Eighteen Belgian students were found guilty on Friday for their role in the 2018 death of a freshman university student during a brutal and degrading initiation ritual and were sentenced to community ...

Eight current and former students at Bowling Green State University are facing criminal charges in the death of a 20-year-old student. Stone Foltz died in March after an off-campus initiation ritual ...

BRIDGEPORT >> Initiation rituals may have fallen out of favor with many organizations, but at Bridgeport Elks Lodge 714, the ritual that inducts a new member is a sacred rite that keeps members ...

CAÑON CITY, Colorado — District administrators in Cañon City suspended the varsity football team for two games following a criminal investigation into a student initiation ritual. In a joint statement ...

"Hazing is strictly prohibited," an anonymous female Greek member says. "I do have to wear a pin or I get spanked, but the pledge class voted on that punishment." It is unclear as to whether this is a ...

This article examines the use of the initiation ritual of primitive people, described in the works of Mircea Eliade, as a model for counseling cancer patients, giving both meaning and structure to the ...

It was a rite of extremely dangerous passages. The youth soccer players trapped inside a flooded network of caves in northern Thailand went into the subterranean system as part of an “initiation” ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Characterized by slit eyes, which appear as convex ...