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Originally Posted by macallan25
Trying to explain things to you people is about like arguing with a brick wall.
Please explain to me how making pledges wear nice clothes, making them get to know every member on a personal level, making them learn fraternity knowledge, making them study, making them respect their house, and putting them in situations where they must learn to depend on their pledge and build some close bonds/trust is a BAD THING?? I really don't know of any other ways that I can put any of this. I'm beginning to think you have the reasoning skills of a 3 year old.
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Umm, macallan, that's not hazing. That's pledging. As a pledge for most GLOs one has to follow the rules set by their chapter's actives in order to cross into full membership. Everything stated above is done for a reason.
i.e: Wearing nice clothes instructs pledges to be about business when in public.
Getting to know actives: Well they're going to be your Brother or Sister someday so shouldn't the pledges get to know you?
Learning Fraternal history: Do you really want people in your GLO that don't know the ins and outs of your group?
Making them study: Time management and making sure that the GLO's GPA doesn't drop drastically due to pledges' low grades.
The respect thing: If the pledges respect the house, then they respect the people living there, and, if applicable the Fraternity or Sorority the house belongs to.
Learning to depend on their pledge siblings and and building a sense of community and trust: I don't know how socials do things, but in Cultural GLOs, pledges have to form a strong line in order to finish the pledge process. The line has to be such that it cannnot be broken by any means, no matter what happens during the pledge process. If anything happens to one pledge, everybody else on the line has to come to that pledges aid. That builds the sense of community I was referring to earlier in this paragraph.
We in the Cultural Greek community have a word for pledge processes that don't involve at least most of the above: "skating". And no one respects skaters, period.