The two Alpha Epsilon Pi members were charged with hazing. The fraternity was booted from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in 2015, officials said.
It’s the far right side of school life, where the frat is a hierarchical in-group. The pledges put up with it for access to the priviledges that come with being in the group and ones that go through with it have a mix of a) thinking it’s paying their dues now to reap the benefits later, b) don’t appreciate how much it might escalate until it does, and then have peer pressure and sunk cost fallacy driving them to continue, and c) the escalations might also excite them because if this is what they have to put up with to get in, if this is acceptable for senior members to subject junior members to, just imagine what the frat will let them get away with when they are full members or senior members. It’s like the “it’s ok for billionaires to treat my class like shit because I’m planning on joining them one day” mindset, except with an actual path to joining them soon.
There might also be some S&M aspects to it where some on the M side even enjoy it, though I can’t really relate to that myself so it’s only speculation.
To make it explicit, one of the benefits pledges look forward to are group organized parties where they can have easy access to women to try and sleep with them.
I remember reading an article about a frat that was on trial and some evidence was their emails saying things like “remember boys, assert, […], insert,” with like a guide to how to get women drunk and take them upstairs, it was really awful.
It’s also a way for them to reestablish the old boys clubs for the modern day, at least for some of them. The “right” people will get in and then have connections they can turn to for things like getting a job after school, and since there’s no standard hazing program, they can just go extra hard on any poor people or minorities that mistakenly join thinking they. too, will be afforded opportunities in the future if they put up with it. Then they can just keep raising the stakes until either the pledge drops out, or they decide that this person is willing to take enough outrageous abuse from them to be worthwhile to string along to keep as a future lackey/scapegoat.
It’s the far right side of school life, where the frat is a hierarchical in-group. The pledges put up with it for access to the priviledges that come with being in the group and ones that go through with it have a mix of a) thinking it’s paying their dues now to reap the benefits later, b) don’t appreciate how much it might escalate until it does, and then have peer pressure and sunk cost fallacy driving them to continue, and c) the escalations might also excite them because if this is what they have to put up with to get in, if this is acceptable for senior members to subject junior members to, just imagine what the frat will let them get away with when they are full members or senior members. It’s like the “it’s ok for billionaires to treat my class like shit because I’m planning on joining them one day” mindset, except with an actual path to joining them soon.
There might also be some S&M aspects to it where some on the M side even enjoy it, though I can’t really relate to that myself so it’s only speculation.
To make it explicit, one of the benefits pledges look forward to are group organized parties where they can have easy access to women to try and sleep with them.
I remember going to some sketchy ass frat parties back in 08-09 in Berkeley CA (no relation), it was like a cute lil date rape factory.
I remember reading an article about a frat that was on trial and some evidence was their emails saying things like “remember boys, assert, […], insert,” with like a guide to how to get women drunk and take them upstairs, it was really awful.
It’s also a way for them to reestablish the old boys clubs for the modern day, at least for some of them. The “right” people will get in and then have connections they can turn to for things like getting a job after school, and since there’s no standard hazing program, they can just go extra hard on any poor people or minorities that mistakenly join thinking they. too, will be afforded opportunities in the future if they put up with it. Then they can just keep raising the stakes until either the pledge drops out, or they decide that this person is willing to take enough outrageous abuse from them to be worthwhile to string along to keep as a future lackey/scapegoat.