Author: Hank Nuwer

Here is the link to research

https://www.narcis.nl/publication/RecordID/oai:dare.uva.nl:publications%2Ff3bc64e3-8e67-40d7-b220-f2fce8bd04ba

Abstract Humiliation is an intensely negative and complex emotion. This dissertation focused on the determinants, strength, emotion relations, and consequences of feelings of humiliation in different contexts. In an interpersonal context (Chapter 2), we found that negative audience behaviour (laughter) during a humiliating episode increased reported humiliation. At the same time, positive audience behaviour (social support) did not decrease humiliation. In Chapter 3 we studied humiliation during initiation rituals in student fraternities. Contrary to the often assumed affiliative function of degrading practices (i.e., hazing) during such rituals, we found evidence that humiliation during initiations leads to more distance between group members. In an intergroup context (Chapter 4), we showed that reported humiliation caused by a defeat of the in-group predicted aggressive action tendencies towards an out-group that was not involved in the humiliating defeat. We also found evidence indicating that people who strongly glorify their in-group are more prone to feel humiliated about a past defeat of their in-group. This humiliation, in turn, predicts feelings of hate towards an out-group and an inclination to respond aggressively towards this out-group. Taken together the studies in this dissertation show that humiliation is an emotion that is particularly prone to reinforcement by other people’s negative behaviour and, at the same time, has strong potential to evoke antisocial behaviour in the victim toward others. Thus, unlike other negative emotions, humiliation is clearly dysfunctional when it comes to the formation and maintenance of good relationships, whether this is between individuals, within a group or between groups.

Hollywood and Hazing: A List in Progress

Here is a list-in-progress of all the films that Hollywood or Bollywood has published that depict hazing. It is far from complete. Therefore, please feel free to give additional movies (send to hnuwer@hanknuwer.com) and I will post. Report broken links. I’ll post in a more convenient place soon.

The Skulls: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192614/

The Hazing (Retitled Dead Scared): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366555/

Video clip: http://www.imdb.com/videoplayer/vi2415067417

Goat: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4437216/

Haze: https://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/haze

Trailer for Haze: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFoAST6r_QM

Fraternity Row: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_XCIZTft_Y

Moment of Truth: Broken Pledges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5nLo1zXo4g. 

Animal House: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077975/

Old School: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0302886/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Summer of ’42: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067803/?ref_=nv_sr_4

Ragging: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8fYxvN1SGNBJUtrgUelqYFokcyPXW4fG

Pledge: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6220752/

Burning Sands: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5826432/

School Daze: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096054/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Sorority Row: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1232783/

Twisted Sisters: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5090750/plotsummary

Sydney White: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0815244/

Dazed and Confused: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106677/

A Few Good Men: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104257/

The Lords of Discipline: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085867/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Clip from Lords: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIMwnP0qftk

Raw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_(film)

Jarhead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhyMO3IwPjY

Pledge Night: http://www.tvguide.com/movies/pledge-night/video/128609/pledge-night-official-trailer-24493173/

Full Metal Jacket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TNhS81w4bM

Excerpt:

STREETSBORO — Four Streetsboro parents are among more than a dozen people being sued by two band directors who were fired as a result of hazing allegations and their spouses.

Gretchen Weaver and Shane Ellsworth were accused by two students and their families of permitting hazing during July 2016 band camp. Among the allegations were that students were “bombarded with water balloons,” watched skits, and had to “stand at attention while being squirted with silly string, wrapped in caution tape, wrapped in plastic wrap, males being squirted in the crotch area with water guns, being awoken with loud music, the trashing of their dorm, and then needing clean up the seniors’ mess prior to boarding the bus for home.”

Also filing suit is Weaver’s husband, Tom Weaver, a band director at Nordonia High School, and Ellsworth’s husband, Scott. The couples filed a legal complaint on July 31 alleging defamation, intentional infliction of serious emotional distress, civil conspiracy and loss of consortium as a result of allegations of hazing or permitting hazing of students.

According to the complaint, Weaver and Ellsworth have been unable to find employment as teachers or band leaders and have been “blackballed” from participating from professional association events. They also claim they have required medical care for ailments caused by the publication of the allegations in addition to employment and mental anguish effects.

The complaint names more than 10 defendants including parents Matthew and Shannon Deevers, parents Jeffrey and Ginger Maines, Superintendent Michael Daulbaugh, Treasurer Catherine Rouse, Assistant Superintendent Aireane Curtis, Board of Education members Brian Violi and John Kelly, the Board of Education and John Does 1-10. The Weavers and Ellsworths are seeking a jury trial and damages exceeding $25,000 for each count, punitive damages, attorneys fees, court costs and “other relief as the court deems just and equitable.”

John Fickes, an attorney for the Weavers and the Ellsworths, said he hopes a resolution can be found because the directors lost not only their jobs when they were terminated by the district in January, but the relationships they had formed in the district as well.

“They lost it all,” Fickes said. “It was brutal and they are still grieving. I hope we can find a resolution that will allow everyone to move forward.”

The Deevers’ daughter was a senior in the band during the alleged hazing and the Maines’ daughter was an incoming freshman in the band at the time. Both families sent emails to the superintendent alleging the band directors hazed and permitted hazing during the camp, according to the complaint.

Bulletin: Penn State Athletics can’t stay out of trouble. Tim Bream has a contempt hearing slated for Aug. 30: so notes reporter Jeremy Hartley.

From a nobody to the sudden center of controversy in the complicated Tim Piazza tragic hazing case: meet Tim Bream http://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/crime_courts/article_9c0ff112-7eb1-11e7-aac2-134a60a24c0f.html

Here is the link to the Collegian

Excerpt

After District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller told the courtroom she would not be calling any more witnesses to the stand, the defense asked to call one of their own: Bream, the Penn State Director of Athletic Training Services and Head Football Athletic Trainer.

Judge Allen Sinclair sustained the request of the defense despite Parks Miller contesting the decision.

“I can’t deny you the right to question him,” Sinclair said to Leonard Ambrose, the defense attorney representing Joseph Sala.

According to Parks Miller, Bream’s testimony would serve invaluable in the courtroom as Pennsylvania law only allows the defense to call witnesses to the stand who would negate the crimes of their client.

“If he was there that night, we have the right to question him,” Ambrose said.

Holding the position of “senior house manger,” and live-in adviser, Ambrose said Bream knew of the events taking place at bid acceptance, therefore giving the go-ahead for “conduct that caused extreme indifference to human life.”

Ambrose said evidence shows Bream held a meeting with members of the executive committee to outline the events that the fraternity was planning — this would include the rush events that occurred in Jan. 2017 and pledge acceptance in 2017.

“It underlines the element of reckless endanger,” Ambrose said.

Parks Miller said Bream would not be able to diminish the crimes of the sixteen former Beta Theta Pi members, and would likely plea the fifth — the right to not personally incriminate himself — on the stand.

The defense pointed out that Bream was not easy to get a hold of today, as they tried to serve him with his subpoena on multiple occasions.

Private investigator Jeffrey Johnson took the stand to lay out the process he went through trying to get Bream to the the court.

Johnson obtained a subpoena with the purpose of serving Bream and was then escorted to the Lasch Building by Penn State Police. However, Bream was said to be “on vacation.”

While trying to serve the subpoena in the Lasch Building, the staff did not cooperate, denying to give him their names or accept the subpoena.

“I think he was hiding in the Lasch Building, so I couldn’t serve him personally,” Johnson said.

The subpoena was left with employees at the Lasch Building and an attorney at Penn State University, according to Johnson.

Due to these complications, Ambrose has asked the court to hold Bream in contempt.