{"id":22424,"date":"2019-09-23T16:47:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T16:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=22424"},"modified":"2019-09-23T16:47:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T16:47:58","slug":"initiation-ceremonies-deemed-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/initiation-ceremonies-deemed-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Initiation ceremonies deemed dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"

Initiation ceremonies have been considered risky by UK universities. Students joining these institutions have been asked to be on the watch out of initiation ceremonies as they are perilous.\u00a0<\/b>
\nFor instance, in 2016, at a Newcastle University\u2019s agricultural group initiation ceremony, Ed Farmer died because of excessive drinking<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Initiation ceremonies should be forcefully condemned<\/b><\/h2>\n

According to Karen Dilks, the coroner of Farmer\u2019s death, universities ought to avail first-year students with forceful cautions about the risks of alcohol consumption.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>
\nNewcastle University has collaborated with other UK universities in publishing vital guidelines about the possible physical dangers associated with initiation ceremonies. Moreover, coercion and bullying are attributes that have been likened to occur.
\nFollowing the death of Farmer at an initiation ceremony, his parents, Jeremy and Helen Farmer, have depicted their frustrations at Newcastle University\u2019s inactivity of stemming this problem. They also condemned the student union for continuously planning initiation ceremonies.\u00a0<\/span>
\nNevertheless, they are hopeful that the guidance availed by the universities can be instrumental in saving lives.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThey noted that if students were educated about the risks of excessive consumption of spirits in short durations, then many of them may be salvaged from being victims as was the case with their son.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

The guidance does not call for a ban of initiation ceremonies<\/b><\/h2>\n

The guidance availed by UK universities assert the dangers presented by initiation ceremonies. However, it does not call for an outright prohibition as had been suggested by some parents.\u00a0<\/b>
\nThe primary objective of the guidance is raising awareness among staff and students of the dangerous behaviors that happen in initiation ceremonies.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThe notion depicted is that an entire ban would not be helpful because initiation ceremonies would shift to private places, such as off-campus accommodation. This would make monitoring cumbersome.\u00a0<\/span>
\nOn the other hand, some <\/span>UK students are <\/span>experiencing mental health challenges as they have been compelled to wait for nearly twelve (12) weeks<\/span><\/a> for them to get help from their respective universities.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThis has proven detrimental as considerable concerns have been raised about how these students may become suicidal because of these delays.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Initiation ceremonies have been considered risky by UK universities. Students joining these institutions have been asked to be on the watch out of initiation ceremonies as they are perilous.\u00a0 For instance, in 2016, at a Newcastle University\u2019s agricultural group initiation ceremony, Ed Farmer died because of excessive drinking. Initiation ceremonies should be forcefully condemned According […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":22425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}