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First published in ''Magazine/ThrillingWonderStories'', (October 1942 issue) by Creator/IsaacAsimov. This story is a {{sequel}} to "Literature/HomoSol", written after "Literature/TheImaginary" but published a month beforehand.
Two sophomores from Arcturus University, the most prestigious college on the planet Eron, are fighting off the boredom of summer vacation courses. Myron Tubal, of Arcturus System, and Bill Sefan, from the Vega System, are greeted by their friend Wri Forase, from the Deneb System. Forase is bubbling over with excitement; ten freshmen from [[HumansByAnyOtherName the Sol System]] have just arrived! It doesn't take long until Tubal proposes a [[WackyFratboyHijinx bit of fun to welcome the new species to Arcturus University]].
Albert Williams is the last one of the Earthmen kidnapped in the middle of the night by aliens unknown. Now that they're all together, they conclude that the only reasonable explanation for their being forced into the cargo bay of a spaceship is [[TheNamesake a hazing]].
The aliens drop off the humans during the middle of the local night in a dense forest, warning of the pre-FasterThanLightTravel natives in the area. They leave the Earthmen with wood and weapons, but don’t say how long they'll be left there. The aliens depart, and congratulate themselves on the hazing. Unfortunately, a badly timed meteorite breaks through the shields and damages the spaceship. It takes several days to fully effect repairs and they make haste to return to the humans, but eight days have passed since they were left.
The HumanoidAliens land the ship and search in embarrassment for clues about what happened to the Earthmen left behind.
"The Hazing" was republished three times; ''Literature/TheEarlyAsimov'' (1972), ''{{Magazine/Urania}}'' (issue #629, October 1973), and ''Literature/TheCompleteStoriesVolume2'' (1992).
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!!"The Hazing" provides examples of:
* AlienNonInterferenceClause: The galactic government maintains rules where communication and travel into systems where HumanoidAliens don't have FasterThanLightTravel is forbidden. Myron Tubal convinces the other two aliens to help him kidnap the ten humans from Earth and drop them off in Spica System, a nearby region where a pre-FasterTHanLightTravel species is located, as a [[WackyFratboyHijinks way to welcome the new humanoids to Arcturus]].
* ContinuityNod: Wri Forase excitedly tries to tell his college buddies about the [[HumanityIsInsane strange psychology exhibited by humans of Earth]]. Because this story was printed in a different magazine compared to "Literature/HomoSol", it was important to reference the difficulty in convincing Earth to join the [[GalacticSuperpower galactic council]].
* FeaturelessPlaneOfDisembodiedDialogue: While the HumanoidAliens are given some basic descriptors, none of the humans are given physical distinguishing traits.
* {{Feghoot}}: The whole story builds up to a punchline to showcase HumanityIsInsane, because despite advancing to a "civilized" level of technology, they admit that most of their species is still psychologically primitive.
--> '''Forase:''' "You screwball Earthmen! At least, this little episode has taught us all one thing."\\
'''Williams:''' "What's that?"\\
'''Forase:''' "Never [...] get tough with a bunch of nuts. They may be nuttier than you think!"
* GodGuise: While abandoned on Spica's fourth planet, the Earthmen convince a native tribe that they're gods, and that the HumanoidAliens who abandoned them on the planet are devils who need to be ritually slain. [[spoiler:Actually, Williams was just kidding about the last part; the tribe should let them take the imprisoned "devils" back into the spaceship.]] Unfortunately, the Earthmen have been around the natives for too long, and they need [[GodTest to prove their divine power]] or ''all'' of the college students are going to die.
* GodTest: While the natives of Spica IV are initially willing to believe the Earthmen's claim that they are gods, their failure to cure the chief's wife of her illness works against them. Fortunately, the HumanoidAliens who had stranded them on the planet are captured with a welding gun. Williams uses the [[RayGun welding gun]] to set fire to several of the wooden huts, intimidating the natives into worship again.
* HoldYourHippogriffs: The aliens use a few exclamations that reinforce their status as non-Earthmen, such as "Sizzling Arcturus" and "comet gas".
* HumanityIsInsane: The HumanoidAliens don't know how to handle pre-FirstContact civilizations, but the Earthmen claim to be very used to primitive psychology because so many people on Earth are primitive.
--> Williams grinned, "we have a certain amount of rule-of-thumb knowledge about the workings of the uncivilized mind. You see - we come from a world where most people, in a manner of speaking, are still uncivilized. So we have to know!"
* HumansByAnyOtherName: Williams calls [[HumanoidAliens the other human races]] "Galaxy men", in parallel to the term "Earthmen" for the humans of Earth.
