Looking back, I think one could probably consider our traditions "hazing".

As freshmen, we were paired up with a junior and she would be our big sis. I went to an all girls' Catholic school, btw. A week in September was Freshman Initiation week, and each day would have a theme, in accordance for the theme of the week. The freshmen were showered with gifts and other goodies because it's such a special time...we wanted each girl to feel welcome because they were the newbies at Sacred Hearts Academy. It all culminated in Friday's Pep Rally, where each freshman was dressed up and paraded around the gym. When I was a freshman, the theme was "Back to the Future", and I was a cave babe! I dressed my little as one of the Brady Bunch kids...my little clique in HS got together and did the same thing.

We also had the Senior Pavilion, and it was OFF LIMITS to underclassmen. There were only two pay phones on campus, and one was in the Senior Pavilion. The other pay phone was usually busy and someone was usually on it, but if you got caught in the Pavilion, you woulda had ISHT to pay.

My class...the class of 1997, started a new tradition...SENIOR BREAKFAST. We cut homeroom and first period to have breakfast across the street at Columbia Inn. We did it during Senior Finals week, but now I hear that the administration doesn't know when the senior class will cut. Upon returning from breakfast, we disrupt the entire school by marching back singing the alma mater and other fight songs.

We got detention for it...90 girls picking up trash afterschool, and they threatened to not graduate us, but now they can't do anything about it because it's become tradition! It feels cool to start something like that.