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Originally posted by CarolinaCutie
But here's a different example: Suzy Pledge Educator has a feeling that some of her pledges don't have their heart in the right place and aren't being pledged hard enough. She wants to make sure that the new girls realize how important it is to know the history of ABC sorority. So she creates a test... a test so hard that probably the majority of the chapter would fail. She asks questions about obscure dates that aren't mentioned in the pledge manual; she requires rote memorization of entire subsections of the Constitution and Bylaws; she asks the hometown and major of every single sister in the chapter. And she tells them that if ONE of their fellow pledges doesn't make 80% or above, they all have to take the test over and over again until they all meet her standards.
Granted, this is an exaggerated example meant to prove a point. My point is that many of our regulations about hazing are created to cover all our bases. A lot of things outlawed (like my original example of scavenger hunts) could be a positive, haze-free new member activity. But things could also go very, very wrong. Our national organizations avoid these types of incidents in ONE of the only ways they can- by eliminating the activity completely.
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I see your point about the test. I would hate to be a NM being guided by Suzy Pledge Educator. What would she do if all the NM's decided to drop right after taking that test? How would she explain that to her house?
I wouldn't want to be her when her house finds out why all the NM's dropped.
Could you imagine what would happen if some PE actually did do this? Heads would roll
