AIBU to think universities should ban hazing and humiliation?

[Hopelessinhomecounties]

I don’t understand why hazing isn’t criminal? Hazing.
Here's what I've heard about:
❌ New hockey club members blindfolded and forced to drink
❌ Freshers pushed into drinking games and stripped of their clothes
❌ Someone forced to drink another person's sick
This isn't "banter." It isn't "bonding." It's humiliation, and at its worst it's torture.
In the US, hazing has cost lives and put students in the dock facing prison. Do we really want to wait for that to happen here?
Banning hazing would protect everyone:
✅ Freshers, who deserve to make friends without being degraded
✅ Senior members, who'd be saved from choices that could ruin their futures
✅ Clubs themselves, which should be about sport, teamwork and belonging
University should be where young people find their people, not where they learn to fear them.
British universities and the government: it's time to ban hazing.

the latest us case https://m.youtube.com/shorts/EfndlfdHSz0?ra=m

This is a chat forum, for humans, not a uni paper being marked. You don’t need AI to write basic opening posts for you, it doesn’t improve anything it just reads like AI and can make you sound less credible on a site like this.

Have you been to uni in the UK? Did you have this issue?

Yes I’d heard that and Leeds, Newcastle and Cardiff.

I’m not sure what you expect universities to do. This isn’t exactly a university organised activity! Young adults are going to do what they want. Parents should warn their kids before they go to uni.

University students are adults. What do you expect a uni to do?

@Hopelessinhomecounties What do you mean by "senior members"?

Your post, as do all AI "aided" posts, has the tone of an information gathering exercise rather than that of someone interested in other people's opinions on a personal level. It rubs people up the wrong way, as you're finding.

They are the university sports clubs. So they are affiliated with the university and represent the university. So would expect the universities to include it (which some do). The thing to do is more active disassociation and clear consequence's for students responsible if the initiation ceremonies are part of the culture (they are in many clubs at many places).
And a way for those safeguarding at unis to make it easy to report. Then students don’t have to choose between being tortured in thier first couple of weeks of uni or not doing the activity and joining the community they would have been part of at home.
universities are trying to encourage it www.ncl.ac.uk/wellbeing/physical-health/alcohol-and-drugs/initiations/
if you’ve seen the case in the US they just went too far. As did students here in 2016 when someone died after one of these ceremony’s.
But it needs to go further.

Yes.

Definitely happened in the UK 20 years ago, at both male and female sports clubs in my experience. I remember thinking it would really put me off joining! But at the time Freshers week also revolved around very heavy drinking, unless it was a Christian Union event. It sounds like that has changed a lot now so hopefully less hazing goes on too. Young people drink a lot less on average than 20 years ago.

They are affiliated with the student union and are completely independent from the university. I would be surprised if this goes on with the unions knowledge as they seem very strict with health and safety and there are always sober reps available at events my DC went to etc.