Pledging

[kddani]

Originally posted by 33girl
Pledging/new member ed periods do not cause hazing. People cause hazing.

If people in a chapter want to haze badly enough, they'll just give the "newest initiated members" the second class treatment, rather than doing it while they are pledges.

yep. There's def. been ZBT chapters that haze. Wouldnt' be surprised at all if on the one on my campus does- they've been in trouble for everything else under the sun. There's LXA chapters that haze- they just call their new members "associates' or something. There are chapters of all of our orgs that haze. No matter what you call the new member period and whether or not they're intiated, there is still hazing going on.

Personally I hate the idea of having no new member period of all. How do the new members learn about the org? I know it's different for guys and girls, but our new member period is so much fun and they get their butts spoiled! So much love is created and so much fun is had.

Plus by initiating right away, what if the particular person doesn't work out? Either your chapter made a mistake on giving them a bid or they find out it's not right for them. Then you're both stuck b/c they're an initiated member. What if they got hazed, and want to drop, but can't join another group b/c they've already been initiated.

In my view, there are just as many, if not more, drawbacks of initiating right away intead of having a new member period.