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Really interested to see how this all shakes out! I have a son who is currently an active member in a college chapter of SAE and let me tell you they are NOT HAPPY! They feel like they are just giving the membership away, without having to first prove your loyalty and worth to the Brothers. While I do not support hazing activities that are overtly humiliating or potential harmful to life and limb, I DO support a comprehensive new member period that includes learning all those tedious details about the fraternity! I don't think its awful to have new members do some chores around the fraternity house, I do not think its a travesty when a initiated (usually older) member calls a new member at 2:00 am and tells him to go buy him a Slurpee and bring it to him in the fraternity house. I do believe that some of these activities do serve to bond the group together and frankly to weed out the ones who maybe don't really want the membership that badly! I know many of you think Im nuts and that I am pro hazing. Well, to a degree I suppose that I am. But both my husband and my son look back at their personal experiences with so much respect...and some laughs. By the way....my best friend's son is a Lambda Chi at a private california school. Yes, they most certainly DO have a new member period and they most certainly DO haze.
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