<Li> Nearly half (47%) of students have experienced hazing prior to coming to college . </Li> <Li> Alcohol consumption, humiliation, isolation, sleep deprivation, and sex acts are hazing practices common across student groups . </Li> <Ul> <Li> 1495: Leipzig University banned the hazing of freshmen by other students: "Statute Forbidding Any One to Annoy or Unduly Injure the Freshmen . Each and every one attached to this university is forbidden to offend with insult, torment, harass, drench with water or urine, throw on or defile with dust or any filth, mock by whistling, cry at them with a terrifying voice, or dare to molest in any way whatsoever physically or severely, any, who are called freshmen, in the market, streets, courts, colleges and living houses, or any place whatsoever, and particularly in the present college, when they have entered in order to matriculate or are leaving after matriculation ." </Li> <Li> 1684: Cambridge, Massachusetts, a Harvard Student, Joseph Webb, was expelled for hazing . </Li> <Li> 1873: a New York Times headline read: "West Point . "Hazing" at the Academy--An Evil That Should be Entirely Rooted Out" </Li> <Li> 1900: Oscar Booz began at West Point in June 1898 in good physical health . Four months later, he resigned due to health problems . He died in December 1900 of tuberculosis . During his long struggle with the illness, he blamed the illness on hazing he received at West Point in 1898, claiming he had hot sauce poured down his throat on three occasions as well as a number of other grueling hazing practices, such as brutal beatings and having hot wax poured on him in the night . His family claimed that scarring from the hot sauce made him more susceptible to the infection, causing his death . Among other things, Booz claimed that his devotion to Christianity made him a target and that he was tormented for reading his Bible . </Li> </Ul> <Li> 1495: Leipzig University banned the hazing of freshmen by other students: "Statute Forbidding Any One to Annoy or Unduly Injure the Freshmen . Each and every one attached to this university is forbidden to offend with insult, torment, harass, drench with water or urine, throw on or defile with dust or any filth, mock by whistling, cry at them with a terrifying voice, or dare to molest in any way whatsoever physically or severely, any, who are called freshmen, in the market, streets, courts, colleges and living houses, or any place whatsoever, and particularly in the present college, when they have entered in order to matriculate or are leaving after matriculation ." </Li>

Many fraternities sororities and sports teams have initiation rituals