hazing

So What Goes On in a Cheerleader Hazing?

Seth Abramovitch · 05/27/11 02:36AM

Members of a cheerleading team from a high school in Washington state are suspended for hazing the new recruits. And what, pray tell, does a cheerleader hazing consist of in these tough economic times?

Bored Deputy Uses Taser on Colleague's Ass

Jeff Neumann · 04/13/10 06:31AM

A Florida sheriff's deputy has been reprimanded after he playfully zapped another deputy's butt with a taser, while on-duty at the Collier County jail. Cpl. Wilmer A. Arencibia says it was "a spur of the moment thing." [AP, YouTube]

Rutgers Sorority Girls Charged with Savage Hazings

Ravi Somaiya · 01/28/10 07:50AM

Ah college, a place where groups of girls can beat other girls savagely with paddles in a nightly ritual until they are hospitalized, in an apparent attempt to 'humble' them and get them to rely on one another. Related: who knew that 'aggravated hazing' was an actual category of crime? [NYP]

The Gawker Post That Cost a State Department Contractor $189 Million

John Cook · 12/08/09 06:04PM

On the afternoon of September 1, 2009, Gawker launched a wide-ranging, multi-front investigation into the hazing practices of a State Department contractor in Kabul. About an hour later, we published the shocking results. Today, the State Department listened.

Our Embassy in Afghanistan Is Guarded by Sexually Confused Frat Boys

John Cook · 09/01/09 03:18PM

Wonder what it's like to guard State Department facilities in Kabul? In photos first published by Gawker, security contractors get their kicks peeing on one another, simulating anal sex, doing "butt shots," and "eating potato chips out of ass cracks."

Sorority Hazing Scandal Continued: Tales of Grave-digging and Branding

Sheila · 04/30/08 10:41AM

In response to Long Island's <a href="http://gawker.com/385397/head+bashing-sorority-on-alleged-hazing-victim-she-punched-us-first

">Hofstra University sorority scandal, in which 19-year-old Courtney Holt said she was brutally hazed (the Phi Epsilon sorority responded that she was a mean drunk), a Hofstra alumn has written in. Surprise: the sorority is def evil, she says, and those girls are just as horrible as you might have imagined. "Although this Holt girl def seems like a psycho, a lot of the other information that she states is true... For one being Branded... yes they're branded with a three pronged fork to represent their three values (which is why they have a effing cow as a sorority symbol, and they always say 'love x3')."

Head-Bashing Sorority On Alleged Hazing Victim: She Punched Us First

Richard Lawson · 04/29/08 03:28PM

The New York Post ran a story this morning about a poor young lady named Courtney Holt, a 19-year-old Boston native (woot?), who is claiming she was subjected to cruel hazing rituals while pledging the Phi Epsilon sorority at Hofstra University. It's not a sorority, "it's a cult," she claimed. They bashed her head into a wall, they said they would "kill me and slit my throat." That sounds terrible. For reasons I can't quite go into, I once had a raving band of Long Island coeds trying to kill me, and it was pretty scary.* But! Not so, says the sorority. In an internal email sent out this morning to alumni, someone from the sorority claims that Holt was an angry drunk who was violent at bars, that her mother was a lunatic who is banned from the Hofstra campus, that she trashed people's rooms and called them "cunt." Dear me! Who's telling the truth? And more importantly, who's to blame for all these girls who have gone wild?? How about sororities in general. Or, even better, that filthy whore Miley Cyrus. That sounds nice and reactionary, right? Full ZOMG sorority email after the jump.