Hello everyone! I read this whole disscussion thing and I thought I would jump in. I just went through this spring, so there are still things I do not know about the greek system as a whole. I do however know everything I need to know about my organization's history, traditions etc. As far as hazing is concerned. I think that many things that greeks do now can be considered hazing, I also agree that there are many things that are just stupid to call hazing. We had a scavenger hunt. I didnt feel like doing it, but I didnt' consider myself to have been hazed. At first I think alot of my pledge class members were scared as to what would "happen" to us. On our campus our sorority is very secretive and no one knows what we do, so they all assume HAZING. this is not true. if all the other sororities could only see what we did, they would probably laugh. It wasn't hazing at all. And now, after I have been initiated, I look back on everything, and I see the purpose of it. some things we did might have been considered hazing, who knows? But all in all, I feel everything we did, we did together. and if we didnt' want to do something, we would not, as a whole. Therefore, it all brought us together, whether it is considered hazing or not.
One more point I would like to add. we realized that hazing means something different from one person to the next. so that is why we collectively decided as a pledge class to do nothing, even if one girl felt uncomfortable, I think that was the base of our bond. we stood together side by side, and are all thankful of it now
Tori
High Point University
Cool Kids 2000!
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