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Originally posted by concerned451
i haven't read the magazine article and the link to the T.V. site wouldn't work for me, however, here's my view on this - i totally agree with some of you that if these hazing's were done so many years ago that it's misleading to report them in a magazine as a current risk, but it does seem strange that for so many of you being anti hazing you are so quick to want to discredit someone who wants to to shed light on the subject. i realize you strongly believe in the organizations you belong to and obviously don't want potential members to think that greek life as a whole has a major hazing problem, but, it IS a problem, isn't it? i'm not saying that every fraternity or sorority hazes it's pledges, but lets face it, it does go on more than some of you apparently want others to think, or at least that's the impression i'm getting. most of the people i know do believe that if you join, you'll be hazed. i'm willing to believe that it's not like that across the board but i don't think it's responsible to promote the lie that it doesn't happen or rarely happens. there's already so much pressure for people to stay quiet about it and accept that it goes on. it just seems odd because i've read many opinions in other threads encouraging people to report hazing, and here you have someone who is trying to get the warning out and many of you attack her or say she shouldn't name names. maybe you feel she's not a credible source, but given how so much hazing is going on at the highschool level, i think that only encourages it to go on in college, so young people do need to be warned that it's wrong, even if you'd think that most people should naturally understand that it's wrong to have fun abusing or humiliating others in the first place. that's what's really sad.
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These are good points, and I think we understand what you're saying. But I think what is so disturbing about this article is that it completely ignores the HUGE strides all sororities and fraternities have taken to completely eliminate ALL hazing from new member programming.
Being a member of one of the sororities mentioned, it makes me sad that all the progress we've made to that extent can be completely written off by this woman, who, you have to admit, does seem to want to sensationalize hazing to her own profit.
I see you're a new poster on here, so I'm not sure if you're a greek or not. But any member of a national GLO on these boards can testify to the huge changes that have been made, especially in the last few years, to ensure that women and men DO feel safe joining a GLO and that hazing will not occur in their chapters. And these changes will continue to occur, until all hazing is eliminated completely. Yet simultaneously, this woman can publish this article, and the rumors and lies about Greek life will be perpetuated. Is the Greek system perfect now? No. Does hazing still occur? Probably. Have GLOs devoted significant time, money, and personnel to ensuring that infrastructure and policies are in place to deal with and stop hazing in their chapters? Yes. Hazing in our chapters is not acceptable to our national organizations and THAT is why people are so upset about this.