Athletic Hazing Update 5.18.06

Richard Sandomir of the New York Times reporting on college athletes behaving badly:

The indiscretions of college students — whether it is binge drinking, cheating or hazing — may be old school, but universities now face the new reality that their students' misbehavior will eventually be exposed on the Internet.

This new challenge to college administrators was underscored this week when the Web site badjocks.com posted photographs from a hazing by the Northwestern women's soccer team, leading to the team's suspension. Yesterday, badjocks.com followed up with photos from freshman, varsity and club team initiations at 12 other colleges, complete with links to the teams' rosters.

Badjocks.com plucked and collated the often disturbing photos from webshots.com, a site where students post and share thousands of pictures covering a variety of activities.

"This isn't just a fraternity thing or something we should elbow ourselves and chuckle about," said Bob Reno, who added hazing photographs last year to badjocks.com, which he founded in 2000. "People are getting hurt."