Music Greek Organization booted from campus

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by slibfs14

and I do not like seeing ours thrown out like we are the only ones giving the greeks a bad name. Lets look at Lambda Chi Alpha I know here at UTC they don't have the best record. So watch what you say. We are all Greek and have to work together to give the overall Greek name a better appeal to people on the outside.

Chill, brother. (And welcome to GreekChat!)

Remember that this is a risk management forum. No one is singling Sinfonia out "like we are the only ones giving the greeks a bad name." All of the threads in this forum have to do with GLOs of all stripes and risk management problems. This particular thread just happens to be about us, and it happens to have been started by a Lambda Chi who follows these things more closely than others. I wish there weren't a thread about us either, not because I feel singled out, but because I'm sorry one of our chapters behaved as it did and made the news.

The very purpose of this forum is the recognition that, as you say, "We are all Greek and have to work together to give the overall Greek name a better appeal to people on the outside." That, and as said earlier, so that we can all learn from each other's mistakes.

[Kevin]

FYI, no national (that I know of) allows hazing.

More correctly, no insurance company allows hazing.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Kevin

FYI, no national (that I know of) allows hazing.

Certainly true. I imagine that what slibfs14 was referring to is that our nationals have placed a heightened emphasis on it recently, with a zero-tolerance policy coming out of our National Assembly this past summer.

[ChildoftheHorn]

Ok, so I have a lot of friends in PMA. I was in the marching band my freshman year and a large percentage of them participate in that at my school. Therefore, through those two things I kind-of know a bit about some of their secret hazing. They don't do anything physically painful, just have some brotherhood stuff where they wear all black and tour the university just after midnight. There is a little of making pledges stay up all night and things like that, which is a lot better than what some of my friends have gone through with their fraternities/sororities. I live next to a fraternity house that makes their pledges do all kinds of "special favors", they get ranked according to how they perform those tasks, and they actually do the paddling. The other one right next to me just makes their pledges do a half mile run holding cups of water. The guys organizations do physical hazing whereas the girls tend to do more mental things. The truth is that there is hazing in some manner or another. If you think about it, you even make your friends do stuff for you on occassion. As long as it does not damage the person in any way really, it is not all that bad. I am not saying it is right, it is just a fact of life for Greek organizations. I will say that my organization has not done any of that, but we are new.

[UGAalum94]

I can honestly say I was never hazed in any way in my GLO.

[AngelPhiSig]

Ditto - on all four orgs.

[twotimestalia]

My blood brother and sister hazed me more then my sorority ever will!