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Originally posted by honeychile (in part)
I have to admit that this thread is the very first time I've ever heard of a new member needing to "earn" her letters, in any GLO. I am in complete amazement that y'all don't consider that hazing, yet consider wearing a ribbon with your colors hazing.
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Whew! I have to admit complete astonishment that anyone could say that either of these rules
are hazing. Even under the NPC standards, neither of these things could possibly be considered hazing. The NPC says:
Hazing is defined as any action or situation with or without consent which recklessly, intentionally or unintentionally endangers the mental or physical health or safety of a student, or creates risk of injury, or causes discomfort, embarrassment, harassment or ridicule or which willfully destroys or removes public or private property for the purpose of initiation or admission into or affiliation with, or as a condition for continued membership in a chapter or colony of an NPC member fraternity.
Nothing there about anything that separates a new member from a sister (or brother). Pledges (new members, porbationary members, candidates, whatever you want to call them)
are different from initiated sisters/brothers. For one thing, they don't know what the letters or other symbols mean. For another, they haven't taken the oath(s) that bind fully-initiated brothers or sisters. And at least in most fraternities I know anything about, the chapter can decide not to initiate them. If they can't wear the badge (and I assume that this is the case in any GLO -- except those that have done away with pledging altogether), they why can't they be prohibited from wearing letters?
Sorry, but to say that it is hazing to prohibit anyone who has not been fully initiated from wearing letters is, in my opinion, way lame.