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[REE1993]

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Is it now considered hazing for pledges/new members to wear pledge shirts or your colors to meetings?

(showing my age here)

[naraht]

Originally Posted by REE1993

Sorry to hijack

Is it now considered hazing for pledges/new members to wear pledge shirts or your colors to meetings?

(showing my age here)

This is something that could vary from school to school, state to state and of course your answers may be different in APO & GSS.

I know of at least one chapter, Mu Alpha, that at least of 10 years ago, expected the pledges to show up for pledge line meetings dress more or less identically, but I think the pledges chose the "uniform", the one semester I remember they were all in white t-shirts and jeans.

I think part of the split is just how often the chapter affects how the pledge is dressed *and* whether their dress is likely to cause ridicule. There is a difference, for example, between making social fraternity pledges were blue one night a week and making them go to class in a tutu.

YiLFS
Randy

[emb021]

Originally Posted by REE1993

Sorry to hijack

Is it now considered hazing for pledges/new members to wear pledge shirts or your colors to meetings?

It depends.

There is an attitude in part of the 'GLO world' that 'making' a pledge 'do' 'anything' is hazing.

this can include:

*wearing a pledge pin or other means of identifying pledges
*making them learning about the organization & testing them
*making them do anything, like attend meetings, do service, etc.

Personally, what making something hazing is WHAT you make them do and WHY. Thus to me, making pledges do something is not in and of itself hazing, but what you are making them do and why.

Within reason, making a pledge wear a pin is not hazing. As I expect Brothers to wear their APO pins, I would expect pledges to do the same. As in APO, certain things can NOT be worn by pledges, I don't think most in APO would expect pledges to 'wear our colors' as they are not yet pledges. Some chapters may do pledge t-shirts, but it may not be reasonable to expect all pledges to wear them at all meetings. I would view pledge t-shirts as something I would expect them to wear at service events, if possible.