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Yes!
Our chapter has that too. When I went through, we made little interview sheets to get to know the inititated members. What fun! Stuff like "where were you born" and "how old were you the first time you kissed a guy?" Totally harmless, but we are not allowed to do that anymore. I still look at my interview folder when I get to missing some of my sisters who have graduated. Stuff like that is barely worth reading when you read the stories about the alcohol poisonings.
Did I feel degraded? No, actually, I felt empowered-gave me an excuse to talk to the women who intimidated me (and I don't mean they went out of their way to do that-what frosh New Member in her right mind wouldn't have been a little reserved in front of Senior sisters?)
Did it cause me physical harm? No, but I bet some of the old sisters in the house had sore hands from writing on so many of the forms!
Would I be ashamed to tell my Grandmother, or Pastor about them? NO!
When our 'new' New Members see our interview folders, or hear us talk about them, they ask why we don't do them any more.
Sheesh, sometimes people get a bit overzealous about calling things hazing. Just my $.02.
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