Innocent fun loses to officials' fears
Friday, October 24, 2003
Here's how the initiation ritual - a long tradition based in pure humor - works. The varsity members of the girls volleyball team send the junior varsity players to guard the gym doors so no one will enter. And then the varsity girls tell the freshmen girls they have a new drill to practice. As each freshman runs to the volleyball net, a varsity girl teammate slips up behind them and yanks their gym short down in a "pantsing" tradition that goes back as far as memory serves. The girls all get a big laugh out of the silly ritual and that's the end of that.