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Old 08-01-2009, 09:48 PM
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What do you consider hazing and what is pledge-ship?

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Old 08-01-2009, 09:57 PM
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There are several threads about this already. Use the search function or browse the Risk Management/Hazing sub-forum.
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Old 08-01-2009, 10:01 PM
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Where do you draw the line between hazing and a pledge-ship?
There is no line between hazing and pledgeship. The line is between hazing and not hazing, or to put it another way, whether hazing is part of your chapter's pledgeship or not.

For all practical purposes, it's hazing if (1) your fraternity or sorority defines it as hazing, (2) your college or university defines it as hazing, or (3) your state law defines it as hazing.

This has been dsicussed many times in quite a few threads, including some of the stickied threads like "Does Your Chapter Haze" and "Do you think your organization's risk management policies go overboard?"

I'm betting that if you read these threads, you'll see how the sorority chapter requiring their new members to serenade a fraternity chapter may have constituted hazing as defined by their inter/national organization.
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Old 08-02-2009, 08:43 PM
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Where do you draw the line between hazing and a pledge-ship?

What do you think about pledges always being DD's?
What do you think of pledges doing set up/clean up?

Where is the line and what goes past it? I wonder this because a sorority at Arkansas got in trouble because they made their pledges sing to a fraternity and i personally think this is not hazing but just part of expected pledge-ship.

Also i believe that by punishing them for something so small it does not distinguish what is flat wrong and what is 'breaking the rules.'
You're either A. a truly obnoxious troll or B. a fucking moron.
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Old 08-02-2009, 08:44 PM
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You're either A. a truly obnoxious troll or B. a fucking moron.
Can't it be both?
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Old 08-02-2009, 09:16 PM
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Can't it be both?

Yes, I don't think (alas) that the two are mutually exclusive.
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