Anti Hazing Persuasive Essay

Phuong Dang

English 1301-338

Persuasive Essay

Professor Cassano

November 25, 2014

Anti-Hazing

It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. It is kind of funny, right? It started back in the 1850s as a tradition from the universities across the United States. The initiation immersed with horseplay and humiliated activities for incoming new members of the sorority and fraternity houses. As years gone by, it spread from universities to militaries, high schools, the athletic teams, and other organization of some sort such as the marching band. This ordeal was called hazing. Hazing is any action involving with the participants which can put them intentionally or unintentionally in danger physically, mentally, safety of the student, or in their

Many members joined a university or school on a scholarship or got funded by their parents. If a situation happens to one of the pledges such as injuries and death, the hazer may get expelled which could lose that scholarship and that money towards their tuition would go to waste. If the hazer gets lucky, they would just be suspended. However during their suspension, their academic would decrease drastically depending on how many days that person is suspended for. Heavy fines can be up to thousands of dollars, but even more if family of the victim presses charges. Most importantly, jail has became one of the many solutions if a victim dies during hazing. Jail consequences can sometimes be a little harsh because although, the hazer did not want to intentionally hurt or kill the victim, he or she are still paying the price of the crime he or she had committed. The hazer would be away from their family and friends up to a year to twenty five years. A penalty for hazing could amount up to a year if that person gets lucky and does not kill the victim. The story about Robert Champion whom died from internal bleeding from the tradition of Cross Bus C started by Dante Martin, the president of Cross Bus C. Martin was found guilty and sentenced to jail for twenty-two years