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Originally posted by steelepike
I just did a search on google putting sorority closed for hazing and i had numerous pages put that phase on the page. So its not just fraternities.
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I'm not saying it's JUST fraternities that are hazing or breaking risk management policies . . . only that it's a lot more common for fraternities to haze than sororities. I can see this reflected not only on my own campus, but in the number of cases brought up in this forum (almost none of which mention sororities). Also, when sororities do haze, it's generally less likely to involve alcohol or physical punishments, and more likely to involve emotional-type hazing, therefore less likely to end up with someone dying, and less likely to cause a lawsuit.
I'm also not trying to say that there are more fraternity hazing cases than sorority cases because guys are worse than girls, either . . .
. I'm just saying that it happens that way because the NPC sorority rules are generally much more restrictive than NIC fraternity rules. About five years ago, Tri Delta HQ kicked out several members from my chapter and put my sorority on social probation for a semester (absolutely no social, philanthropic, or all-Greek events). The offense? Part of the new member programming involved a (completely optional, no-illegal-activities-involved) scavenger hunt, which is against our sorority's bylaws. You would never see a fraternity enacting that kind of punishment for that minor of an offense. I'm not necessarily saying I like the way that the NPC organizations run things all of the time, and there are certainly times when I think they're too strict . . . but at the same time, I think that if the NIC doesn't get strict on risk management and hazing, we will end up losing the Greek system when it comes to cases like these.