From stories submitted anonymously to the website hazedandconfused.com, describing the tasks reportedly carried out by undergraduates in pledging prospective fraternities or sororities. Visitors to the site are encouraged to vote for their favorite stories.

Pledges have to wear the hell mask and answer questions about our frat. The hell mask is a gas mask with the filter removed and a short hose screwed on in its place. When the pledge gets a question wrong, a brother pinches the hose shut so the pledge can’t get any air — until he is jerking, bucking, kicking — then lets it go and asks another…