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With two games left, the Central Bucks High School West’s football season was cut short due to extreme hazing. According to Superintendent David Weitzel, rookies were forced to touch other players’ genitals. With their heads covered with towels, they were also led into showers, in what the players considered waterboarding. Local police department chief James Donnelly said that the shower incidents did not necessarily constitute waterboarding. After originally determining that players involved had not committed a crime, Donnelly and police are reopening an investigation into the incidents, [...] Hazing in schools like Central Buck and Sayreville [New Jersey, where freshmen were sexually assaulted by veteran players] are part of a larger hazing culture in sports. A survey found that 80 percent of respondents were “subjected to questionable or unacceptable activities” upon joining a college sports team. And coaches and administrators too often turn a blind eye to players’ activities.
Hazing in schools like Central Buck and Sayreville [New Jersey, where freshmen were sexually assaulted by veteran players] are part of a larger hazing culture in sports. A survey found that 80 percent of respondents were “subjected to questionable or unacceptable activities” upon joining a college sports team. And coaches and administrators too often turn a blind eye to players’ activities.
AMY GOODMAN: What do you think is the most—the single most important action the United States can take? And what about its role over the years? What is its interest here? NOAM CHOMSKY: Well, one important action that the United States could take is to live up to its own laws. Of course, it would be nice if it lived up to international law, but maybe that’s too much to ask, but live up to its own laws. And there are several. And here, incidentally, I have in mind advice to activists also, who I think ought to be organizing and educating in this direction.
NOAM CHOMSKY: Well, one important action that the United States could take is to live up to its own laws. Of course, it would be nice if it lived up to international law, but maybe that’s too much to ask, but live up to its own laws. And there are several. And here, incidentally, I have in mind advice to activists also, who I think ought to be organizing and educating in this direction.