hazings

Mom had been going through all the appropriate Jehovah sorority hazings, like sitting in the back of the Kingdom Hall without speaking and running through the quad naked with a Bible strapped to a goat.

I'm Perfect, You're Doomed Kyria Abrahams 2009

He simply let it fall to the ground every time and persisted through filthy punishments and brutal hazings by his comrades, saying only: "We don't do that."

Hasdai Westbrook: Enough to Make You Cry: When a Literary Giant Doesn't Know His Grass from his Elbow 2008

It ends 18 hours later, after a night of hazings and keg parties, petty crimes and crying jags.

Rock 'N' Roll High School 2008

I'm sure my friend Elliot Aronson would attribute this paralysis to 'cognitive dissonance' -- the same phenomenon that works so well in fraternity hazings and basic training, where people say to themselves: "if I had to suffer this much humiliation and pain to become a (Phi Delt, Marine) it must be a wonderful group to belong to."

Philip Slater: Why War Persists When War is Obsolete 2008

Rush Limbaugh attempted to excuse the earlier revelations as being "no different than fraternity hazings".

remember abu ghraib? 2005

Felton will go through the usual rookie hazings of being a short point guard who gets posted up by taller opposing point guards.

USATODAY.com 2005

At Fox, we are treated to breathless accounts of polygamists gone wild, soccer hazings, the Duke rape case, 'Da Vinci' protests, alligators on the rampage, another missing cruise passenger, Ward Churchill misconduct, and Hugo Chavez taking a wizz on the White House again.

The New New Threat 2006

At Fox, we are treated to breathless accounts of polygamists gone wild, soccer hazings, the Duke rape case, 'Da Vinci' protests, alligators on the rampage, another missing cruise passenger, Ward Churchill misconduct, and Hugo Chavez taking a wizz on the White House again.

The New New Threat 2006

On the other hand, I know of fraternity hazings that use similar group shame tactics to "bond" members, so who knows.

let's hear it for the faithful Holly 2006

The teachers (including an unregenerate Nazi who even spouts anti-Semitic tirades in class without fear of recrimination) prefer to ignore what goes on among the students, passing off severe beatings and a wide variety of humiliations as harmless “hazings.”

Cook and Carlyle: Last of the Best 2006