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I think this story takes the cake as, "Strangest hazing story Alf has ever heard".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/08/testicle-frat-hazing-wilmington-college-ohio_n_4240350.html

A Wilmington College fraternity pledge lost a testicle in a recent hazing incident.

According to an affidavit obtained by The Smoking Gun and other outlets, the 19-year-old was undergoing a battery of rituals Oct. 30 at Gamma Phi Gamma, aka Gobbler House, on the Wilmington, Ohio, campus.

Stripped naked and blindfolded, pledges were swatted with towels and shirts with the ends balled up in knots or with items inside. The affidavit noted that Tyler Lawrence was struck in the testicles and collapsed to the ground in pain, but that the ceremony continued. Afterward, Lawrence complained of intense pain and was taken to a local hospital, where doctors removed a testicle, police confirmed.

Up to 20 students witnessed the hazing or participated, TV station Local 12 notes in the segment above.

The outlet also reported that Lawrence said in an interview that he feels the incident was accidental. On Friday, school spokesman Randy Sarvis told The Huffington Post that he was surprised by the student's reaction.

Police are investigating, and the frat has been placed on temporary suspension, Sarvis said. That means the frat can't host any activities or participate in any activities as an organization.

In the meantime, the school is looking into the matter. "The college has interviewed some students and is conducting its own investigation while cooperating with law enforcement," Sarvis said, adding that part of Wilmington's response "will take into consideration how law enforcement proceeds."

1. Is that where you went to school, Alf?
2. Was that your frat?
3. Do you still have both boys?

Fortunately men can usually function perfectly well when "firing on one cylinder". Prosthetics are available to restore cosmetic balance.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Fortunately men can usually function perfectly well when "firing on one cylinder". Prosthetics are available to restore cosmetic balance.

Using these prosthetics, can you add a third?

I'm asking for a friend.

kronk wrote:1. Is that where you went to school, Alf?
2. Was that your frat?
3. Do you still have both boys?

1. No
2. No, I'm a Teke
3. Possibly, not sure though, I received tappers almost every day for a semester thanks to a bully in my phys ed. class.

Kilkrazy wrote:Fortunately men can usually function perfectly well when "firing on one cylinder". Prosthetics are available to restore cosmetic balance.

I know, but still, a strange ritual and an even stranger outcome.

People like that baffle me. One, why the hell would you ever treat another person like that? I get giving someone a hard time and having a laugh at their expense sometimes, but there's that and then theres this. Why anyone would even put up with it just to join a frat probably baffles me more.

Looks like he didny have tha balls to be in that frat.
And I hazing rituals. It is just another power play people use to exert influence over one another and it makes me sick.

inb4 BAN HAZING

Hazing seems to be very homosexual... is it intentional? Just seems a bit weird if you're a straight guy.

 Medium of Death wrote:
Hazing seems to be very homosexual... is it intentional? Just seems a bit weird if you're a straight guy.

Nothing wrong with being a little bicurious

Never understood it, the torture people will go through to be part of a club.

Well, Frats being alot of social connections later in life.
And you get a free house at school

hotsauceman1 wrote:Looks like he didny have tha balls to be in that frat.
And I hazing rituals. It is just another power play people use to exert influence over one another and it makes me sick.

1) Pledge, your ball joke sucked go back and come back with something better. Perhaps something about testicular torsion, you sicken me.
2) In 95% of college fraternity chapters hazing of this extent doesn't go on. Most of the time it's by calling someone a pledge and asking them to take your drunk arse to Wendy's*, or driving drunkards back at 3 in the morning and being told to ask the Manager at McDonalds for his phone number*, etc... The justification for hazing of this level is to build you up to be better (there are better ways to do this), and the "we went through it, you have to as well." mentality

Medium of Death wrote:Hazing seems to be very homosexual... is it intentional? Just seems a bit weird if you're a straight guy.

It's not whether it's homosexual or not, hazing in this way is to degrade a person, to make them feel like less of a person. The idea behind it is that if you can deal with stuff like this, you're "good enough" to make it in the fraternity. I mean god forbid the active members do team building exercises to see the test of a person's character (like a Ropes course or something)

Jehan-reznor wrote:Never understood it, the torture people will go through to be part of a club.

