I think that if we want to address the issue of hazing and how to better work against the years of *tradition* that the Greek organizations base their need to haze on; we have to start with the pledges/new members. I think that we should educate the new members that they have the ability to stand up for themselves and when they feel that an activity has crossed the line for them they are able to speak up and do something about it. I know that there have been activites that my pledge sisters and I have participated in that made some of them very uncomfortable, but many were afraid to speak up for fear that after they devoted so much time, emotion, money, etc. that they would be dropped and unable to be initiated. I think that if there was an outlet for you to say this has definitly gone over the line for me, some of our hazing problems would disappear.
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