Ragging, can it be stopped?
@Professor2010 (20162)
India
September 13, 2011 4:45am CST
Ragging in educational institutions is so common, it has a nice basic concept too, and that is to know each other well. But the senior students at times behave like animals, they torture the junior students.
During 1980-1984 I was teaching in an engineering college, I was in charge of a hostel, the Principal requested me to stop ragging in that hostel.
I tried, but honestly speaking, I couldn’t; the seniors said, they are doing to juniors, because their seniors did to them; what a logic!!!!
Today I read in yahoo news
http://campus.yahoo.com/links/detail/ragging-victim-falls-th-floor-dies-injuries-at-sms-hospital-times-india-4b579d7e2b70060f550ce9da2d084ace0b969380265a1ec0d8b31f046207964c
Ragging victim falls from 4th floor, dies of injuries at SMS Hospital
JAIPUR: A 19-year-old girl was allegedly ragged by her seniors at a private engineering college at Bhankrota here. This caused her to fall from the fourth floor of her college hostel and she died in SMS Hospital on Thursday night. Her father has lodged an FIR alleging the college authorities were attempting to hush up the matter. However, the police claimed they were waiting the postmortem report.
A resident of Patna, Somya Singh was a first year B-Tech student at the Rajasthan College of Engineering for Women, Bhankrota on Jaipur-Ajmer Highway in Jaipur district.
[b]As a student did you ever faced ragging?
Should ragging be stopped?
Please share your views and comment on this.
Thanks in advance.[/b] Professor ‘Bhuwan’. . 13/9/2011
[b]As a student did you ever faced ragging?
Should ragging be stopped?
Please share your views and comment on this.
Thanks in advance.[/b] Professor ‘Bhuwan’. . 13/9/20116 people like this
10 responses
@163Mandolingirl (1052)
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13 Sep 11
I was 'bullied' at secondary school but not 'ragged' at teacher training college. It wasn't allowed. The problem with 'ragging' is that the principals permit it. If the leaders of the various colleges stated that it would not be tolerated in their institution, it would soon die out, and good riddance to this cruel practice!
@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
15 Sep 11
If the principal permits it directly or indirectly, than no body can help.
Best of luck.Welcome to mylot
Professor
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@rogue13xmen13 (14403)
• United States
13 Sep 11
Okay that is just wrong, you can make Freshmen the butt of all jokes, which many of us have, but teasing them and torturing them isn't worth it.
When I was a Senior in high school, we gave the Freshmen a tour of the campus and told them everything they needed to know, but if they couldn't answer you back or if they could not remember what they needed to know when they first got there, well, then they would have to continually ask other students until they got the right answer, and some students would give them the wrong answer just test them.
In college, it works the same way, only it's more like, "Use the map, you big dummy!" or "Just go to the milk carton building (the administration building)". We have maps all over campus, and the buildings are nicely marked. If you can't see and or navigate the maps and the buildings, then there is no hope for you because it really isn't all that hard. Now, you are allowed to ask as many questions as you want about certain professors because we have all had the ones we love and the ones we can't stand. That's a fact of life with high school and college.
There is no need to tease and torture students because they are already getting enough Hell from their professors.
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@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
14 Sep 11
Hello Papa!
Ragging has gone to a full bad extreme these days. This is something not good for anyone to undergo anymore. I did not stay at a college as I did so while I worked and had two kids too.
My son was part of a University ragging and although his was semi controlled it was difficult. I do hope they either put an end to it and or control it somehow.
Have a great night Papa! 
Ragging has gone to a full bad extreme these days. This is something not good for anyone to undergo anymore. I did not stay at a college as I did so while I worked and had two kids too.
My son was part of a University ragging and although his was semi controlled it was difficult. I do hope they either put an end to it and or control it somehow.
Have a great night Papa! 1 person likes this
@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
15 Sep 11
Too bad
Your son was tortured
Blessings from Papa
Best of luck
Blessings from Papa
Best of luck
@surekharathi (14146)
• India
13 Sep 11
Ohhh no uncle how sad really Govt. should ban on the ragging when I was in Nagpur I read the news in a big Engg.. Colleges some students enter into the Hostel and they start the ragging with two junior boys and they said to those boys for changing the cloth dancing without cloth etc.. suddenly a one boy run away and go to the Police station but till he return back with Police the college students beat that one boy and run away..so big news I cant explain fully... but I want to kill those boy who takes the ragging...
@sjvg1976 (41281)
• Delhi, India
13 Sep 11
Hello professor,
I am against ragging.
I remember when was doing engineering i lived in the hostel there and we were so much feared of ragging that we people don't used to come out from the room except for lunch/dinner or to got to college.There were so much strictness and control of administration for ragging then too we were ragged so badly for around 1 month
.In the starting it was bit awkward to answers posed by the seniors but then we were used to those weird questions.But those were the horrible days in and we used to cry every time when we were ragged.
I remember some fellows were so much upset by the ragging and did not return when they went back home.But ragging is done in most of the colleges after being banned in all the colleges without fear by the seniors.
I remember when was doing engineering i lived in the hostel there and we were so much feared of ragging that we people don't used to come out from the room except for lunch/dinner or to got to college.There were so much strictness and control of administration for ragging then too we were ragged so badly for around 1 month.In the starting it was bit awkward to answers posed by the seniors but then we were used to those weird questions.But those were the horrible days in and we used to cry every time when we were ragged.
I remember some fellows were so much upset by the ragging and did not return when they went back home.But ragging is done in most of the colleges after being banned in all the colleges without fear by the seniors.
@arya007 (306)
• Tirupathi, India
13 Sep 11
I feel very sorry for that girl.I was also an engineering student and I too faced raging a lot and I know the difficulties faced by ragging.the persons who ragged her a lot should be punished a lot and they don't know the value of the life.that makes the other to keep quite.
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@Professor2010 (20162)
• India
15 Sep 11
Thanks for sharing your feelings, what job you do now?
Best of luck.
Professor
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@tigeraunt (6326)
• Philippines
13 Sep 11
hi professor,
am not sure if ragging means hazing or similar to that. what we have here is hazing where students join fraternities and are subjected to hazing. hazing is either mental and psychological and also physical.
i remember my sister who studied in the ateneo who joined one fraternity (a very popular one). one day she got home almost not able to walk. she could not remove her denim pants all by herself so i helped her out. there i saw the bruises, really black and blue. what a horrible way to be able to join a group.
ann
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@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
15 Sep 11
I honestly don't think that this is something that can be stopped in the United States because there are so few adults that are looking over the college students. I was lucky in college that these kinds of initiation activities did not happen at the school that I went to. However, in the past few years I've heard a lot of cases where young adults end up dying as a result of different rushing type activities because they succumb to peer pressure.
@stary1 (6612)
• United States
13 Sep 11
I had to look up the meaning of ragging. I have never heard that word . I always used bullying. I don't know why kids have to engage in these practices. So many are hurt emotionally and physically and some carry emotional scars their entire life over this.
I think the only way this will stop is if more peole speak out against it and it becomes something to be ashamed of and looked down on way more than it is now. This needs to come from the kids especially thse who are the leaders in their group. I think peer pressure would be the most effective way to stop this..
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@PointlessQuestions (15397)
• United States
13 Sep 11
Here it is called hazing. Students do get hurt very badly. I've never had that because I commuted to college. It happens sometimes at universities where students live in close proximity.
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