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Originally posted by lyrica9
" Anything activity that puts a person in clear danger is unacceptable. And any activities which have no beneficial outcomes and serve merely to humiliate or scare another are unacceptable, because those are just the things which put people in the hospital and give sports teams and the Greek system bad reputations. On the contrary, those things which may be hard but have a a purpose and conclude with success have their rightful place among us. "
i think this would be a much better definition of what hazing is/isnt than what i was taught in new member education. which was something to the degree of "hazing is anything that causes you mental, physical or emotional harm." and somehow includes things like scavenger hunts (not the scary ones, but just around the house or something) and other activities that are usually fun for everyone included.
ive noticed, unlike the writer's campus, that its only the greeks that get admonished/punished for hazing-like activities, while honor societies, service groups and spirit groups have been hazing for decades and no one gets booted for five years.
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This is a great standard to look to... anything that puts someone in danger - wrong; anything that is designed to humilitae - wrong...
That to me is the basic difference between hazing and indoctrination. Which is the great essential difference between the crap that some chapters pull, and what happens (for the most part) during basic training in the military.
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