* TheNamesake: Because this is the first group of humans from Earth to join the college, some of the college sophomores take it upon themselves to [[WackyFratboyHijinx create a new hazing ritual to welcome them]].
* NoFocusOnHumans: Like the original story, "Literature/HomoSol", this story starts from the alien perspective, but [[SubvertedTrope stops following the aliens]] when they [[WackyFratboyHijinx kidnap all ten college transfers, fresh from Earth]]. The idea is to give the newly inducted species a bit of a [[TheNamesake hazing...]]
* SpannerInTheWorks:
** Initially, the sophomores plan to leave the freshmen from Earth on the primitive planet for one night, but a stray meteor damaged their ship. After repairs and everything, the sophomores get back to the planet ''eight days later''.
** The freshmen decide to turn the tables on the sophomores hazing them, and convince a local tribe that [[GodGuise they're gods and the sophomores are devils]]. Unfortunately, the chief's wife dies around the same time as the sophomores are captured, and unless they can [[GodTest prove their divine power]] ''all'' of the college students are going to die.
* OneWorldOrder: ImpliedTrope based on one of the aliens commenting that the [[HumansByAnyOtherName humans from the Solarian System]] have a "world capital" called Earth.
* SwitchingPOV: The story remains in First-Person Limited perspective throughout, but changes between Myron Tubal and Albert Williams at irregular points.
* TranslationConvention: The dialogue and narration appears in English, but at least three different languages are recognized as being used based on mutual unintelligibility. The Earth words "god" and "devil" don't translate to Galactic, and the sophomores use a different language aboard ship to hide their conversation from the freshmen from Earth (who do understand Galactic).
* WackyFratboyHijinx: Three sophomores at Arcturus University decide that the best way to welcome the first group of humans from Earth is to put them through a [[TheNamesake hazing ritual]]. To their surprise, the humans turn the tables around and haze ''them'', but because everyone was using primitive sapients for danger, [[SpannerInTheWorks they didn't react as expected]], and all of the college students have to run back to the ship to escape.
* XenoFiction: Most of the story occurs from the perspective of the alien sophomores, [[SwitchingPOV it changes between the sophomore Myron Tubal and freshman Albert Williams]] while the three alien sophomores try to pull [[WackyFratboyHijinx the greatest hazing ever]] on the ten human freshmen.
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Two sophomores from Arcturus University, the most prestigious college on the planet Eron, are fighting off the boredom of summer vacation courses. Myron Tubal, of Arcturus System, and Bill Sefan, from the Vega System, are greeted by their friend Wri Forase, from the Deneb System. Forase is bubbling over with excitement; ten freshmen from [[HumansByAnyOtherName the Sol System]] have just arrived! It doesn't take long until Tubal proposes a [[WackyFratboyHijinx bit of fun to welcome the new species to Arcturus University]].
Albert Williams is the last one of the Earthmen kidnapped in the middle of the night by aliens unknown. Now that they're all together, they conclude that the only reasonable explanation for their being forced into the cargo bay of a spaceship is [[TheNamesake a hazing]].
The aliens drop off the humans during the middle of the local night in a dense forest, warning of the pre-FasterThanLightTravel natives in the area. They leave the Earthmen with wood and weapons, but don’t say how long they'll be left there. The aliens depart, and congratulate themselves on the hazing. Unfortunately, a badly timed meteorite breaks through the shields and damages the spaceship. It takes several days to fully effect repairs and they make haste to return to the humans, but eight days have passed since they were left.
The HumanoidAliens land the ship and search in embarrassment for clues about what happened to the Earthmen left behind.
"The Hazing" was republished three times; ''Literature/TheEarlyAsimov'' (1972), ''{{Magazine/Urania}}'' (issue #629, October 1973), and ''Literature/TheCompleteStoriesVolume2'' (1992).
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!!"The Hazing" provides examples of:
* AlienNonInterferenceClause: The galactic government maintains rules where communication and travel into systems where HumanoidAliens don't have FasterThanLightTravel is forbidden. Myron Tubal convinces the other two aliens to help him kidnap the ten humans from Earth and drop them off in Spica System, a nearby region where a pre-FasterTHanLightTravel species is located, as a [[WackyFratboyHijinks way to welcome the new humanoids to Arcturus]].
* ContinuityNod: Wri Forase excitedly tries to tell his college buddies about the [[HumanityIsInsane strange psychology exhibited by humans of Earth]]. Because this story was printed in a different magazine compared to "Literature/HomoSol", it was important to reference the difficulty in convincing Earth to join the [[GalacticSuperpower galactic council]].
