Hazing and Sports

I just finished an interesting piece by Jason Whitlock on ESPN.com. In the article, he discusses hazing. What a hot button issue, especially on college campuses. I should clarify that I think hazing in most forms is bad, especially in the case of the Vermont hockey team. But the issue shouldn't be older persons condemning our generation for low morale standards. As Jason noted, the same things happened when he was a college student, but nobody knows about it as quickly because of technology such as digital cameras and facebook. Things on college campuses today are not worse than they were in the 1970s and 1980s. In fact, I would go as far to say that things may be better. Parents and administrators just find out about things faster than they used to. Maybe older people should take a good look at the ways they acted in college and realize that these 4 to 7 years (think Van Wilder) are times to make mistakes and goof up, and the real life can wait. What we learn at college doesn't come in classrooms but in our experiences and mostly our mistakes. So this really doesn't have a lot to do with sports, but whatever...