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Abstract: 

For a few years, it seemed that abusive affiliation was being tamed on many campuses. If we saw it, it seemed like a kinder, gentler version—hazing light. Campuses cracked down, and hazing went underground. Fraternity and sorority nationals clamped down, too, and fought back, encouraging us to view abusive affiliation more broadly, as something that affected many campus organizations, including bands, secret societies, and ROTC groups, in addition to fraternities and sororities. Hazing is back, and now all we have to show for it are policies so constitutionally overbroad that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (F.I.R.E.; www.thefire.org) has easy pickings. Internet sites like www.BadJocks.comhave drawn public attention to this problem once again.

Keywords: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (F.I.R.E.); hazing;

Affiliations:  1: Editor.