This petition is to completely and once and for all stop hazing in all colleges and Highschools, yes hazing even happens in highschools, Hazing people is wrong and very dangerous, and it can be life threatening. There are many reports and cases where parents have lost their child or children due to hazing in colleges. Throughout history, hazing has resulted in several deaths and serious injuries ere are a few reports and cases of hazing in the past that could still happen today. Please I advice you read through these so that you can get a very good idea as to why i want to stop hazing for good. So that this doesn't happen to you or your kids. In 1975: Rupa Rathnaseeli, a 22 year old female student of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka became paralyzed as a result of jumping from the second floor of the hostel "Ramanathan Hall" to escape the physical ragging carried out by her seniors. It was reported that she was about to have a candle inserted in her vagina just before she had jumped out of the hostel building.She committed suicide in 1997.1978: Alfred University in western New York, student Chuck Stenzel died in a fraternity hazing incident from aspirated vomit while passed out following an evening of drinking at Klan Alpine fraternity, now defunct. He had been transported to the frat house in a car trunk along with two other pledges. Alfred University has since completely abolished fraternities and sororities. After Chuck's death, his mother, Eileen Stevens, formed C.H.U.C.K., the Committee to Halt Useless College Killings.1993-2007: in Indonesia, 35 people died as a result of hazing initiation rites in the Institute of Public Service (IPDN). The latest was in April 2007 when Cliff Muntu died after being beaten by the seniors.1997: Selvanayagam Varapragash – a first-year engineering student at University of Peradeniya was murdered on the campus due to hazing. He was subjected to sadistic ragging and in the post-mortem a large quantity of tooth paste was found in his rectum.2004: In Sandwich, MA two Sandwich High School (Massachusetts) football players faced felony charges after a freshman teammate lost his spleen in a hazing ritual. Apparently, a junior on the football team grabbed Garrett’s ankles, lifted him in the air, and then threw him on the ground at the beginning of a practice before the coaches had arrived in what was described as a “freshman beat-down.” The result was a ruptured spleen; the surgeons characterized the force of his hitting the ground as similar to that of a car accident. Due to the injury, the freshman will now require routine immunizations and regular antibiotics to combat the bacteria normally filtered by the spleen for the rest of his life.2011: in Andover, MA, two Andover High School basketball players were expelled and five were suspended for pressuring underclassmen to play "wet biscuit," where the loser was forced to eat a semen-soaked cookie.2011: in Florida, thirteen students from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University attacked 23 year old drum major Robert Champion on a bus after a marching band performance, beating him to death. Since the 2011 death, a series of reports of abuse and hazing within the band have been documented. In May of 2012, 2 faculty members resigned in connection with a hazing investigation and 13 people were charged with felony or misdemeanor hazing crimes. Eleven of those individuals face one count of third-degree felony hazing resulting in death, which is punishable by up to six years in prison. The FAMU incident prompted Florida Governor Rick Scott to order all state universities to examine their hazing and harassment policies in December. Scott also asked all university presidents to remind their students, faculty and staff "how detrimental hazing can be.2012: in La Puente, California, at La Puente High School; 3 teens charged with sexually hazing high school soccer players. 4 victims of ritual known as the "pole tradition", involving sexual battery and sodomy using a long pole with a sharp end. In some fraternities and Sororities you would be hazed by being branded with a very hot or very cold branding iron and the scar will be permanent. Again i ask you please sign my petition so that hazing of all kinds can be permanently banned worlwide

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