...“Hash tag: Yes to Fraternity, No to Hazing” Have you ever imagined yourself blindfolded, violently dragged to somewhere you even don’t know, struck hard by a paddle or a hard object and felt the excruciating pain? Do you have any idea of how will you ever survive the bruises, wounds and lashes you will get? It will not only scar your skin and flesh but your mind and soul, beating you physically, mentally and emotionally and worst may lead to your death. Fraternity - the most conventional thing that people who have nothing to do in life resort to; the brotherhood that protects its foundation towards less sensible goals; and the growing parasites of the society inflicting students and youth. Well, these are the common perceptions we initially think of about the fraternity. This must be the NEGATIVE view of this so-called brotherhood but let’s try to peek in beyond its surface. Brotherhood, it’s the considered primary reason why a group of people entitled themselves to establish a fraternity. Fraternities actually ruled the world. From a continent reaching the other end of another continent, you can never deny the existence maybe not called as fraternity but a brotherhood that stands for something they would fight unto force just like any other. In Filipino term, brotherhood is the “kapatiran”. Never been an alien to our ears, this kapatiran is composed of men with common goals in which they protect and cultivate, and this purposely unites them. Fellows, let’s be historians...
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...The Horrific tales of Hazing Hazing is an ordinary international issue which can lead to emotional and physical damage to anyone who participates.Many students get hazed before they even enter college in the United States.Hazing is any action taken created intentionally that causes embarrassment, harassment or ridicule and risks of emotional and physical harm to members of a group or team, whether new or not, regardless of the person's willingness to participate.To avert hazing President Trump can enroll anti-hazing laws in all fifty states, to prevent people from getting mentally and physically brutalized. The History of Hazing: Hazing started in the 16th century, the term hazing first took hold after veteran sailors would intimidate...
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...An End to Insanity Pine cones thrown at your face, stripped naked and left in a cornfield, and water forced down your throat until you vomit. Do any of these acts sound familiar? They are some of the most familiar forms of hazing. Although hazing is illegal in most states, the actions of cruelty are still being preformed today, it is an enormous problem so why isn’t more action being taken on it. I think it is because a lot of today’s hazing goes unreported either the school which it took place at is to embarrassed of the incident, or the student him/herself are to embarrassed to share the knowledge with others. In an article from CQ researcher by Brian Hansen he asks the question Should More Be Done to Stop It? I believe Hansen focuses on the article from a medical standpoint although he does not state that hazing is on the rise he does say that deaths caused from hazing are now higher then ever. He gives examples as to why the trend may be on the rise so much, the contemporary media endorses such acts that de grate people on shows like “Fear Factor” or movies like “Jackass.” Students see these acts and they may think that they are “ok” to perform because they were viewed by a national audience. Hansen also says that many deaths occur because students arrive with the “disneyland ride notion” where it may seem scary but the operators know what they are doing and everything will be ok, when in reality many of the hazers choose heinous acts at random that have never been...
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...Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Fraternity is an organized society of men associated together in companionship dedicated for a certain goal that will benefit its members (Buttermilch, 2014). Fraternities typically have some professional development and service opportunities. It offers support network for college students. Its core elements are brotherhood and social interaction. But the social demands and time commitments of fraternities may be destruction to academic studies and other personal goals of students in school (Kokemuller, 2014). Fraternities and sororities exist outside North America, most notably in the Philippines and in some European countries, but for the most part they are a decidedly American institution. Some types of fraternities emphasize service to the community, professional advancement, or scholastic achievement. Fraternities or sororities often have a so-called hazing. According to graceful1 (2008) in her article “Hazing Issue in Fraternities”, hazing has been around for more than a century, one cannot expect the practice of hazing to stop all together. Possible solutions that may decrease, and eventually put a stop to hazing, include better education about fraternity hazing, and more intervention from college administrators. Through this, fraternities can be restored to their intended purpose: providing moral and social support for college students. According to Melanie Gueco (2010), the Philippines’ very first brotherhood was the...
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...Hazing on the University of Illinois Campus: Brotherhood’s Most Dangerous Ritual? To what extent is hazing having a negative impact on the Greek System at American Universities and what is being done to combat this? Fraternities have always made it clear to potential recruits that the Greek System creates strong, powerful men, they aren’t wrong: the last 25 presidents, 18 of them have been fraternity men (Konnikova). These powerful, moral men may have found brotherhood, strength, and character in their fraternity, but they also were a part of a terrible practice that has been plaguing the United States campuses since the 1800s. Behind closed doors in dimly lit rooms, fraternity elders engage hazing activities of pledges. All throughout pledgeship,...
