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Originally posted by amazinglagirl
So, while you aren't likely to get fried for things like signatures, it is just one of those things that separates your members and sets up the culture that new members are somehow LESS valued and less entitled to brother/sisterhood and have to EARN their way in after they have already been chosen by you.
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The purpose of getting signatures/doing interviews has NOTHING to do with creating a separation between pledges & members. The purpose of such activities is to get the pledges & the membership to meet and get to know one another. To use the 'you don't ask the members to get signatures, so asking the pledges to is hazing' doesn't fly with me. You DO ask/expect the members to meet & get to know the pledges. You DO ask/expect the pledges to meet & get to know the members. Signatures/interviews is the WAY to get this done in a more formalized manner.