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I definitely think that we want to make sure hazing isn't happening in Alpha Gamma Delta. A lot of time and effort is spent on educational programming and working with individual chapters to change their attitudes and/or practices if we see a red flag. We are very focused on looking for the little signs that things might nto be quite right and try to act on it very quickly, before it becomes out of control. In my experience, it starts out small, breaking the little rules and then gets worse and worse. We are constantly ("we" being the Volunteer Services Team.. the regional/national volunteers) discussing how to spot it early and get it corrected before something awful occurs.
Our current leadership, whether hazed or not, does not believe in hazing as a positive means to attaining sisterhood and feel very strongly that our goal with new members is to integrate them into our chapter as a whole, not separate them by treating them with less respect and humanity than we treat any other sister.
I can only speak for myself when I say that I was not hazed and actively prevented hazing from occurring within my chapter as a collegian. One of the main reasons that I selected Alpha Gamma Delta was because it was well known that the chapter didn't haze. I fought to keep it that way. I witnessed a lot of hazing in other GLOs during my time as a collegian and none of it looked fun or inspiring. We, as Alpha Gams, are charged to Inspire the Woman and thereby, Impact the World and hazing has no place in that mission.
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