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Originally posted by AlphaPhiBubbles
I guess everyone's definition is really different...which may be the problem with this entire thread. I think the first step would be to get someone to give a universal definition of hazing. In my experience hazing is doing anything that active or older members of the organization do not participate in, or things that make the indivual uncomfortable with. Hazing includes "less serious" activities such as interviews, tests, scavenger hunts, trust walks.........honestly i think some of it is stupid, and can make pledging kind of boring without....but i also know the value in anti-hazing policies because not every new member would have the courage to say no to activities they didn't want to do.
Anyway getting on with it, I'm sorry but I assume all org's haze at least a little...it's just hard to avoid. I mean I know that even NPC groups who can get in trouble pretty easily still haze...honestly people it's retarded for everyone to be "ohhhh MY org or MY group of org's (NPC, NIC, NPHC) doesn't haze but the others do".
I guess it's just my two cents.
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I think this gets us into a HUGE misperception that way, way too many NPC sorority ladies have about hazing. Just because your organization forbids scavenger hunts, interviews, trust walks -- and refers to them as "hazing" -- does NOT mean that they are against state hazing laws. And unless a multicultural organization's HQ forbids them to do these things or they are against federal or state hazing laws, they are NOT hazing. Your organization may think so, and you may not be allowed to do them, but just because a different organization does things differently does not necessarily mean that they are wrong. It is okay, in some cases, for some NIC organizations to make their pledges clean the house. It is okay, in some GLOs, for the actives to conduct interviews or make the pledges go on scavenger hunts.
A lot of NPC organizations have gone overboard in their anti-hazing laws. Do I think that's necessarily a bad thing? No. But I do think that if other organizations choose to run their organizations differently, as long as they're not breaking any laws they are fine.