Skidmore College Cancels Men’s Spring Soccer Season Because of Hazing Incident
Skidmore College, located in Saratoga Springs, New York, has canceled its men’s soccer Spring season because of a hazing incident. The incident took place on November 30th on “Rookie Night.” Twenty eight students were disciplined, including 24 of the 28 members of the men’s soccer team. You would think canceling an entire season would be severe enough, but the school seems prepared to keep going into the Fall. From Skidmore.edu:
“In addition to our cancellation of the men’s soccer spring season, all athletes found to have participated in this incident will be barred from participation in any spring sport. A number of the team members face suspensions for significant portions of the fall season, and all students are subject to further disciplinary review as part of the student conduct process.”
What exactly happened is a mystery, but alcohol was involved. Though, as Skidmore President Philip A. Glotzbach notes in his statement, “Fortunately, no students were hospitalized or suffered lasting injury.”
Update: Skidmore has turned over a “packet” of information to the Saratoga Springs police department. Via The Saratogian:
“More of our focus will be on who was providing the alcohol and the off-campus properties where this allegedly took place,” he said, adding that early indications are there may have been members of Skidmore’s lacrosse team involved, as well.
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February 22nd, 2013 at 11:09 AM
Buttchugging, book it.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:11 AM
this isn’t the SEC, or a big frat school, small lib arts school don’t buttchug. What they do do though, is take dumb pictures and post them online. The downfall of every rookie party
ALso, when i took a tour of Skidmore, the guide didnt know where the library front door was, and spent 15 minutes talking about midnight naked ultimate frisbee.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:12 AM
has canceled their
you meant ‘its’
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:13 AM
ALso, when i took a tour of Skidmore, the guide didnt know where the library front door was, and spent 15 minutes talking about midnight naked ultimate frisbee.
Sounds like a world class establishment.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:13 AM
Another horrible soccer incident? Shocking.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:13 AM
They are the thoroughbreds? So this involved a horse, right? Gross.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:14 AM
$50 says there was a broom stick involved in some way
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:14 AM
/clears throat
“Shut. It. Down.”
//goes back to cleaning the bathroom
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:15 AM
I bet they all had to blow a horse, which sounds absolutely horrible.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:16 AM
Skidmore is actually a very good school, its just extremely liberal, and there isn’t much to do in Saratoga Springs
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:16 AM
I bet they all had to blow a horse, which sounds absolutely horrible.
Where does it rank relative to dick cancer?
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:17 AM
No, this isn’t the Vols were talking about here….. and it was a plunger, not a broomstick.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:18 AM
jpq an alum?
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:20 AM
$50 says there was a broom stick involved in some way
jpq an alum?
You newer commenters don’t know how easy you have it. jpq, when he was around, was the new commenter trainer. He’d make a man out of you.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:21 AM
I hate to say it but I was in a Fraternity, we got shit hazed out of us. We were the “cool” guys and got fucked with bad. I ended up fighting the president once I was a member for trying to pull the same shit.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:25 AM
I hate to say it but I was in a Fraternity
I was in a fraternity and I don’t hate to say it. It was a great experience and if I had to do it all over again I would.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:26 AM
ms, let’s hear you yell ‘thank you sir may i have another!!’
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:27 AM
Phi Astros Blow
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:27 AM
But being hazed and hell week is the best time you never want to have again. Dont get me wrong, those people really are “brothers” and I talk to all of them to this day
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:27 AM
ms, let’s hear you yell ‘thank you sir may i have another!!’
I can’t speak for all frats, but mine wasn’t like that. Sounds like Charlie Sheen Dopeman’s was though.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:29 AM
dopeman, later you joined a very different fraternity. how was that hazing?
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:31 AM
Isn’t it redundant to use both the “Soccer” and “Heavy Drinking” tags?
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:32 AM
I have always loved this T-shirt I once saw in Austin: “Join a fraternity, rent a friend.”
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:33 AM
Could be felching, too.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:34 AM
We were the lacrosse-soccer fraternity. Things we had to do
1. roundups – get every pledge over to the house on a random call at 2 or 3 in the morning. At which point we were lined up and yelled at, had to do planks and pick cherries.
2. A walkout – we had to kidnap a member in broad daylight and take him to another university. Which we did and some pledges stole a bunch of shit from Miami University. Also got stopped by police with guns bc they thought it was a real kidnapping.
3. Vietnam- they threw every condiment, beer, food from the kitchen on the floor and we army crawled thruogh it. Then we stood in ice. Then we cleaned it up.
4. Hell week.
/
these walls are thick
//
Phi Delta Theta, Indiana Gamma
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:36 AM
I got hazed like no other at KU both during XC and track, honestly, it was hilarious. Nothing that terrible, and nothing that guys hadn’t been doing for years. Fun times.