* FeaturelessPlaneOfDisembodiedDialogue: While the HumanoidAliens are given some basic descriptors, none of the humans are given physical distinguishing traits.
* {{Feghoot}}: The whole story builds up to a punchline to showcase HumanityIsInsane, because despite advancing to a "civilized" level of technology, they admit that most of their species is still psychologically primitive.
--> '''Forase:''' "You screwball Earthmen! At least, this little episode has taught us all one thing."\\
'''Williams:''' "What's that?"\\
'''Forase:''' "Never [...] get tough with a bunch of nuts. They may be nuttier than you think!"
* GodGuise: While abandoned on Spica's fourth planet, the Earthmen convince a native tribe that they're gods, and that the HumanoidAliens who abandoned them on the planet are devils who need to be ritually slain. [[spoiler:Actually, Williams was just kidding about the last part; the tribe should let them take the imprisoned "devils" back into the spaceship.]] Unfortunately, the Earthmen have been around the natives for too long, and they need [[GodTest to prove their divine power]] or ''all'' of the college students are going to die.
* GodTest: While the natives of Spica IV are initially willing to believe the Earthmen's claim that they are gods, their failure to cure the chief's wife of her illness works against them. Fortunately, the HumanoidAliens who had stranded them on the planet are captured with a welding gun. Williams uses the [[RayGun welding gun]] to set fire to several of the wooden huts, intimidating the natives into worship again.
* HoldYourHippogriffs: The aliens use a few exclamations that reinforce their status as non-Earthmen, such as "Sizzling Arcturus" and "comet gas".
* HumanityIsInsane: The HumanoidAliens don't know how to handle pre-FirstContact civilizations, but the Earthmen claim to be very used to primitive psychology because so many people on Earth are primitive.
--> Williams grinned, "we have a certain amount of rule-of-thumb knowledge about the workings of the uncivilized mind. You see - we come from a world where most people, in a manner of speaking, are still uncivilized. So we have to know!"
* HumansByAnyOtherName: Williams calls [[HumanoidAliens the other human races]] "Galaxy men", in parallel to the term "Earthmen" for the humans of Earth.
* TheNamesake: Because this is the first group of humans from Earth to join the college, some of the college sophomores take it upon themselves to [[WackyFratboyHijinx create a new hazing ritual to welcome them]].
* NoFocusOnHumans: Like the original story, "Literature/HomoSol", this story starts from the alien perspective, but [[SubvertedTrope stops following the aliens]] when they [[WackyFratboyHijinx kidnap all ten college transfers, fresh from Earth]]. The idea is to give the newly inducted species a bit of a [[TheNamesake hazing...]]
* SpannerInTheWorks:
** Initially, the sophomores plan to leave the freshmen from Earth on the primitive planet for one night, but a stray meteor damaged their ship. After repairs and everything, the sophomores get back to the planet ''eight days later''.
** The freshmen decide to turn the tables on the sophomores hazing them, and convince a local tribe that [[GodGuise they're gods and the sophomores are devils]]. Unfortunately, the chief's wife dies around the same time as the sophomores are captured, and unless they can [[GodTest prove their divine power]] ''all'' of the college students are going to die.
* OneWorldOrder: ImpliedTrope based on one of the aliens commenting that the [[HumansByAnyOtherName humans from the Solarian System]] have a "world capital" called Earth.
* SwitchingPOV: The story remains in First-Person Limited perspective throughout, but changes between Myron Tubal and Albert Williams at irregular points.
* TranslationConvention: The dialogue and narration appears in English, but at least three different languages are recognized as being used based on mutual unintelligibility. The Earth words "god" and "devil" don't translate to Galactic, and the sophomores use a different language aboard ship to hide their conversation from the freshmen from Earth (who do understand Galactic).
* WackyFratboyHijinx: Three sophomores at Arcturus University decide that the best way to welcome the first group of humans from Earth is to put them through a [[TheNamesake hazing ritual]]. To their surprise, the humans turn the tables around and haze ''them'', but because everyone was using primitive sapients for danger, [[SpannerInTheWorks they didn't react as expected]], and all of the college students have to run back to the ship to escape.
* XenoFiction: Most of the story occurs from the perspective of the alien sophomores, [[SwitchingPOV it changes between the sophomore Myron Tubal and freshman Albert Williams]] while the three alien sophomores try to pull [[WackyFratboyHijinx the greatest hazing ever]] on the ten human freshmen.
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