Hockey Canada believes in a safe environment for all players and commends commissioner Dave Branch and the Ontario Hockey League for its stance on hazing this past week,
Quotes about hazing (16 Quotes)
I guess hazing has been around since Plato's time, but it does not make it right. It is distasteful to me.
It is essential that we continue to educate administrators, coaches, parents, players, staff and volunteers on the negative effects of hazing.
The fact is these young men screwed up. They made some poor decisions. They're still good kids, but, in our organization, hazing is hazing is hazing.
There has been a lot of suspicious, maybe hazing, deaths in the last couple of years-in the last five or six years.
Hazing isn't going to be tolerated at the university, and I know that's the mood of the organization at the national level.
That kind of behavior is not tolerated on our team nor will it be tolerated in our athletic department. Hazing and intolerance is not part of our culture at Washington.
Andover was like a monastery back then. We worked all the time. The hazing was ferocious-I still hate to think about it.
Any form of hazing must be eradicated from our league. I feel comfortable in stating that the activity which occurred on the Spitfires bus is not common and will never be tolerated.
Unfortunately, no tangible breakthrough was made with regard to crime in the army, where hazing accounts for 25 percent of crimes. Altogether, 2,609 servicemen were convicted of crimes of this kind.
I can tell you, in the past five years, we've seen a continued and remarkable decrease in risk management issues, hazing issues and all that stuff continues to decrease year in and year out. A lot of that is because the type of men we are attracting to our organizations are the ones who are looking to do well academically, who are looking to get something out of college beyond the party experience.
There have been a few more allegations than in recent years. The secret nature of the hazing process makes it very difficult. We don't always know.
We're very early in this movement to address the most common form of violence there is for children, which is bullying, and hazing is a type of bullying. Hazing in children is caused by adults, through modeling hazing behavior and responding inadequately when it occurs. That creates hazing.
Hazing is where bullying becomes most clear, or where it is most simply enacted, because you can really see the negative acts form a pattern and you can also see an imbalance of power.
Hopefully, this prosecution and the significant sentences that were imposed today send a message that hazing is a crime that has serious consequences for its perpetrators,
They knew this kind of hazing went on and they allowed it to go on for years, ... For them to say they didn't know about it is a bold-faced lie.