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Originally posted by Heather17
Keep doing your interviews, collecting signatures and playing your games because they are not the problem--its a lot bigger than that. And some of us have been fighting it for a LONG time.
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OK, this is REALLY OFFENSIVE.
Doing interviews for both of my GLOs is not something I considered "playing games." It's a time to get to know your future brothers or sisters one on one, outside of a structured group event. Not everyone is gregarious. I would have never gotten to know some people if it wouldn't have been for interviewing because they were shy in groups. And not everyone has oodles of time to hang out at the house just waiting for sisters/pledges to pass through to get to know them "normally." Some people are very busy. And even before we instituted sisters interviewing pledges, it's not like the sister sat there and just spat out answers and didn't ask the pledge anything.
Getting signatures is not "playing games." It helps you to meet members of other GLOs and non-Greeks who are friends of your brothers or sisters. Again, not everyone will meet people at a big social - the shyer people will feel left out.
I'm not saying people should interview everyone in a chapter of 200 - that would be craziness and you'd have no time for anything else - but there should be a way to get to know at least some people one on one instead of just in an amorphous mass. In this day and age when we schedule "play dates" for three year olds, I find it amusing when people say well golly whiz, if you have a superduper new member program you'll get to know everyone individually without scheduling interviews at all.
At NO TIME did I EVER have to "perform" to obtain any interviews or signatures. The fact that some people used them that way makes me ill. But to punish all groups everywhere - and make no mistake, it IS punishment - by eliminating them is kind of like saying that just because the Penn State chapter of ABC hazed, we should shut all the ABC chapters down to make sure it doesn't happen again. (I feel Otter's speech coming on.)
Those were some of the best parts of my pledge time, and anyone who tries to tell me otherwise is full of shit.
It's statements like the above quote that turn alums off and make them wash their hands of their GLOs - when they're told that things that they did gladly and greatly enjoyed doing are hazing and the reason Greek life is going to hell. As someone so eloquently said in another thread, you are what you post.
