Freshmen Initiation memories/ideas

[rajkaran]

Hey all,

I'm not sure if this topic applies to non-collegiate teams...but what did your team do to you when you got onto the team? Any pranks? jokes? hazing (hopefully not)? partying? team ritual?

Reason why I ask? I'm just curious...I got onto my team late in the year and didn't really do anything interesting...but I heard one of my teammates who's from Africa was harassed about his medical records and immunization documents...hahaha. I'm also looking for ideas for this coming year to do to the incoming freshmen dancers.

Cheers,
rajkaran

 

[Govind]

we make them stand outside and approach them with the "scream" ghost masks and cloaks. after blindfolding them, we take them around and drive them to an unknown place, make them drink "unknown" substances and lick "unknown" things...we give them code names too so they do not know the other people who have been tapped for the team. we then chant in latin to make them official members of the bhangra world. they are then take to the middle of old campus and commanded to perform the audition routine for a crowd...

at least that's how yale secret societies work...

 

[rajkaran]

wow...that sure beats what I had in mind...lol

 

[kinnell]

I'm sure Isha P. was behind all the Columbia hazing. She has a crazy psychopathic side to her that's just itching to get out. Oh wait, it's always out. hahaha ;D

Other than taking shots, I cannot think of anything I've put my newcomers through.

 

[Velli]

When i was on our bhangra team, it wasnt nothing big, they had to learn a "popular" song of ours in around 5-8mins and perform infront of the whole team. they got it, they stayed.

also we used to be really hard and difficult on them for the first month or 2, i mean make you wanna cry difficult to see if they could put up with the pressure when it got down to the nitty gritty

 

[mafzal]

Funny as all that is, it's kind of mean. I'm a little extra-nice to the new people. Then as things develop we can criticize and yell, no problem.

 

[Meistro]

being thrown into a jacuzzi full of soiled water thats been sitting stil for 24 hours. Squamish 2006, none other than our beloved duniya/ava boys

 

[Nikhil]

you guys are disgusting lol

 

[Waleed]

For Geneseo we did something different every year. My senior year, we took the newbies out to the country and made them row a boat out to the middle of a lake in groups of 4 and do a few bhangra moves. Did I mention, we also gave them a bucket to dump out the water since the boat had a hole in it? ;D

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30418155&l=7dafb&id=16501305
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30418159&l=31323&id=16501305

 

[Mukandpuria]

LOL

yea you guys are disgusting

 

[Amit]

Haha, I remember when I heard about that Waleed. I was so confused.

 

[Arjun Barua]

we took the newbies out to the country and made them row a boat out to the middle of a lake in groups of 4 and do a few bhangra moves. Did I mention, we also gave them a bucket to dump out the water since the boat had a hole in it? ;D

That reminds me of this. Watch from 3:04 onwards:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlQOmO44_bA

Makes me wanna incorporate training like this into bhangra. Any creative ideas out there?

 

[Sher]

I kno its all out of fun... but the drinking 1s r pretty messed up in my opinion.

but some of the creative ones, like Geneseo r hilarious hahaha

 

[Waleed]

El oh el Arjun. I'll def pass on the idea to the new captains.

I agree with Sher on his concern. Asking the noobies to drink alcohol (especially in excessive amounts) shouldn't be used as a reason to allow them to feel a part of the team. I'm not picking on anyone in particular as a lot of teams do this.

 

[Ashqe]

we took the newbies out to the country and made them row a boat out to the middle of a lake in groups of 4 and do a few bhangra moves. Did I mention, we also gave them a bucket to dump out the water since the boat had a hole in it? Grin

That reminds me of this. Watch from 3:04 onwards:

Haha that video of the Karate Kid was the exact thing I was thinking of too when Waleed talked about doing bhangra moves on a boat in the lake.

 

[Meistro]

lol get jumped into the team. JKKKKKKKKKKKK lol that would be pretty ridiculous.

 

[Mukandpuria]

lol like a gang you need to get beaten for a min and still be able to stand after it....

 

[Harman]

ahhaha ms13

 

[Meistro]

being on an all guys team and being gangbanged to get in. lolllll JKKKKK once again!

 

[LaLi]

I think the first time i got on the team, they actually had a few initiation processes..This is when the team first started and it was just 6 of us. One of the initiations was when SAT pantsed me in the middle of UCR's tennis courts and i was there butt naked but luckily the all girls team and hindi film team that were practicing on the next courts werent looking my way.

Another initiation was when someone put a indian made Viagra in one of our guys drink and that was pretty hilarious as well lol.. (i wont mention names)

Everytime we get someone new, we usually resort to "weird alcohol" mixtures and test it out of them although most of them contain Crown straight.. One bad experience was when Dholi Deep got alcohol poisioning when our initiation went really wrong and the ambulance came to take him.

I think being on a all guys team, everyone tries to test you on how comfortable you are with your skin and if you are homophobic, good luck. There is a lot of cuddling involved for some reason..Its all out of love and definately something you laugh about whenever you think about it.

Thanks and i hate our gopher Sat ..