In your opinion and/or the opinion of your (inter)national Greek organization, are the following activities considered hazing:
- Blindfolding your pledges and leading them, in a group, around campus at night.
- Forcing them to sing ridiculous songs while blindfolded ("Itsy-Bitsy Spider", "I'm a Little Teapot", etc.) around campus, at night, for everyone to hear and see.
- Having them push a car, also while blindfolded.
- Yelling at them or tieing their hands together, while still blindfolded.
- Assigning them a nickname by which they will be known by the actives.
Just asking. We're having a bit of a debate at my school right now. The local men's music honorary (which call themselves Christian gentlemen and deliberately segregate themselves from and look down upon the rest of the Greek system) posted pictures of these activities on their website. They took them down later, but not before several members of the campus also posted the pictures in their own blogs for everyone to see.
I think that the administration is dealing with it (I hope, anyway), but members of this quasi-fraternity insist that what they did wasn't hazing, but trust-building - a harmless initiation activity.
In Pi Phi, we have learned that no matter how harmless something seems, no matter how unintentional, it can still be hazing.... And according to our definition, what these guys are doing is hazing. According to all definitions I've ever heard, including the NPC and NIC definitions, this is hazing.
Anyway, I just wanted some opinions from people here.
And if the administration chooses to ignore it, who can I go to? They are a local group, and honorary, and are not part of IFC.
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