I'm not sure if anyone else in our class is a part of the Greek community here at MTSU, but if you are... You were forced to watch this awful video this last Thursday.
Okay, first off, this was a video about Hazing, since PIKE at UT just had to make one of their pledges butt chug a beer and it almost killed him.. We all have to go through these 'anti hazing' events to reassure our new babies that we won't make them do thing like this.
The movie starts out pretty hilarious, I actually was laughing pretty hard because of the funny things they were making the guys do. . But very quickly it gets disturbing.. They start to beat the pledges with wooden paddles, until they can't take it anymore, and every time they are struck they must yell out "he ain't heavy, he my brother". Now how this makes you a closer brotherhood-- I'm kind of confused.
My sisters would never make me do anything that would make me feel so small and insignificant, they always loft me up and make me feel like I'm one of a kind. This movie was so extreme, but the sad part about all of this, is that this actually does happen, especially I the African American fraternities.
At the end of the movie, one of the main characters were being forced to run for hours and hours, and finally his heart gives out and he has a heart attack and dies.. And where was his brothers? Running away from him without even calling 911 until after he was dead.
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