21.   The government disbanded the unit a year ago after accounts emerged not only of the Arone killing but violent, degrading and racist hazing rituals and initiation rites.

22.   The proposals would ban hazing, including any initiation rites that involve alcohol.

23.   The shortcut led them to a gang of young men who had gathered in the woods for initiation rites and drinking.

24.   The statute defines hazing as making someone drink excessively or endure physical abuse as part of an initiation rite.

25.   Well, maybe it was an initiation rite.

26.   Yet Sita kept the change a secret and underwent the initiation rites into manhood, going into the forest with other boys and dancing with masks.

27.   Concerned for the physical and mental well-being of a youngster subjected to silly, and sometimes sadistic initiation rites by upperclassmen at top French schools?

28.   Five men were charged in court Thursday with the murder and assault of five boys who died undergoing traditional manhood initiation rites in the South African bush.

29.   Five men were charged Thursday with the murder of five boys who died while undergoing traditional manhood initiation rites in the South African bush.

30.   It was only the second time in history that the secret initiation rite had ever been recorded, officials said.