Again, most fraternities are not like this. As someone that entered college saying, "I won't ever pay for friends or go through hazing just to join a club." this doesn't go on because if you haze and get caught hazing, you lose your charter at the school, you face suspension or expulsion, or other penalties like loss of scholarship, fines, etc... These kids probably went through this "ritual" and the people that did it to them went through it, etc.. It probably wasn't more than 5 to 6 years old, so hardly a tradition, and they only did it because they thought it built the idea of brotherhood up, and created a bond between the members of the fraternity. They hadn't been caught and so much like college students believe, they felt they were untouchable. But again, this doesn't happen in most fraternities

hotsauceman1 wrote:Well, Frats being alot of social connections later in life.
And you get a free house at school

The biggest thing about joining a fraternity is not the fact you have consistent drinking buddies for your time in college, but that you have connections instantly with people you've never met. I wouldn't have the job I currently have if it wasn't for my connections with TKE (teke). The guy that told me about the job interview was is a teke, the guy that mentored me for my first three months was a teke, and a few other people around the office were tekes, all connections we made in college. When I go to gaming conventions with my big brother (mentor in the fraternity) one of us will always be wearing something TKE related, whether it's a t-shirt, hoodie with letters on it, a lanyard, or a hat, we do it because we like to meet other people that were in our fraternity. My first time in Philladelphia, I was on the south side with a few brothers and we were looking for Genos Cheesesteaks, we found a guy from a chapter in Louisiana, but was from Philly. He showed us to where it was, and event bought my first sandwich (since I was the only one wearing letters). I get asked by newer members (while I was an active member, and now as an alumni) why I joined a fraternity, and I always say, "I was a shy kid before I joined, forcing myself to meet new people I had a vague connection with (other fraternities and sororities) forced me to learn social skills I didn't develop in high school because I was a quiet kid. I still get that way, but I can force myself to be social in situations that would have made me tense up with terror.

And the houses aren't free . Many campuses own the Greek housing, and you generally have to fill the houses to prove that you give a gak about it, and it's rarely cheaper to live in the fraternity houses than it is to live in the dorms. You just know the donkey caves in the house

Edit: It's very tough to describe what it's like to be in a fraternity, but it's like being a DCM. You pay for the privilege to be associated with other people (like minded and not so like minded), you build relationships with these people, a DCM recently got engaged, and even though only a handful of us have met him IRL, we all congratulated him, because 1) we're not all donkey caves, but because we built a relationship of sorts with this person. In a fraternity you make really close friends, inside jokes are abundant, and in some cases the men you meet in your fraternity will be the groomsmen at your wedding, the godfather of your kids, and the pallbearers at your funeral. It's been quite the experience.


* - These are things Alf may have done while he was a pledge.

Huh. Well that is an escalation.

 Alfndrate wrote:

hotsauceman1 wrote:Looks like he didny have tha balls to be in that frat.
And I hazing rituals. It is just another power play people use to exert influence over one another and it makes me sick.

1) Pledge, your ball joke sucked go back and come back with something better. Perhaps something about testicular torsion, you sicken me.
2) In 95% of college fraternity chapters hazing of this extent doesn't go on. Most of the time it's by calling someone a pledge and asking them to take your drunk arse to Wendy's*, or driving drunkards back at 3 in the morning and being told to ask the Manager at McDonalds for his phone number*, etc... The justification for hazing of this level is to build you up to be better (there are better ways to do this), and the "we went through it, you have to as well." mentality

1) It wasnt meant to be funny
2) I understand that. I just dont like hazing in general. A high school around not to long ago had a hazing not to long ago. The players tackled the new guy in the locker room(H was naked) and held him down with towals on the bench and bet him, in their words, for good fun. And the "You have to as well" Is just a stupid argument and an appeal to tradition.

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
1) It wasnt meant to be funny
2) I understand that. I just dont like hazing in general. A high school around not to long ago had a hazing not to long ago. The players tackled the new guy in the locker room(H was naked) and held him down with towals on the bench and bet him, in their words, for good fun. And the "You have to as well" Is just a stupid argument and an appeal to tradition.

