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Originally Posted by MysticCat
I see your point, and I'm not so much arguing in favor of the word "earn" as noting that it can be used in a completely nonhazing context.
I actually don't think it's circular at all; it makes perfect sense to me. We just treat our letters the same way.
Not so with us, unless one wants to argue that anyone should have an idea of what our principles are by how we conduct ourselves.
It is so considered. 
Just curious -- would you say that you earned your college diploma through study and hard work, or was it an unearned honor bestowed on you?
Sorry, I just couldn't resist.  |
AS YOU WELL KNOW, MYSTIC CAT
-Here's the difference - anyone who meets the entrance requirements can enter my alma mater. Meet the graduation requirements for a degree, and boom! You get what you earned.
If my degree were honorary, it would have been given to me in recognition of my fabulousness and would have not been earned in the conventional sense.
While anyone who meets the Panhellenic requirements can go through recruitment, receiving a bid is an honour bestowed because of a pnm's fabulousness (code for top-secret membership selection criteria).
If your GLO does it differently I don't mean to criticize - unless you equate "earning" with "hazing", in which case, YES I mean to criticize. (General "you", not you specifically, Mystic Cat). If I have learned nothing else on Greek Chat, I've learned that there is more than one way to skin a cat (!), and if it works for your GLO, more power to you.