25/09/2014, and finally... end of hazing in our institution! The undesirable practice of hazing does still crop up in the university and increases in terms of humiliations. The indignities to which the youngest students are subjected can't help to integrate, it's just a sort of fascism. They believe that they have to accept hierarchy just because. Because? Because what?
C.S.
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ReplyDeleteThey call it a way of introducing new students to the new school and make friends out of it. I believe at the time they have made wonderful friends, but is the way they do it the right way?
ReplyDeleteThere is humiliation, people cry and get hurt and I do not understand how this could ever be good. Besides all of that, we are obliged to participate and if we don’t want to, they make us sign a paper to show that we are not a member of the “university life”. How come is this fair? Just because we don’t want to be a part of the foolishness they try to sell, does that mean we are not a part of the student life?
I believe people do this because they feel like they need to be better and bigger and in a higher hierarchy than the first year students. They want first year students to know that some are better than others.
I believe there are many other ways of introducing us students to this new life. In stead of humiliation and making us kill our throats from yelling and ruining our knees from always sitting on them, it could be replaced by really fun games about our study and give us guides around the campus and introduce us to everyone. Why is this never an option?
Although I can, of course, be wrong about it being a bad thing. I just don’t see any benefits from it. I was not a part of it and I did not sign any paper – because I am entitled to choose where I sing my name – and I am still a student of UAlg, I still have a student life and everything others have too. There is nothing different about not being a part of it. So what are really the benefits of this sort of “introduction”?
Naomi, thanks for your demonstration!
ReplyDeleteBack in Latvia we always had some kind of "freshman welcome" as well, BUT I have never seen something like that as it happen during freshman week here in Faro.
ReplyDeleteIt was just crazy! Of course watching it makes some of us to laugh, someone maybe thinks about some kind of human rights etc.
In the beginning all of those painted students made me smile, but when I saw some girls and guys doing humiliating things, I just didn´t get the point of that all. Maybe that is why I didn´t go to the big parade, because I knew it´s wrong in many ways.
If we talked about time when I was freshman, the worst thing we should had to do is jump into fontain which was full of cold water. Either way these activities were only for few hours not for a whole week.
To sum up my opinion - Yes! There should be some kind of welcoming event for freshmans, but without offending each other, without humiliation and harming.