Sexually Abusive Sorority Hazing Runs Rampant At Small Georgia University
A tiny college in northern Georgia, Young Harris College, has become a bastion of some sexually-charged, aggressive hazing, and this time it’s the sororities coming in hot. Fraternities have some answering to do, as well, but the ladies are the center of this campus chaos. YHC Greek life is largely comprised of local chapters, resulting in an environment free of higher-up, regulatory, watchful eyes. This has created some unfortunate free rein involving sorority and fraternity hazing customs. Although sexual in nature, and even featuring some nudity, it’s not the type to get the pants twitching.
There is some seriously messed up stuff going out there. One current sophomore, Jo Hannah Burch, a former Gamma Psi pledge, is exploring all avenues to ensure the abusive nature of the Greek culture comes to a halt. She has filed a lawsuit against the college.
Fem blog Jezebel, being the dedicated do-gooders that they are, was able to obtain a list of “highly disturbing” allegations after the conclusion of an investigation. Here they are:
• Forcing female pledges to take part in a “panty run,” in which they are required to run across campus in their underwear as other students, including male students, look on;
• Forcing “sweethearts” (female members of male fraternities) to stand naked and be judged by the fraternity members;
• Forcing “sweethearts” to hump the ground and moan as if having sex, as the fraternity members look on;
• Forcing both female and male pledges to stand in a pool of water in which the older pledges have urinated or defecated in;
• Forcing male pledges to engage in “elephant crawls” through a creek, during which the pledges crawl one behind another, with each pledge’s face planted between the buttocks of the pledge in front of him;
• Forcing female pledges to sit unclothed on running washing machines while members of the sorority use a permanent marker to mark areas of their bodies that jiggle;
• Interrogating students who are believed to have “ratted” on fellow Greeks and making derogatory and sexually explicit personal insults. In one particular instance during the Spring semester, a female student was screamed at to the point of tears in front of an entire sorority and called sex-specific insults such as “cunt” and “whore.”
“Forcing male pledges to engage in “elephant crawls” through a creek, during which the pledges crawl one behind another, with each pledge’s face planted between the buttocks of the pledge in front of him”
No, thanks.
Hazing is a test of more than just one’s physical, mental, or psychological endurance. At some point — in not all, but some, cases — a decision has to be made about the compromise of one’s principles and self-respect. Personally speaking, planting my money-maker into the asshole of another dude is a fair distance past where I draw the line. Shit ain’t cool. It’s like gay-zing with a sick, demonic, smelly twist.
I’ll catch you guys in the dining hall or hooping it up at the rec, because I’m out of there.
Jo Hannah Burch reached her breaking point, too. My guess is it was somewhere between the washing machine jiggle-a-thon and standing nude in piss and shit while surrounded by onlookers.
Young Harris College is attempting to sweep the embarrassing allegations under the rug. Because of some persistence on behalf of Burch, the school will have to respond in court.
YHC “has until May 28th to formally respond to the case, which accuses the administration of violating Title IX by knowing and condoning a culture of pervasive sexual harassment among the Greek student groups on YHC campus.”
[via Peach Pundit, Jezebel]
Image via Georgia Mountain Beacon
1) I don’t see anything wrong with the female hazing described here.
11 years ago at 2:47 pm2) Jezebel is a feminist blog. NF.
The thing with the washing machine was kind of funny.
11 years ago at 2:47 pmI’ve heard of the Washing machine thing at other schools
11 years ago at 4:48 pmHow is that funny?
11 years ago at 2:45 amCause its funny. and boobs. you queer boy?
10 years ago at 6:06 pmGonna have to remember that washing machine idea. I could make a night out of that.
11 years ago at 2:49 pmWho wants a sweetheart that “jiggles” anyways?
11 years ago at 2:49 pmTrying to picture the creepy pervball that shows up to watch chicks stand naked in what amounts to a giant toilet.
11 years ago at 2:50 pmHad the same thought myself
11 years ago at 10:30 amwhy dont they force the females to do that as well? sounds like a double standard to me.
11 years ago at 2:50 pmFiring someone for whistle-blowing is retaliation, and EXTREMELY illegal. Even in an at will state, the professors fired have a case, as do the hazed kids. Normally I would make light of this and say something funny, but this is way fucked up on so many levels.
11 years ago at 2:54 pmThis kid has a future in pre-med, I mean, pre-law. Wait, is this Brittany Morgan, AOPi and LFL QB?
11 years ago at 9:41 pmSounds like a bunch of people that started Greek life at a shithole college based purely on what they saw on TV and in Movies.
11 years ago at 2:57 pmIf someone wants to put there face in another man’s private area for pleasure that is one thing. I can fully support that but being force to do that is disturbing and NF. We don’t force our pledges to do anything much less something like that and we are running our campus right now.
11 years ago at 3:09 pmAre you suggesting that you don’t haze at all? Gay-zing, NF. Complete lack of hazing, also NF.
11 years ago at 6:46 pmConsidering the source, do you think the list might be based more on rumor than fact? There’s all sorts of crazy rumors about hazing that is totally false.
11 years ago at 3:10 pmA good bit of this is based off of here-say. A lot of these rumors were started twenty years or more at Young Harris and have floated around ever since. Honestly the rumors are only being questioned now because people are more willing to believe rumor over fact when the word hazing is involved which is unfortunate considering how many lives are about to be ruined and jobs terminated over here-say.
11 years ago at 11:56 pmIt’s hearsay, dipshit. Go do your elephant crawl through traffic.
11 years ago at 1:24 pm