University of Michigan Suspends Sorority for the Most Boring Hazing Ever: Designated Driving and Scrapbooking!

Published on April 16th, 2009

Posted by SN in General

Flint Journal – April 16, 2009:

FLINT, Michigan — The University of Michigan-Flint suspended the Beta Sigma Phi sorority for hazing, but not the beer-guzzling, toilet-scrubing, head-shaving type of torture most might imagine.

The list of controversial pledge tasks included driving around drunk people, wearing gaudy name tags, taking tests, riding in cars blindfolded and being forced to scrapbook.

“The university has a zero tolerance policy towards any type of hazing,” said UM-Flint Spokeswoman Jennifer Hogan, who would not disclose details of the suspension. “It’s something we are always going to stand very firmly on and we want to send the message that any type of hazing behavior will not be accepted.”

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# 1 The Pirate said, on April 16th, 2009 at 3:45 pm

And I am sure you will be graduating Zero Tolerance Assholes Jennifer.

# 2 JimR said, on April 16th, 2009 at 3:57 pm

I think they could counter that what they were doing doesn’t fall under the definition of hazing.

# 3 Phydeau said, on April 16th, 2009 at 4:32 pm

Beat me, whip me, make me write bad checks.

# 4 AdmFubar said, on April 16th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

#3 you mean … Beat me, whip me, make me write on blogs?

# 5 McCullough said, on April 16th, 2009 at 5:49 pm

Will someone please tell me what scrapbooking is? Is it as boring as it sounds???

# 6 SN said, on April 16th, 2009 at 5:59 pm

“Is it as boring as it sounds???”

No, actually it’s much more boring than it sounds.

# 7 Phydeau said, on April 16th, 2009 at 6:00 pm

#5 it’s scrapbooks, Jim, but not as we know them (obscure old Star Trek reference)

The cut out little pieces of paper and add them to the pages where the scrapbook items are… terminally cute stuff like unicorns and teddy bears and little sparkly stars.

The people who do it are overwhelmingly women, that should tell you something.

# 8 Nimby said, on April 16th, 2009 at 6:10 pm

My sister does scrapbooking. It IS as boring as it sounds.

# 9 chudez said, on April 16th, 2009 at 8:12 pm

A “Zero Tolerance Policy” usually means “we don’t have anybody with the capacity to use their brains”.

# 10 Buddcar said, on April 16th, 2009 at 8:23 pm

Perhaps if they were to redefine “hazing” as “team building”, a much loved management technique, all could be forgiven?

# 11 gquaglia said, on April 16th, 2009 at 8:31 pm

Zero tolerance anything is retarded. Life is not black and white!

# 12 ECA said, on April 17th, 2009 at 2:44 am

JUST MAKE IT REQUIREMENTS TO join..

# 13 Rich said, on April 17th, 2009 at 3:23 am

Isn’t this one a couple of weeks late, in spirit?

# 14 Alfred1 said, on April 17th, 2009 at 5:33 am

Most boring blog…

With all the exciting stuff in the news…bailout protests…Government defining traditional center right opinions as “extremist” and vowing to spy on these americans who don’t like giving wall street bankers billions…we have boring posts like these…

If you can only post left loon (& boring) crap…I’ll have to go elsewhere…

Following the CNN/ABC/CBS/NBC/MSNBC template of ignoring everything exciting because it doesn’t venerate Obama is very boring.

# 15 Alfred1 said, on April 17th, 2009 at 5:53 am

On the Patriot protests I expected the usual left wing extremist spin diatribe against it…that would be better than just ignoring it altogether…

And the promise to spy on center right americans for their expremist views, like prolife, received no mention at all…

Lefty tyrants can rob us of our freedom…and you gents don’t even join the daisy chain chant to kill us…

you ignore it!

That is very boring.

# 16 Alfred1 said, on April 17th, 2009 at 6:28 am

Add Texas Secession to the list of exciting topics to discuss…

Personally, I’d like to see both Alaska and Texas and Florida be the repository of us right wing extremist pro life, pro freedom , pro free market countries…

You left loons and Comrades Obama, pelosi and Reid can have the rest…

We will then see who prospers….ACORN land, or us capitalists.

# 17 Alfred1 said, on April 17th, 2009 at 6:32 am

Oh…we’ll take any veteran extremist patriots you don’t want.

I can’t believe they keep citing T. Mcveih…as though the military taught him to make fertilizer bombs to blow up civilian buildings…

Homeland Security…now more worried about Republicans than Islamic Terrorists, are an embarrassment…you keep them out of Texas, Alaska, and Florida.

# 18 Nimby said, on April 17th, 2009 at 8:12 am

Alfie,
Please feel free to leave.
No, seriously. Leave. Freely.

# 19 Alfred1 said, on April 17th, 2009 at 8:42 am

# 18 Dimly said, on April 17th, 2009 at 8:12 am

Alfie,
Please feel free to leave.
No, seriously. Leave. Freely.

I know exactly what Gov Perry means…

My immigrant family left socialist Sweden, parents, brothers are naturalized…I was born here, but I am with them…I love freedom…

I don’t want my money going to ACORN slackers whose only job is to steal elections and force banks to lend money to people who can’t pay.

If Americans can’t stop the bankrupting of America by the evil triumvirate Obama/Pelosi/Reid, their decision to default on debts via hyper inflation…then Texas certainly should secede…its a matter of self defense…

I will gladly vacate the peoples republic of California and join the Texas militia to make sure you loons don’t sneak across the border looking for a handout.

# 20 The Monster's Lawyer said, on April 17th, 2009 at 10:15 am

Alfred – You’re one delusional asswipe.

# 21 Benrix said, on April 17th, 2009 at 11:24 am

I have to agree with this action taken here. Can you imagine a young woman with PMS being being forced to scrapbook?!? We coulda had another campus sh00ting….

# 22 Rick Cain said, on April 19th, 2009 at 2:10 pm

When scrapbooking came up, they just had to put their foot down.

# 23 a-frat-boy said, on November 13th, 2009 at 7:22 am

Is this truly the definition of hazing? Or is this activing using your resources to keep people safe, inflict creativity and imagination (which most adults do not have, look it up), and establish trust amongst the new pledges and those already inside the fraternity or sorority. If this were a fortune 500 company no one would be complaining. Aflac’s employees are forced to participate in team building activities on obstacle course, figure out scavenger hunts, and made to rub elbows with a team of people that they may not like. Would this be hazing? Or evidence of building a great company in which employees trust each other and their workers know they can relie on each other to accomplish tasks given by their superiors?
Just a thought…

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