We just went through a situation identical to that. One of our sisters was picking on individual pledges and hard-core hazing them. We had absolutely no clue this was going on until the entire pledge class came to me (being the pledge educator) with a written, formal complaint and the decision that the entire pledge class was going to quit. Did we stand up for our sister or the pledges? The pledges, without a doubt. What our sister had done was very wrong and malicious, directed at just a few pledges she deemed "unworthy." The pledges stayed, and (after the judgement of the intergreek council and Head of Greek Affairs) the perpetrator was made to leave the sorority. Was this hard on us? You bet it was. But, overall, it was the best thing. What she did was very wrong, and not an action of a sister. The greeks in the other organizations respected us much more after dealing with this swiftly... they knew we weren't pushovers. This obviously caused hardships between the greeks and this girl, but sometimes you have to sacrifice the friendship of one for the well-being and friendship of many others.
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