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Originally posted by Adelphean1851
I suggested posting a response so that the girls reading that article could get some advice from bona fide sorority women not just someone out to make a buck off our sordid past. I wonder if someone wrote a true to life account of her sorority expirence if anyone would read it?
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let's say company xyz has employee's who come foward with an allegation of mistreatment, then naturally it gets media coverage. off the top of your head, how many high profile, or even semi high profile allegations of mistreatment or abuse do you hear about that are completely unfounded? someone may have an axe to grind or is seeking to make a name, sure, but that in and of itself doesn't rend the allegations null and void.
i understand that if public allegations are made regarding policy or abuse within co.xyz, there will be people involved or employed there who may not be tied to the allegation of wrong doing and will naturally feel that they and everyone there are being lumped into a general misconception, or perceived public perception.
a portion of those people are probably justified, another portion simply doesn't want everyone knowing their dirty secrets. and let's face it, dirty secrets make the news, not everyday, normal routines that don't involve scandal.
to refer to hazing as merely an aspect of a "sordid past" convey's the message that it no longer occurs, and if you know people or even take a look at the news coverage regarding hazing throughout this country, it is quite "present" and not a long gone "past". i don't think that any one person's "true life account" can tell the whole story either way, but it depends on what goes on at that person's school. the ones who have been hazed or haze will paint it one way, and probably with more emotion if they feel it's wrong than those who aren't exposed to it.