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modified initiation
I am jewish, as is a large percentage of my chapter. (I think 40-50% of the freshman class this year at Wash U is jewish)
Anyway, at one of our pre-initiation nights, the new member eds mentioned that there is a part in our initiation that has us put our hand on a bible.. she said if any of us are not comfortable with that to let her know and they will not use the bible for us.. I probably would have gone along with it and not been offended (as long as they didnt have me swear my loyalty to Jesus or something) but since a bunch of my friends requested not to have the bible used for them, I did the same. I liked the fact that they warned us in advance that initiation would have religious undertones or whatnot, and I think it was very nice that they went out of their way to make sure people were comfortable.
I don't know if it's my sorority or my chapter (or my region?) but religious is not stressed at all in my chapter..
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