Hazing

Hazing is a widespread, far-reaching practice fueled by tradition, secrecy, groupthink, power, and the desire to belong in fraternities and sororities on college campuses and throughout institutions across the U.S. Through the voices of hazing survivors, family members, perpetrators, and scholars, Hazing reveals a variety of underground rituals that are abusive, and sometimes deadly. Reckoning with his own traumatic experiences as both a hazing survivor and perpetrator, filmmaker Byron Hurt embarks on a deeply personal journey beyond his fraternity, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., to understand the intersecting roles that power, gender, race, dominance, and control play in the violent lengths college students and others will go to fit in.