Hazing in Black Greek Organizations: How Can it Be Stopped?

Several Greeks that I'm acquainted with were not fans of the movie, "Stomp the Yard," that showcases the entertaining side of Greek life: stepping. I couldn't understand why highlighting an African tradition of more than a hundred years could somehow be taken offensively, but their reasoning was that the movie did not explore the other factors in being in a fraternity or sorority. So, in my quest to learn more information about Greeks, without actually pledging, I came across some disturbing information in interviews and literature: hazing. I'd seen a couple of instances of hazing at my alma mater, and one sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA), was offline during the time I was there, so I knew it did exist. At a campus event, I watched a Zeta Phi Beta member viciously smack the back of a pledge member who was covered head to toe in black and a black wrap covering her face so she could barely see in front of her. Friends of mine came back telling me how an Omega (Omega Psi Phi) member had his crutches snatched from under him and was told to hop, a common dance with this fraternity. But the appendix in the book "Black Haze" by Ricky L. Jones floored me more than anything I'd seen with my own eyes. Hazing is absolutely the ugliest side of Greek life that I'd ever imagined. In the movie "School Daze," Spike Lee brought a couple of fictional scenes where pledges leaned over, with gritted faces, and chanted lines after taking wood. In "Stomp the Yard," there was a quickly glossed over scene of the main character, DJ (played by Columbus Short), grimacing as he sat down in a library. I used to find these scenes amusing until I read "Black Haze" but now I'm just concerned.