That said, some of those frats that make guys drink entire handles in like an hour and dangerous shit like that? Terrible. But ours was just humiliating and funny.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:36 AM
The kids who die in hazing rituals pretty much deserve it.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:36 AM
Phi Delta Theta
Not surprised. Phi Delts at SMU have to wear the same Wrangler jeans and Justin Boots throughout pledgeship. The story I’ve heard is that every morning the pledges have to go to the house before class to have the boots filled with whatever the brothers want to put into them that day and then the pledges have to walk around in the boots with whatever is in there (piss, expired milk, dip cup contents, etc) all day long.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:37 AM
I think ours started with the ‘Buffalo Run,’ which was quite literally running naked for two miles of a run on the outskirts of town. That was high comedy.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:38 AM
it just boggles my mind that you’d live for 18 years under house rules then when you get freedom you signup for more rules, these often more humiliating than the ones you just left
to each his owner
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:39 AM
I went to a community college
/all I got
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:41 AM
Man I wanna go back to college
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:45 AM
We were the lacrosse-soccer fraternity. Things we had to do
1. roundups – get every pledge over to the house on a random call at 2 or 3 in the morning. At which point we were lined up and yelled at, had to do planks and pick cherries.
2. A walkout – we had to kidnap a member in broad daylight and take him to another university. Which we did and some pledges stole a bunch of shit from Miami University. Also got stopped by police with guns bc they thought it was a real kidnapping.
3. Vietnam- they threw every condiment, beer, food from the kitchen on the floor and we army crawled thruogh it. Then we stood in ice. Then we cleaned it up.
4. Hell week.
/
these walls are thick
//
Phi Delta Theta, Indiana Gamma
all this…pdt, indiana alpha
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:47 AM
it just boggles my mind that you’d live for 18 years under house rules then when you get freedom you signup for more rules, these often more humiliating than the ones you just left
to each his owner
Vez, not all frats are the same. Mine was much more welcoming to pledges though there was still hazing it was mostly psychological and fucking around with us and pledges not getting the same privileges as brothers. Frats can vary pretty greatly even from chapter to chapter. So it’s not all Animal House but it’s not all Revenge of the Nerds either.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:47 AM
Never understood hazing of sexual nature. Like dudes sticking foreign objects up other dude’s anus. You would think someone in middle of sticking things up people’s butt would realize that it’s just wrong and they shouldn’t be doing it.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:49 AM
The White Frank White, are you a brother in the bond?
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:50 AM
Never understood hazing of sexual nature. Like dudes sticking foreign objects up other dude’s anus. You would think someone in middle of sticking things up people’s butt would realize that it’s just wrong and they shouldn’t be doing it.
I don’t either. Freud would have a field day with shit like that.
Our hazing was more like let’s blindfold all the pledges and drive them in cars in the middle of January to a field near Corsicana and let them find their way back to campus on their own.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:51 AM
and if so, what is your purpose?
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:51 AM
although we are separated by dist….fuck that i never knew that stuff anyway. yes i am. at IU. im guessing you werent at purdue, they dont have a soccer team. my guess is butler?
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:53 AM
Yes. Butler. The answer is “truth for its own sake.”
/
yours in the bond
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:55 AM
Vez, not all frats are the same. Mine was much more welcoming to pledges though there was still hazing it was mostly psychological and fucking around with us and pledges not getting the same privileges as brothers. Frats can vary pretty greatly even from chapter to chapter. So it’s not all Animal House but it’s not all Revenge of the Nerds either.
i do understand the benefit of instant friends and postgrad connections, and i realize the bad name greeks have from bad apples. but the rules thing remains, even if the hazing is not humiliating
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:56 AM
I had a bunch of friends that were PDT’s when I was in school, they were all pretty cool, but I heard some nasty shit they did to pledges.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:58 AM
A D3 soccer “spring season” = practices and a few friendlies. Canceling it is fairly meaningless, as I’m sure the coaches will still send out a workout packet and make sure the captains are organizing some practices.
February 22nd, 2013 at 11:59 AM
i do understand the benefit of instant friends and postgrad connections,
It’s not necessarily instant friends though. There were and still are brothers that I can’t stand. But I wouldn’t have met most of my closest friends (male and female) had I not been Greek.
Like I said earlier, it’s not for everyone, but it was definitely for me.
February 22nd, 2013 at 12:00 PM
When I was in school, my team had a ritual for all the freshman before spring seasons started. A jug of rum was given to the freshman and it had to be completely consumed. Then our heads were shaven. We got busted my junior year and the team was almost dissolved. Worth noting any kid that didn’t want to shave their head didn’t have to. The drinking was pretty mandatory though.
February 22nd, 2013 at 12:00 PM
I had a bunch of friends that were PDT’s when I was in school, they were all pretty cool, but I heard some nasty shit they did to pledges.
my favorite story to tell, a lot like charlie describing “vietnam,” is i had a senior take the industrial sized mayonaise jug from the kitchen and pump the thing into my mouth a good ten times. he says you can either swallow that or spit it onto my friends face who was standing right next to me. with tears in my eyes cause i was basically gagging on processed mayo, my friend looks over and, after an audible sigh, says, “just do it man.” so i did it. good times with vaguely homoerotic hazing.
February 22nd, 2013 at 12:02 PM
charlie, you didnt know pat martin did you? hes probably like 32 and he played soccer at butler.
February 22nd, 2013 at 12:26 PM
Please stick your hand in a fryer tonight
February 22nd, 2013 at 12:41 PM
Perish the thought that you could have met people otherwise.
February 22nd, 2013 at 12:42 PM
Pat Martin was in my pledge class. Good people.
February 22nd, 2013 at 1:15 PM
i’ve known him a long time. i played club and HS with his little brother. yeah, pat’s great.
February 22nd, 2013 at 1:25 PM
You from the Lou?
February 22nd, 2013 at 3:08 PM
sure am.