Are you fazed by haze?
Colleen Scanlon
Issue date: 10/29/09 Section: Campus News
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According to hazingprevention.org, nine out of ten students who have gotten hazed in college don't consider themselves to have been hazed at all. The definition of hazing is "any action taken or situation created intentionally that causes embarrassment/harassment and risks emotional and/or physical harm to members of an organization or team against one's will."
In an attempt to make students aware of how serious hazing is around college campuses, Bridgewater State College will be hosting the National Hazing Prevention Week from November 2nd to November 6th.
The Office of Student Involvement and Leadership (OSIL), as well as the Department of Athletics and Recreation, will be sponsoring National Hazing Prevention Week. BSC sororities and fraternities will be helping out all week as well to spread information about putting a stop to this type of humiliation.
Even though this nation-wide week has been going on for a few years now, it just started up at BSC two years ago. There will be different events occurring around campus to help students understand hazing further.
SGA, for instance, is sponsoring a speaker to come and talk to the Bridgewater State College campus. The speaker, Erle Morring, will talk about his own confrontation with hazing in his fraternity. He will speak about his goal of making the fraternities and sororities at his college change their negative traditions of hazing. Students who are interested in hearing this personal story can go to Horace Mann Auditorium on Monday, November 2 at 8 pm.
On Tuesday, November 3, the Panhellenic Association, the governing board of sororities, and the Interfraternity Council, will be hosting a showing of a documentary called "Haze" at noon. This will be held in the Small Ballroom for anyone who is interested. The documentary will focus on a student, Gordie Bailey, who died at the University of Colorado in 2004 from the cause of hazing.
The Associate Director of OSIL, Maribeth Johnson and the Director of Athletics, John Harper, will be holding a "brown bag lunch" for faculty and staff in the Campus Center (room 202) on Wednesday, November 4 for those interested in talking about hazing issues.
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