1) If it wasn't meant to be funny, then why did you say it?
2) If someone likes hazing, there's something wrong with them (hey I bet these fethwads liked hazing!) And I never said the, "you have to as well" was a good argument, but it's what you hear in most of these cases. I've had to put on more anti-hazing things than I care to recount, and the ones that I didn't have to help put on were boring as feth.

 Medium of Death wrote:
Hazing seems to be very homosexual... is it intentional? Just seems a bit weird if you're a straight guy.

Nothing shows people you are more straight than smacking a nekkid man in the nards.

Because reasons. Or something.

I think we both agree on the subject, I was just stating my hatred for that statement, it just screams "I have no Idea why we are doing it, But we are"

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
2) I understand that. I just dont like hazing in general. A high school around not to long ago had a hazing not to long ago. The players tackled the new guy in the locker room(H was naked) and held him down with towals on the bench and bet him, in their words, for good fun. And the "You have to as well" Is just a stupid argument and an appeal to tradition.

As long as everyone is a willing participant I have no problem.

 Gentleman_Jellyfish wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
2) I understand that. I just dont like hazing in general. A high school around not to long ago had a hazing not to long ago. The players tackled the new guy in the locker room(H was naked) and held him down with towals on the bench and bet him, in their words, for good fun. And the "You have to as well" Is just a stupid argument and an appeal to tradition.

As long as everyone is a willing participant I have no problem.

Technically that still doesn't make it not hazing... If a person does something and says they're okay with it, it could be construed that they only went along with it because they thought their membership hung in the balance of that act.

Hotsauce's example is less hazing and more bullying/assault... Hazing is giving one of the guys the towel and saying, "If you don't beat Jimmy, we're going to kick you out of Synchronized Swim Club and do this to you."

Hazing can also be seen in Full Metal Jacket with the sock party scene...

 Medium of Death wrote:
Hazing seems to be very homosexual... is it intentional? Just seems a bit weird if you're a straight guy.

Yeah I don't get it either.

Seems like some allegedly straight "alpha" types just can't wait to get other men naked and spank them and whatnot.

Dont most frats have a Paddle with their Frat name carved out of it?

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Dont most frats have a Paddle with their Frat name carved out of it?

Better to have it and not need it then need it and not have it

 LordofHats wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Dont most frats have a Paddle with their Frat name carved out of it?

Better to have it and not need it then need it and not have it

I get the impression you are a sexually diverse person from this thread, LordofHats

Would it be wrong to say it looks like they've really dropped the ball on handling this hazzing thing?

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Dont most frats have a Paddle with their Frat name carved out of it?

Not the one I went to. Of course mine is filled with a bunch of video game designer nerds.

 Sparkadia wrote:


I get the impression you are a sexually diverse person from this thread, LordofHats

Well it would be a shame to have all these hats and have nothing to do with them

 Asherian Command wrote:

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Dont most frats have a Paddle with their Frat name carved out of it?

Not the one I went to. Of course mine is filled with a bunch of video game designer nerds.

I envision an alternative approach, like being forced to play Desert Bus for 3 days or E.T on the Atari.

THE HORROR!

I never understood this sort of idiotic behavior.

"Hey, this is a fraternity! To join, you gotta get naked so we can all do things to you as you're NAKED."

Riiiight, because that's not gay. What straight guy would want to be part of a crew like that? Unbelievable. More money than brains, I guess.

edit - Before people tell me it's a degradation thing, I get that, but there are better - and funnier - ways to degrade an initiate than the 'get naked so we can abuse you' option. *rolls eyes*

 hotsauceman1 wrote:
Dont most frats fraternities have a Paddle with their Frat Fraternity name carved out of it?

Depends on the chapter really. Where I went to school we had (when I was there) 3 fraternities and 4 sororities. The fraternities were all (by national and local bylaws) allowed to make decorative paddles and pass them on to older or newer members. In my chapter we made paddles for our big brothers with our fraternity name, chapter designation, and our fraternities numbers. The local chapter of Phi Mu was not allowed to make paddles, but they made wooden plaques using one of the public symbols of their sorority and decorated it in their colors, with their symbol, etc... those were usually presented to the little sisters upon initiation.