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Originally posted by 33girl
And there is a BIG difference between "respecting" someone, and their having the same rights and privileges as a fully initiated member. Until you go through that final initiation ceremony - you are NOT a full member. Period. Make things as "PC" as you want, but if our sororities really believed that the minute a girl gets a bid she's equal to the rest of the sisterhood, we would initiate people on bid day instead of waiting 6 weeks.
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I suppose this was directed at my comments in response to macallan25, and I'm glad to be corrected if I have over-generalized.
But members of various NPC orgs have specifically stated here at GC that new members in their orgs do have all the rights and privileges of initiated members -- even including the right to vote and hold office -- except for participation in ritual activity prior to initiation. And quite a few more have stated that
anything that seperates or draws distinctions bewteen new members from initiated members is considered hazing. That's what I was basing my observation on.