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Originally Posted by macallan25
I'm just giving some examples of some things that I think are necessary.....obviously i'm not going to sit here and tell everyone everything about what we do. I know the difference between pledge training and hazing. You can haze pledges without it being dangerous and emotionally distressing.
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I'll throw my two cents in here.
If you are comfortable with using the word "haze" to describe your brother/pledge interaction, I become concerned.
Having said that, I am not in any way advocating the no-stress instant membership that several inter/nationals espouse.
Where I do have concerns are around these issues:
1. The combination of alcohol and pledge events, especially "voluntary" mass consumption events.
2. Extreme physical conditions, whether it be pushups/situps etc, temperature manipulation, or extreme sleep deprevation.
3. Public events involving unusal clothing or activities expose the fraternity to ridicule.
4. Just from a practical standpoint, house maintenance programs based on pledges tend to have two results; the attitude of members tends to be that " I don't have to do any more work after I initiate" and that most chapters don't have pledges half the school year. Who cleans the house then?
Every event and action involving the pledge program should start with an agreement of what you want the the program to accomplish and then designing events that fulfill those needs. These events should be planned in the least dangerous way possible.