Not to get into semantics, but I don't think this is a matter of freedom of speech. This is a
private message board. If this were the government coming in and demanding it closed - that would be a violation. And since no one is paying to be here & this being privatly owned - I think (but could be wrong) that anything can get closed down at anytime for any reason.
That being said, I was in a high school sorority and I was hazed horribly. I could never be friendly with the mean girls because I kept thinking about how much fun they had watching me suffer. There is a great rift between hazing and bonding. For instance, we are required to memorize our Symphony. Is that hazing??? No, it didn't cause any emotional hurt or embarrasment. However, we all studied for it together and worked together. We bonded without any of the negative things you are talking about. I vowed that if I was told that I
had to do something that I didn't want to, that I would get up and walk out. Well, I am still here!
It is a fact that being Greek
IS NOT about abuse. It is not about having power of others. If anyone joined a GLO for that reason, then they should leave the org. and seek therapy! Being Greek is about sister/brotherhood. It is about fraternity (that is the reason we are called a fraternity)! Being Greek is about having a common bond with people that non-Greeks have difficulty understanding - having a mutual respect and a great deal of love for
all Greeks, and a very very close bond to the people in your own GLO. I think every Greek here will agree that the bond is unlike anything else. And this bond has
nothing to do with hazing.
We go through enough hardships in life without hazing. I don't need sister to create hardships for me - I just need them to be there to get me through those hardships. That is how
we bond.
Allie