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zekita
i was initiated into zta in 1976, way before the anti-hazing legislation came about. what is now considered hazing was stuff i participated in as a pledge(which is what we were called then). we had to learn all the actives names, their hometowns and majors. we each had to write a song about our pledgeship, the sorority or an event that happened during our pledgeship-the song could be nice or it could be a roast.onetime, as dinner was being served, we had to run upstairs, turn our clothes inside out and come back to dinner. they had replaced our dinner with green spaghetti, and for dessert they had vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce and we had cold mashed potatoes with chocolate sauce. we were not supposed to eat it! then they told us to go down to the basement and brought us back one by one and blindfolded us and drove us to a hotdog cookout they had secretly planned for us. it was so much fun. they would also occasionally have us stand up during dinner and sing a song or recite something like the founders names or our founding date or the like. of course these were all done during closed dinners when no guests could be invited. we never did anything in front of non zetas and we did not consider it hazing. i did not feel demeaned and neither did any of my pledge sisters. it was all done in fun and it WAS fun. the other sororities on the campus were also doing similar things, but nothing was harmful and was all done in the spirit of fun.
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