AWAKENED PRISON

Words are indeed a powerful weapon that can deceive someone with a mixture of bittersweet promises and believable truths of survival. College life is a suicidal stage for many, and vulnerability is an opportunity grabbed to drag more people to the curse. Fraternities offer benefits and support to their members, but some have costs that go beyond the value of money.

The past has hunted the present. Trust has been stained with blood. A forbidden prison that was once sleeping has been unlocked for the nth time. With this, violence has. escaped, bridging the gap between innocence and cruelty. Fear became known, and many lives have fallen. The prison must be destroyed, for it never aimed at justice.

Throughout the years, hazing became an integral part of initiation rites performed by fraternities in different universities. It has been a practice done to strengthen the “brotherhood” within the fraternity, develop respect, and establish unity and camaraderie among its members. However, the effects do not seem to unify but defy the rights of people as it is abusive, traumatic, and worse, threatening to the life of a student.

Hazing causes beatings to be administered to more vulnerable parts of the body. Internal hemorrhage and rib and spinal column fractures are among the harms caused by torso strikes. Air bubbles in the lungs, which can occur as a result of blows to the chest, are exceedingly harmful and even fatal.

Paddling, which is a beating that uses a wooden board towards the neophyte, has the worst but least recognized damage that could be inflicted to the body - damage to the kidneys. Despite the target part which is usually in the buttocks, fractures can be acquired from blows to the legs, and eventually farther up the body, it can negatively impact the kidney of the victim. Words are indeed a powerful weapon that can deceive someone with a mixture of bittersweet promises and believable truths of survival. College life is a suicidal stage for many, and vulnerability is an opportunity grabbed to drag more people to the curse. Fraternities offer benefits and support to their members, but some have costs that go beyond the value of money. Hazing impacts its victims through emotional, physical, and psychological distress. Every bruise imprinted by the blows of the paddle brings more than just physical pain,