Okay I took this from another thread and a post by the amazing Tom Earp
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Originally posted by Tom Earp
Pledges cleaning the house is hazing by Natioanl Standards! Sucks but TRUE!
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I was talking in Ktsnake's thread about how a clean house is important, and I described that we have our pledges clean our house.
The way our system is set up is like this. Each pledge is given a duty, some are no doubt harder than others. They range from vacuuming the stairs and hallways to sorting mail to straightening the front yard (includes shoveling snow in winter) to cleaning the dining room (not the kitchen which is done by hashers) to cleaning our "breakfast nook/kitchenette" to cleaning the bathrooms (both men's and women's). Each duty usually takes no longer than 15 minutes to complete and they must be done everyday. An active member must then sign off on the duty sheet or the pledge will lose a point from their pledge program. We provide proper cleaning supplies so they aren't doing them with toothbrushes or anything like that. Usually after two weeks the duties are rotated so no one is stuck with the same duty during their pledge semester. For the really hard duties 2 pledges are assigned to it and those two guys will work out a system so that it gets done.
During second semester (b/c we don't take any spring pledges) the duties are permanently assigned. Starting with the highest roll number (ie the pledge who initiated first...#1 would be the highest) the guys are allowed to pick what there duty will be for the rest of the year. Fines are given out for each day the duty is not signed off on by a member of another pledge class.
I went a look at what the General Fraternity policies on Hazing were at the Beta website and nothing I read there seemed to say to me that this was hazing. However I was wondering what other GC'ers thoughts were.
Cleaning house = hazing ???
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