Student Hazing Experiences

"As a new freshman on a band trip for the first time, I got my first taste of hazing. One morning, my friends and I were accused of going to some guy's room -- a room in which they found condoms -- the previous night after our assigned curfew. We never did went there. The worse thing was that the adults in charge also played along in the prank. They allowed the upperclassmen to isolate us and search through all of our personal belongings.

My friends and I were so embarrassed and horrified. After the upperclassmen interrogated and emotionally upset us, we were allowed to go downstairs to join the others for breakfast. Then, while we were eating we were informed that it was all a prank -- a joke. My fellow band members were allowed a little laugh at my friends' and my expense."

Mindy, 16, Florida