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Originally posted by lauradav
New member exams are not just hazing, they are also a waste of time! I remember spending a lot of time studying for them, making sure I knew every last detail about each founder, etc. when I could have been studying for my classes.
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I'm sorry that you considered learning about your sorority a "waste of time" when measured against a lifetime of sisterhood.
That is part of what the semester of pledging is about, to help you learn time management. If everyone gets coddled and has things handed to them on a silver platter, maybe they will make grades that semester so they can initiate, but what happens the next semester when they are on their own and no one is holding their hand? I've heard people get through pledgeship all smiling and happy and then whine after they are active "this is soooo much work!" and go inactive because they can't handle the responsibility.
As far as pledge exams being hazing, I completely disagree. You need to have some sort of yardstick to show whether each individual has tried to learn about the sorority. That's when you find out who the rest of the pledge class carried for 6-8 weeks. One minute we preach developing personal responsibility and the next it's hazing if we ask someone to learn what are relatively easy facts about the org they will be part of forever. Come on, which is it?