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good v. bad
bad-allowing new members to attend chapter. if someone needs to air dirty laundry, they can't do it because it could upset the new members(read harriet saying to ozzie, not in front of the children), so things just keep festering week after week instead of getting resolved.
having get to know you games between new members and members considered hazing. in my day, we pledges had to get each sister to sign the back of a wooden crown that our big sister would later take away and decorate as an initiation gift for us. we got to know every sister in and out of the house on a personal level, and all we ever had to do was go talk to them a little and ask them to sign our crown. there was nothing mean or derogatory about it. it is now considered hazing because the new members would be doing this and the sisters would not be also having crowns signed, as they already had done this when they were new members. political correctness sure does take the fun out of a lot of things.
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