This was at a private school:
"I think about it sometimes and I think about what it would have been like to be on the other side of that door. Obviously, this was not among the more sensational cases of kids hazing other kids. Some kids are killed in hazing rituals. Some kids are sexually abused in hazing rituals. There are worse instances of hazing in the world than what we did to Big Fun. And yet, all of it is hurtful and destructive."
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GJ - The WELS hazing system is the culture of the Wisconsin Synod. The idea is to train a bully without a conscience. Sometimes the most picked on become the thugs later, since it is more fun to be on the giving end of the swagger stick.
In WELS, they called one student Moon-Job because he was overweight.
The WELS clergry were horrified and furious when someone spread the story that I published their precious GA songs in Christian News.
They claim their secret hazing ritual - GA - has been shut down. (Like Church and Change? Hahahaha.) They had a GA initiation of six students this year.
One WELS pastor wrote this to me, "Every seminary has a hazing ritual."
Please, if you graduated from a Concordia or the Little Schoolhouse on the Prairie, tell us all about your hazing ritual.
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bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "Good Description of WELS Hazing":
I've never heard even a rumor of any hazing at either Concordia seminary. I know that some students who wanted to escape hazing at Mequon graduated from Northwestern College and attended Bethany Lutheran Seminary in Mankato. Others skipped hazing altogether and attended Bethany college and seminary. Still others attended Bethany college to skip Northwestern hazing and then attended at Mequon for seminary. It's confusing, I know, but you can thank hazing for complicating the path to the ministry.
The details about Bethany students are a bit hazy for me. The "Bethany Bombers" referred to those who attended Bethany Lutheran College for ministerial courses, and then attended at Mequon for seminary, I think. Bethany Bomber does not refer to the reverse situation, i.e., to students who attended Northwestern College/MLC and then attended seminary at Mankato.
Also, I think it was rumored that Bethany Lutheran Seminary closed in the 1990s and sent all its ELS students to Mequon, but then word got around after a few years that Bethany seminary never closed. Also, another rumor was that Bethany seminary restarted after being dissatisfied with the seminary at Mequon. Maybe the truth was there was discussions about closing Mankato seminary, but nothing ever came of it. This page of Bethany alumni suggests that seminary never closed:
http://www.blts.edu/about/students/blts-alumni/
