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Originally posted by DWAlphaGam
Random question (I'm not sure if this was answered in another thread or not and I'm too lazy to look for it): I noticed that DZRose had brought up the fact that pledge bracelets were hazing. I don't understand how making them wear a bracelet is different from making them wear a new member pin, like national GLOs do. Can anyone answer this? Thanks!
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I think the thing that makes the bracelets smack of hazing, is the fact that they are required to wear it at all times (except, of course, when they are engaging in "un-sigma-like behavior"), and to my knowledge, no GLO requires their pledges/new members to wear their pledge pin at all times. The pledge pin is simply the insignia that they are privileged to wear until they are initiated and eligible to wear the active badge.
At least when I was a pledge, we were only required to wear our pins to pledge meetings, and were encouraged to wear them when we chose to wear pin attire to classes (we couldn't wear it with jeans or shorts--had to be dressed appropriately). It's the "requirement" of wearing the bracelet at all times that is suspect, I think. I think they stopped requiring pledges to wear pledge ribbons at all times before I pledged--for the same reason...sounds harmless, I know, but the powers that be have determined it is a mild form of hazing to require such things as wearing bracelets all the time, carrying pledge notebooks, addressing actives in a certain way, etc. It's a product of our PC society, and not wanting such activities to lead to harmful/dangerous hazing.
I could be wrong though...maybe some chapters do require the pledge pin to be worn 24/7?