Miss America 2015

honeychile · #1 10-23-2014, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by irishpipes

Please tell me you didn't participate in a scavenger hunt too! And the very worst of all - being called a pledge. How humiliating. The wounds from our hazing experiences will never heal!

Yes, I am WOUNDED FOR LIFE!!! (You couldn't tell??)

Seriously, all this new wording makes me crazy at times. Nobody pledges - they take their New Member (vows? oath?). Yikes!

AnchorAlumna · #2 10-25-2014, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by honeychile

Seriously, all this new wording makes me crazy at times. Nobody pledges - they take their New Member (vows? oath?). Yikes!

Women still pledge.
It's just that now, "pledge" is a verb, not a noun.

Really wish NPC would go back to the old terms.

honeychile · #3 10-25-2014, 12:34 PM

1964Alum, according to today's definition of hazing, you were also hazed. Seriously - check into your national standards. I thought being a pledge was special, and am not saying that I didn't enjoy being a pledge - even as I longed to be a full-fledged sister. As I said before, I'm not calling out Chi Omega - this is the NPC standard now.

AnchorAlumna, I wish we could go back to the new terms, too. I'd like to see statistics as to whether hazing is more prominent now as opposed to pre-1980.