Alleged Sigma Pi hazing involved induced vomiting, a cage and anti-Semitic imagery [Hofstra]

The Hofstra Chronicle ^ | December 6, 2016 | Michael Ortiz

[C19fan]

Photo and video evidence allegedly depicting rituals of the Fall 2014 and Fall 2015 pledge processes for the Sigma Pi fraternity at Hofstra University show pledging members were made to chug milk and vomit on one another, stay locked in a small cage and kneel blindfolded while their bodies were covered in hot sauce, among other hazing rituals performed at an off-campus residence.

[C19fan]

Kick them out. I never understood how treating future members like **it suppose to foster brotherhood.

[dp0622]

I had plenty of friends still from High School when I was in college.

Told the fraternities to #### off.

[AppyPappy]

We had a lot of ex-military so you really had to watch them. They had inventive ways to mess with people.
I walked in the house one time and there was a pregnant stripper. I don’t know what that was about.

[OKSooner]

Hateful little f’s. Bring them up on charges. (Real ones, not the Nifong kind.)

[Mr. Douglas]

The Anti-semite imagery is over the top.

[Robert DeLong]

I doubt this is the norm. A certain amount of hazing is probably present in all fraternities, but this is extreme.

[Nifster]

Frat brother mentality. No explaining it. Rather like prospecting for a motor cycle club or joining a gang

[Nifster]

Don’t count on it.

When you give someone complete control over another all sorts of things go wrong.

[niteowl77]

A shirttail relative of mine was rushed back in the late 1960s, and one of the hazing rituals struck him as a bit degrading (and more than a bit stupid). Apparently he cracked wise about the childishness of it and was chewed out by some prigs... whereupon he knocked two guys on their asses and made his way out of the house.

He set the tone for my view of fraternities.

Mr. niteowl77

[ichabod1]

What. There was a swas tika but it wasn't even Nazi-style, crooked cross, tilted over on its side. It was an Indian swas tika, level with the page. It means good luck. I'm sure those boys were only wishing each other good luck.

[ichabod1]

It kind of is legitimized college gangsterism, isn’t it?

[Mr. K]

“hazing” used to be a tradition of forcing your new recruits to undergo something embarassing that everyone went through in order to bring them together as a team. Everyone went through it, so you voluntarily did too- to let the team know you were worthy...

Now, idiots have made it into some bizarre torture scenario for some sick amusement. Anyone stupid enough to let themselves be subject to that is not worth having as a member. And the fraternity itself is being run by morons- so not worth joining.

[PGR88]

I went to a Christian college that allowed one fraternity - a co-ed service organization that worked at homeless shelters, tutored English to immigrant kids, cleaned up garbage at local parks - stuff like that.

The Animal House stuff isn’t in my college experience.

[faithhopecharity]

And parents are throwing away a quarter million dineros trying to hang a degree on each of these little gangster rats? Better to toss the money in the East River and be done with it. The parents have already failed miserably. (Hofstra University - Alma mater of Bernard Madoff ).

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Hateful or not, it’s free speech. It’s the least objectionable of everything they were doing.