[NU Sports] NU women's soccer hazing pictures

[Jonathan Hodges]

I am surprised something like this has not occurred at NU before now,
considering the amount of "hazing" that still occurs under the radar
and the number of pictures that are posted on the internet available
to anyone.  Facebook.com along with other social networking and
picture posting websites and blogs are extremely popular, particularly
on campus (and are becoming even more popular as kids grow up using
these daily then move on to college where they have even more
freedom).

What is interesting is that events like these do occur rather often in
the fraternity/sorority realm and chapters routinely get disbanded or
reprimanded for these activities without news spreading too far off
campus. While I was at NU from 2000-2005 I think 5 or 6 fraternities
were either disbanded or severely reprimanded for various hazing or
illegal activities.  Of course only once it reaches intercollegiate
sports (especially in light of the Duke situation) does it hit the
regional/national news.

This type of activity is definitely prevalent across campuses
nationwide and across different organizations - from athletics to the
Greek organizations to other student groups.  Is society
over-protective trying to stop all "hazing"?  Maybe.  I know that it
is definitely a point of emphasis in Greek organizations to avoid
anything that could be construed as hazing to avoid lawsuits (I could
see some possibly coming out of this - probably towards both students
and members of the athletics department).  Is this evidence of some
over-arching dysfunction at NU (as Mariotti would put it)?  No - this
is a case of everyone doing it and NU happened to be caught at the
wrong time.  What will happen?  NU will probably crack down
excessively on hazing and thus all organizations at the school will be
punished, athletics, Greek and otherwise.

Jonathan

On 5/17/06, Abrahamson, Alan <Alan.Abrahamson at latimes.com> wrote:
>  Not expressing any opinion here about whether it's hazing or a "rite of passage."
>  Simply observing, after taking a look today at badjocks.com, that it's a fascinating turn in technology and popular culture to see how many such similarly styled rituals have been posted on the internet.
>  Wonder how many of these photos were posted into the public domain without apparent reservation -- or whether the fact that such photos, once posted, were into the public domain was given much thought before posting.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com
> To: 'Ben Adler'; nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Sent: 5/17/2006 12:07 PM
> Subject: RE: [NU Sports] NU women's soccer hazing pictures
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> Uhhh, I talked about the story, and the fine line between hazing and a
> "rite of
> passage" on the front page of Purple Reign yesterday.
>
> I'm reserving judgement as to which it is because the pictures are
> inconclusive
> to me as one who has been involved in policing "rites of passage"
> celebrations.
>
> Here's the link...
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> http://northwestern.scout.com/2/531406.html
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> NU's team got "caught" because they put the pictures up on the internet.
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> rsl
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> >   How come every email about the hazing pictures so far has
> > been either a) lambasting or defending journalists who *have*
> > covered the story, or b) lambasting journalists who have
> > *not* yet covered the story?  Mariotti and Telander may be
> > jerks, but that's completely beside the point here.
> >
> >   No one is talking about the story itself.  Why not?
> >
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