One of the founding principles and the foremost aspiration of American college Fraternities were the construction a better and a new man. This idea of construction implied, directly or indirectly, a notion of an identity transformation. In Fraternity Gang Rape, Sanday R. Peggy inferred that a Greek initiated pledge undergoes a process, whereby he loses his old self to acquire a new one. This rebirth process evolves during the pledge period and ends with the Induction ceremony. In fact, the initiation rituals are a fundamental part of this process. In Black Haze, Ricky L. Jones describes fraternity initial rituals as rites of passages. The Oxford Dictionary defined the term as “a ceremony or event marking an important stage…show more content… First, in order to lose their old selves, the pledges are reduced to a feminine state through, forcing them to wear women’s underwear and diapers. For instance, in 2006 the police found some pledges of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity at the University of Central Florida, moaning and creeping on the ground wearing women’s diapers and underwear, as part of their fraternity initiation ritual. A more explicit example was mentioned in Sunday’s Fraternity Gang Rape. According to one Greek member’s account for his pledge ship period, after wearing diapers and underwear, the active members called the pledges “pussies,” “bunch of pansies” and “girls” and ordered them to clean the house. Then, they were ordered to take off their diapers, and remain naked in front of the other members. They were obliged to drink and eat baby food and many pledges ended up vomiting. The pledges who did not vomit were given a cup of milk mixed with hydrogen peroxide. After cleaning their own vomit, the naked and handcuffed pledges were taken to a basement, where hot wax was spilled on their backs. In the meantime, the other members were singing “die pussies die, die pussies