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Originally posted by 33girl
So holding up your experience as a "hazing didn't create unity" example isn't quite the same as someone from an already established chapter. Not to say you're wrong, just to point out that the group you were in may have had another "layer" of things happening that others may have not.
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Actually, the colonization did not happen for a couple of years AFTER our pledge period - and it was actually the founding sisters doing the hazing (and who actually 'advertised' they had a hazing-free pledge program!). Hazing was VERY common on campus from what I could tell and remember even among the well established locals and nationals (both fraternities and sororities). Having been a chapter adviser for a NPC sorority on a Big 10 campus, the opportunity for hazing was always there - the only difference was the chapter had an international organization to be accountable to and a university that actually enforced the laws about hazing. The school that Heather and I attended was strict about alcohol but not at all about hazing. THAT is the difference.
The only reason, I'm assuming since I have long since left that school, that hazing would no longer be tolerated is because of the influence of the international organizations. HOWEVER when we had to do the activities it was under the guise of becoming a united group and getting to know the actives and our fellow pledges.
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