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I can see this topic is rapidly heading into a different direction than originally intended, but I have to agree with some of the last couple posts.....this "hazing" stuff is getting out of hand. Pretty soon someone is going to decide we have to eliminate rush altogether because it "separates the members from the non-members" and "makes the rushees feel uncomfortable." Welcome to real life, folks.....there are a lot of things we have to do in life that are difficult, uncomfortable, or sometimes downright embarrassing. College is supposed to be preparation for that real world. If we have to start coddling and babying students all over the place they are going to come out of school LESS prepared than they were before they started. I may get attacked for this next statement, but I personally don't have a problem with a little bit of what would be, by today's standards, considered hazing. I believe in earning your letters, quite frankly. Do I believe in making pledges lives miserable, making them feel like worthless scum? Do I believe in doing things to cause pain or injury? NO. But I think that there was an element of bonding that occurred during pledgeship that just plain doesn't exist anymore. There has to be a middle ground. If a chapter's pledge training/study program is so intensive that the girls can't get anything else done, then the program needs to be re-evaluated. But I went through a fairly involved chapter history program and I don't recall anyone having any particular difficulty. I don't mean this as a personal affront to LauraDav....I just am sick and tired of hearing everything get labeled "hazing."
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