Kate Hawkesby: How is hazing happening in 2023?

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Oct 10, 2023 · 3m

I’m just not sure how —in this day and age— we’re still doing hazing rituals at Uni initiations.

I know it’s huge in America, but like all the US’s bad habits, why’s it come here? It seems particularly prevalent in Otago. So far this week we’ve heard of horrific initiations, one involving biting the legs off a live duck, I mean I can’t even believe we’re saying that in a sentence it’s so barbaric.

The other one being where two students allegedly got told to strip down to their underwear only to be called “piggies”. It was reported they were told “to strip to their underwear and stand in the…