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Originally Posted by 33girl
If what you're asking them to do doesn't either help them learn the history and operations of the sorority and Greek community or help them get to know its current and alumni members, I would call it hazing, and I'm more lax than 95% of the people on here.
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This isn't what distinguishes hazing from nonhazing for every GLO and nonGLO. A lot of methods have been used to help (read: make) pledges learn and encourage/instill sisterhood and brotherhood. When pledges learn and are close with each other and the actives, people say "look, our methods work!!! There's no other way to do this. Anything else is skating."
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Originally Posted by 33girl
There are plenty of things that you can do within the above limits I've mentioned, and not feel as though your pledges have skated their way to sisterhood.
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I agree.
However, even a colors day once a week (which I hope no one considers someone working their way into an organization LOL) is considered hazing and can get chapters in trouble in some organizations. It is a way of identifying and unifying pledges that has no clear purpose beyond that and the aspirants are usually not participating by choice. Sure, they got dressed by choice and look willing but saying "no" wouldn't go over well and they know that.
With that said, anything that chapters do must be done in line with their organization's and school's regulations. They need to know when they are breaking the rules versus thinking that everything that sounds wonderful and harmless is acceptable. We can complain about the definition of hazing and how strict it is all we want, but it doesn't erase the fact that such regulations exist.
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