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before his prospective fraternity brothers could dig him out.
There is another striking similarity between the initiation rites of tribal and fra-
ternal societies: They simply will not die. Resisting all attempts to eliminate or sup-
press them, such hazing practices have been phenomenally resilient. Authorities, in
the form of colonial governments or university administrations, have tried threats,
social pressures, legal actions, banishments, bribes, and bans to persuade groups to
remove the hazards and humiliations from their initiation ceremonies. None has
been successful. Oh, there may be a change while the authority is watching closely,
but this is usually more apparent than real-the harsher trials occurring under more
secret circumstances until the pressure is off when they can surface again.
On some college campuses, officials have tried to eliminate dangerous hazing