2 Moons The Beginning

There Is A New Head Hazer?

     Forth was sitting in the hazer's meeting room with his two best friends starring back at the 5th year head hazer, Kongpob Suthiluck and members of his hazing team and the 4th year hazing team. They were just informed that the current Head Hazer and the majority of his team had been suspended or in the case of the Head Hazer expelled and arrested.

     Only one team member was still on campus and only because he had been away for the past month due to a family emergency. He had been banned from hazing activity due to the harsh treatment of the Freshman during his absence along with the rest of the third years.

     Forth felt that there was more to the story that went unsaid, but that was all that was being offered as an explanation. For starters someone who was removed as Head Hazer and expelled from the University and was being escorted off campus in handcuffs surrounded by police, his suspended team members and campus security leads one to believe that there is more.

     Rubbing both hands down his face, Kongpob sighs and looks at his juniors. "Guys...this is a mess. We all had to go to the President's office and were questioned for hours. We then had to beg him not to cancel SOTUS and to give us ONE chance to redeem our reputation. How we have come to this point none of us know."

     Forth thinks to himself, I know what has been happening and am not surprised that he has been expelled. What I don't understand is why we are here.

     The rest of the hazers in the room shake their heads in agreement. Wad leans forward and rests his arms on the table then addresses the juniors in front of him, "We have asked you three here today because we want you to take over the Hazing Team." He raises his hand to stop the questions he can see about to be thrown at him. "Hear us out first. We will answer any questions once we are through."

     "We have heard from all years that you three exemplify what SOTUS stands for. Seniority, Order, Tradition, Unity, and Spirit are the backbone of every Engineer who has passed through this University. How we could have come to this point is beyond all of our imaginings." Oak states while motioning to all of the hazers in the room.

    "President T has determined that we have this one chance to redeem the SOTUS system at  our University. If we cannot, we will have lost years of tradition and respect from all of our seniors. We, your Senior Hazers are asking you to help us save our SOTUS." Aim finishes.

     "What do you say?" Kongpob brings the attention of the boys back to the beginning. "Will you help us?"

     Forth looks at the Senior Hazers present in the room and then looks at his friends. Both Park and Lam give him a small nod. He then turns back to Kongpob.

     "We accept. We knew that the third years were being overly harsh with the treatment of the Freshmen and even the second year students. We also know that there is more than what you are telling us. We are glad that they have been removed." Forth once again looks at his friends and then turns back to his seniors.

     "Now the question is, how do we bring it back? How do we win back the respect and trust of the Freshmen? Also, how do we have them continue with the SOTUS activities?" Forth asks while leaning forward and resting his elbows on the table in front of him.

     Kongpob smiles at his juniors. "You win them back by being you. As we have stated, you three exemplify what SOTUS is supposed to be. Yes, you will have to hand out punishments because," Kong laughs to himself, "we both know there is that one person in every group that wants to be the hero."

     Everyone laughs then because they know that the two head hazers in the room are that person from their respective year.

     Kongpob smiles thinking of his own journey through the SOTUS system and how he met his Sun and the friends sitting at the table with him now. He then looks at the three boys sitting in front of him. The whole time he has been rubbing the gear dangling from his wrist unknowingly.