Northwestern Women's Soccer Hazing

Categories: women, sports, awesome, news

News broke yesterday about some hazing ritual carried about the Northwestern Women's soccer team last fall. If you saw the story on TV it was probably without pictures, but in this day and age of the Internet and file sharing you had to know the pictures and/or videos were out there somewhere. First BadJocks posted a little article featuring just 15 of the 45 pictures taken that night. Through some minor diligence I was able to find all 45. If you are at work you should know there is no nudity, the pictures mainly show girls in t-shirts and underwear drinking and doing odd, embarrassing tasks. The "worst" of the pictures shows two girls faux-making out as part of some type of skit that they are shown rehearsing in other pictures. Another one shows amateur lapdances for members of the guy's soccer team by the girls being hazed. The girls in those photos are still just wearing the t-shirt and underwear outfit. All the photos in this link are presented as pages of thumbnails, which should allow you to view them inconspicuosly and then decide if you are willing to take a chance on the enlarged versions. (Due to the large volume of people trying to view the photos, the enlarged versions are not always available.)

As for the news portion of this story, the school has suspended the women's soccer program indefinitely while an investigation is conducted. The women's soccer season however does not start until August, so at this point the suspension is academic, and only serves to present a public image that the school is tough on hazing. Given the close proximity this story has to the Duke Lacrosse story, I would expect the punishments to be swift and severe. That's really not fair since the two situations are definitely not an apples-to-apples comparison, but I would guess Northwestern is looking to make some sort of definitive public statement that keeps their name out of the Duke Lacrosse story for the next 6 months.