If everyone hates hazing, why is it still a thing? Canadian university students are still subject to the often-cruel ritual of hazing. In a recent article, “How to break the vicious cycle of hazing“, Maclean’s examines the current state of hazing rituals in Canadian universities and the efforts to abolish the practice. The problem? Students who have suffered through hazing rituals may have hated it, but they feel compelled to inflict it on a fresh crop of students years later in a twisted act of vengeance. That’s why mature students go to AU, where hazing is so unheard of, the university doesn’t even have a policy on it.