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Originally Posted by PrettyBoy
DSTCHAOS, you're absolutely correct. There is a lot of that going on today. There are members of glos who are not financial, but yet at the same time are using the organization for it's benefits. That's wrong. Now, yes I am grown and away from college, but I go back every year for Homecoming, because I am very close not only to my sands, but the rest of the brothers at that chapter. When we come back for homecoming, we go back to some of the places where our pledging sessions took place. We sing some of the scroller chants we had to sing when we were on line, and we get emotional doing this. It's a bond I can't explain. These places are very sentimental to us. Are there brothers in my fraternity who didn't pledge and were initiated the new, "legal" and correct way? Yes, and I still accept them as my brothers, because it's not what you do to get in, but what you do once you're in. I pledged 16 weeks the old way and I'm proud of that, I'm also financial as well. I think since I worked very hard to earn my letters, I love it that much more. We sacrificed a lot for each other on line, and I would do the same for a brother today. I know a lot of Greeks don't agree with my opinion on the way I think pledging should still be, but like you said, it's a matter of opinion, and yes, I do wish things were still done like they used to be.
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I have to agree with DSTChaos
. Much of this sounds like you are just walking down memory lane.
I came in during the time of the 'old' way - when above ground hazing was very much accepted, and expected. For me, all the way through until initiation night!!!
What I never understood about the 'old' way then and to this day - does it make you more of a brother / sister just because you got your @$$ beaten for 16 weeks? (Not saying that you did, but I know of those who did.) Honestly, if someone beat me for that long, the last thing I would want to do is call him / her family. Unless, it is a dysfunctional family.
