Why Does Frat Hazing Still Happen? Because Alums Want It To.

Even as a few fraternity-affiliated adults condemn hazing in public, in private they tell students to do it

Alexandra Robbins
GEN
Published in
8 min readFeb 11, 2019

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Hazing, as practiced in most places, is wrong. It is unethical, it is dangerous, and it is a crime in 44 states and Washington, DC. Yet 73 percent of Greeks are hazed, according to the…

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Alexandra Robbins
GEN
Writer for

Author, 5 NYT bestsellers, Best Nonfiction Book of the Year. New book: “FRATERNITY: An Inside Look at a Year of College Boys Becoming Men.” Reporter, speaker.