Student Initiations

The Agrics got banned from Newcastle SU when I was there as during their initation night for Freshers no-one was allowed to leave the bar, for any reason.

You had to bring your own bucket.
 
No, that's not normal. I would blame the students for not being man enough not to do something that is just down right stupid.
 
While I was still living in South Africa, a friend started at uni (think it was Pretoria, can't remember), and had to go through initiations of sorts just because he was living in Halls; he wasn't in any sports club or anything.

Got me quite worried that uni in the UK would be the same, fortunately that wasn't the case.
 
Our management school society has initiations. We all go to a local park and get to throw eggs and flour at each other.
 
I'd always thought it was primarily an American issue with initiation rites to various fraternities but apparantly not, I suppose I was vaguely aware that it happened in some UK institutions but here I'd thought it the preserve of the chinless wonders rather than the more 'normal' students.

Never been through anything like that and I don't expect I'd allow it to happen.
 
We had "initiation" parties of sorts. Never with that kind of malice, though!

Usually there'd be some kind of challenge of drinking as much beer as possible from the bottom of a funnel contraption.

I think we had some kind of game sat in a circle (probably the 21 game, where you count up from 1 in turn, and you're allowed to say between 1 and 3 numbers at once, you just have to avoid being lumbered with '21') - anyway, everyone got to add a bit of their current drink into a jug in the middle, and if you got '21' then you had to drink from it.

Oh, then we went clubbing.

A bit grim maybe but nothing on the stuff mentioned in the article!

As a student of the year above being part of the initiation for the year below - I felt like I had a responsibility towards the kids coming up. I'd like to think if any had been ill or really unnerved by it all, I would have looked after them. Somehow I remained sober that night!
 
I think that if you dont want to do it then you dont have to. I went through initiations at uni for hockey and it just involved a lot of drinking. If you are too weak to say no to something if you dont want to do it then you are going to run into bigger problems in life than initiations.

They say that people have died from initiations but im pretty sure that people have died when drinking outside of initiations. They didnt die from one of the things they were made to do but from drinking too much and choking on the vomit.

They cant stop them because people will just start to take them off campus and it will be more dangerous because there will be less people about to help them. Most students are pretty good at taking care of mates when they are too drunk.

Let people do what they want. Doesnt anyone feel like we are taking any sort of owness away from the individual to make decisions for themselves. If you dont want to drink then dont but dont blame your drunkness on someone else. Same as if your fat. Its not McDonalds fault its yours. They didnt force you.
 
The 'traditional' sports at our university (and a friends uni) all do initiations not far off that. If you join the Football, Rugby and Hockey teams that's what you expect here.

I've heard of people having to eat live goldfish, sticking carrots up their bums and having to eat them as well as the usual streaking, drinking til you puke etc. Nowhere have I heard people being forced into it though, it is usually an option to do the more stupid stuff.
 
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