hazing
Americannoun
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hazings
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Origin of hazing
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The Madison Police Department arrested the fraternity’s president and vice president because hazing is illegal in the state of Wisconsin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Effective prevention begins with understanding and changing those dynamics to transform hazing culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Longtime Bush friend Clay Johnson recalls that Bush revealed nascent political skill during fraternity hazing at Yale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The kitchen scenes are a combo platter of boot camp, frat house hazing ritual and kung fu movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Fort Hare could be a rather elitist place and was not without the hazing common to many institutions of higher learning.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
The Rival Pitchers A Story of College Baseball A faithful picture of college life of to-day, with its hazings, its grinds, its pretty girls and all.
From Dorothy Dale in the City by Margaret Penrose
Historic revivals of hunting urge make an interesting recital of religious inquisitions, witch-burnings, college hazings, persecution of suffragettes, of the I.W.W., of the Japanese, or of pacifists.
From An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker by Cornelia Stratton Parker
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