Stomp The Yard: Movie Analysis

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Several Greeks that I'm acquainted with were not fans of the movie, "Stomp the Yard," that showcases the entertaining side of Greek life: stepping. I couldn't understand why highlighting an African tradition of more than a hundred years could somehow be taken offensively, but their reasoning was that the movie did not explore the other factors in being in a fraternity or sorority. So, in my quest to learn more information about Greeks, without actually pledging, I came across some disturbing information in interviews and literature: hazing. I'd seen a couple of instances of hazing at my alma mater, and one sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), was offline during the time I was there, so I knew it did exist. At a campus event, I watched a Zeta Phi Beta member viciously smack the back of a pledge member who was covered head to toe in black and a black wrap covering her face so she could barely see in front of her. Friends of mine came back telling me how an Omega (Omega Psi Phi) member had his crutches snatched from under him and was told to hop, a common dance with this fraternity. But the appendix in the book "Black Haze" by Ricky L. Jones floored me more than anything I'd seen with my own eyes. Hazing is absolutely the ugliest side of Greek life that I'd…show more content…
In "Black Haze," Jones explains that the Dean was the person who makes sure that the pledges are not in danger. The problem with this responsibility is that the Dean is not present for every single event. On top of that, pledging underground has been around for decades, so even when a BGO is offline, there will still be people who want to be in that fraternity or sorority enough to risk the dangers of it. Unless the active members are willing to draw a line somewhere, this plan will never work. There has to be harsher punishment for harsh punishment
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