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...Statement of the Problem The Issues Involved in Fraternity Hazing Fraternity hazing can kill students or lead to other physical or mental handicaps. Many people think of fraternity hazing as being harmless. The problem is that sometimes it is not. Hazing is becoming more and more violent as the individuals involved try different things during the hazing of an individual to join a fraternity or organization. Hazing has been related to over fifty deaths and many injuries. What Is Hazing? Hazing can be defined as the initiation of a disciplinary activity involving horseplay, practical jokes, and humiliating activities. Hazing started in 1850 as a tradition in American universities and has continued since that date. Most universities have rules about what can be included in the hazing process. Many people argue that without hazing the fraternity pledges would not have the same meaning or be special. These people argue that without hazing the pledge process would deteriorate. Members of Fraternities believe that the pledge process is directed at building brotherhood. Why Do People Do Hazing in Fraternities or Other Organizations? The simple answer to this is peer pressure. People want to be accepted by their peers and are willing to things they would never normally do. Many of the prospective members are not aware of what will take place until they are involved in the process. The secrecy involved allows the hazing to get worse over time as more and more ideas are thought about...
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...Disadvantage of Joining Fraternity and Sorority of IT Student of Interface Computer College In Davao City A Research Paper Presented to Ms. Jemarie Gumban Interface Computer College Davao City, Philippines In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Subjects Eng-113 Technical Writing By Pearl Marie Cordova Leonel Formentera Date August, 2011 Acknowledgement TABLE OF CONTENTS Page I. Title Page i II. Acknowledgement ii III. Table of Contents iii CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION 2 RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES 3 PRESENTATION OF DATA REFERENCES Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Fraternities and sororities are visible in all colleges and state universities since the 1700's. They were first established to encourage activities outside of the classroom. There are exciting volunteer opportunities and social outlets available in joining these organizations. Not everyone have enough time once someone enters in. In Greece, fans of sororities and fraternities argue that their...
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...Smashed A teenager’s journey towards reaching adulthood involves various obstacles and challenges. Most essential among these that every teenager will stumble upon is the quest of finding your own identity. When embarking onto this journey, it often results finding your own identity which might become evident by reaching a conclusion to an essential problem in your life. Furthermore, the final destination of this journey towards reaching adulthood can be marked in different ways, granting you an elevated status in regards of maturity. This is the case in the extract of the novel called “Smashed” written by Koren Zalickas in 2010. We follow a young girl narrating as she reflects on several events in her life, the social patterns relevant to her and most important of all - finding a solution to her awkward presence. The narrator is a girl attending eighth grade who has been living under uneasy circumstances. This becomes evident as she describes herself withdrawing from her own family (p. 88 ll. 31-p. 89 ll. 2). This part of the extract not only tells us how the narrator is partly shunning her own family, which indicates confusion in this context. It also gives the reader the impression that the narrator is an insecure girl judging by her own description of her closet along with the usual challenge every morning regarding the narrator being unable to decide how to dress herself depending on the mentioned factors. This correlates well with the narrator being insecure as she...
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...Bsbhrm506A Manage Recruitment, Selection and Induction Processes BSBHRM506A Manage recruitment, selection and induction processes Assessment 3 9/1/2014 ACC140130 Mitch Mueller TABLE OF CONTENTS INDUCTION AND ORIENTATION TASK 1 INDUCTION GUIDE………………………………………………………………………………………….….........................4 MENTORING SYSTEM…………………………………………………………………………………………..........…………...5 TASK 2 STUDENT ORIENTATION SURVEY....................................................................................................7 * INTRODUCTION * ORIENTATION GOOD PRACTICE PRINCIPLES * CURRENT ORIENTATION PRACTICES * CONCERNS WITH CURRENT ORIENTATION PRACTICES * IMPROVING ORIENTATION AND TRANSITION THROUGH COORDINATION TASK 3 PROBATIONARY PLAN...................................................................................................................11 TASK 4 ORIENTATION SURVEY...........……………………………………………………………………...........……….………….12 INDUCTION POLICY AND PROCEDURE..........................................................................................15 HR INDUCTION & ORIENTATION INDUCTION New staff induction guide Before Arrival | Supervisor Responsibility | HR Responsibility | | Prepares for new starter arrival using pre-arrival checklist.Schedules meetings and activities for new starters first week | Completes recruitment and selection processSends employment Offer Letter to preferred candidate | | New staff | Supervisor | HR | Starting Essentials | Begins...
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...AN ACT REGULATING HAZING AND OTHER FORMS OF INITIATION RITES IN FRATERNITIES, SORORITIES, AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND PROVIDING PENALTIES THEREFOR Section 1. Hazing, as used in this Act, is an initiation rite or practice as a prerequisite for admission into membership in a fraternity, sorority or organization by placing the recruit, neophyte or applicant in some embarrassing or humiliating situations such as forcing him to do menial, silly, foolish and other similar tasks or activities or otherwise subjecting him to physical or psychological suffering or injury. The term "organization" shall include any club or the Armed Forces of the Philippines, Philippine National Police, Philippine Military Academy, or officer and cadet corp of the Citizen's Military Training and Citizen's Army Training. The physical, mental and psychological testing and training procedure and practices to determine and enhance the physical, mental and psychological fitness of prospective regular members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police as approved ny the Secretary of National Defense and the National Police Commission duly recommended by the Chief of Staff, Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Director General of the Philippine National Police shall not be considered as hazing for the purposes of this Act. Sec. 2. No hazing or initiation rites in any form or manner by a fraternity, sorority or organization shall be allowed without prior written notice to...
