another military member, regardless of service or rank, to suffer or be exposed to any activity which is cruel, abusive, humiliating, oppressive, demeaning, or harmful • Some examples include hitting or striking, tattooing, branding, shaving, “blood pinning,” and forcing alcohol consumption • Hazing does not include authorized training of any sort, administrative corrective measures, or additional military instruction

6. CITADEL MILITARY ACADEMY INCIDENT • 14 December 1996 • Two female cadets were sprayed with flammable liquid and their clothes were set on fire • Neither of them were injured • The complaint was not made until two weeks later by another cadet, because the female cadets did not want to report it. • Interim President assured CNN news reporters that the punishment will be very severe if it is even remotely true.

7. BLOOD-WINGING INCIDENT • This is an age old tradition in marine jump school • The comrades of the subjective marines take turns pounding the marines’ newly earned jump wings into their chest with the back taken off of the wings. • It was looked at as a rite of passage, “if you can’t take that and you need to go fight against bullets, how are you going to fulfill your duty?” • The act had already been ruled as hazing, but the regulation was ignored by the commandant of these marines. • This act could cost 10 marines their position, rank, or even dishonorable discharge.

8. PREVENTION • Prevention is the only way to stop the problem. • Hazing is caused by tradition, so it is not easily broken and most of the time, if tradition is involved, the group will overlook the regulation to continue the tradition. In other words if they went through it others will have to go through it. • Hazing will never be totally gone but steps are being taken every year to ensure that it occurs less and less frequently.

9. SUMMARY • College definition of Hazing. • Chuck Stenzel case. • What hazing in the military is. • Citadel Hazing incident • Blood pinning in the marines. • Prevention.

10. QUESTIONS????