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...REACTION: Fraternity nowadays, especially in our Country is a major Problem. In the Article that I gave is all about the fraternity in the ancient times, I think there’s no update for the latest Fraternity happened. When I search about the article, it talks about the ancient fraternity. It always based in the United States, where it was believed to be the place of the Beginning of the fraternity. And when I search the article base in the Philippines or in the Philippine setting, the one that pop out is about news related to fraternity and there’s no information about fraternity in the Philippines. It also pops out the Different names of the fraternity. As far as I know, Fraternity in the early times is kind of brotherhood, it is where they formed a group of friend to help each one of them, where members must bond, interact and live together over the period of the college life or for some High School life. This club becomes a place for members to meet, socialize and create friendship amongst other members. As a result each member gains recognition, sense of belonging in a family and an ability to feel needed and wanted by the club. One of the most controversial legacies left to the modern fraternity or sorority by past generations is the tradition of physical, psychological, or emotional testing of its potential members as a rite of passage to full membership. Here in the Philippines, Fraternity refers to a ‘Gang o Gangster’...
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...Background of the Study Fraternities and sororities are visible in all colleges and state universities since the 1700's. They were first established to encourage activities outside of the classroom. There are exciting volunteer opportunities and social outlets available in joining these organizations. Not everyone have enough time once someone enters in. In Greece, fans of sororities and fraternities argue that their system gives students leadership opportunities and lasting friendships. This is true in many cases but some sororities and fraternities have more excuses for getting drunk and doing potentially dangerous pranks. In the U.S. hazing has resulted in several deaths and serious injuries. Matthew Carrington was killed at California’s Chico State University on February 2, 2005. Hazing is considered a felony in several U.S. states, and anti-hazing legislation has been proposed in other states. In Indonesia, 35 people died since 1993 as a result of hazing initiation rites. The latest is in April 2007 when Cliff Muntu died after being beaten by the seniors. In India, hazing has been banned for the last few years. Recently, in a historical judgment, the Hon. Supreme Court of India directed the police to lodge criminal cases against those accused of hazing. State governments have also been ordered to deal with hazing strictly. In the Philippines, The family of University of the Philippines National College of Public Administration and Governance student Cris Anthony Mendez...
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...Explaining hazing. Give 3 illustrations (for example Micheal Deng). Hazing is basically a way to see how far a person will go just to get into a fraternities or sororities. Even though these situations occur in such a horrible tragedy, I'm going to depth about Robert Champion from FAMU, the Baruch college case, and the military case... If you want to join a group, do your research and don't do anything you don't want to do that can risk your life. Hazing can lead to horrible consequences. First of all, In November 2011, 26-year-old drum major Robert Champion was killed during a hazing ritual. According to the Orlando Sentinel, there were witnesses who had seen everything that transpired. The ex- band members...
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...study and definition of terms. Background of the Study Fraternities exist now a day, these days fraternities are common among college students.. The word fraternities came from the Latin word, frater and soror, meaning ‘’brother’’ and ‘’sister ‘’respectively. From the beginning, the norms and values of fraternities were independent of the college environment. Since the founding of Kappa Alpha at Union College (in Schenectady, New York) in 1825 as the oldest secret brotherhood of a social nature, fraternities developed with different personalities and histories on each campus. The trappings of an idealized ancient Greece were added to those of Freemasonry to create secret societies dedicated to bringing together young men who were seeking conviviality. Members historically met weekly in a student dormitory room or rented facility for social and intellectual fellowship. To fight the monotony of mid-nineteenth-century colleges, fraternities institutionalized various escapes of a social nature. In our time many of the students who study at the university are involved in fraternities and became a big problem with the university because many of the students participating here have neglected their studies and the others were lost due to hazing.And most of the students involved in fraternities and unaware of their parents. Based on the researchers’ observations here in DCSP, many students are involved in fraternities. Usually, the first year students are taking a Bachelor...
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...ASPECTS OF FRATERNITIES The first thing that enters my mind when I hear the word fraternities are organizations of guys who spend their time drinking beers and having their social gatherings. Well, these accusations have been proven many times on the articles that I have read a long time ago, that most fraternity members, especially on college campuses are seen as drunks who accomplish nothing scholastically or socially. But this impression of mine has changed a little after I have done some researches regarding on the topic. Most people fail to mention the fact that there are some memberships in fraternity who value a life-long experience that help their members develop social organization and study skills and also teach true, everlasting friendship. Fraternities can be organized for many purposes, including university education, working skills, ethics, religion, politics, charity, chivalry, other standards of personal conduct, asceticism service, performing arts, family command of territory and even crime. they were established to nurture pride, leadership, unity and commitment. But the main purpose of a fraternity vanished after the existence of the nowadays fraternities, especially found on college campuses. Results indicated that membership in a fraternity was associated with significantly lower scores on the reading comprehension, mathematics, and critical thinking. This is one of the disadvantages that a member may encounter after he decided to join a fraternity. But the...
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