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Did you ever stop to think that the fraternities knew that the girls were going to come take their composites and that they pretty much just gave the girls a hard time and then handed them over? Or that these girls have the option to not do it? I'm not saying that fraternities or sororities should be allowed to shove anything down anyone's throat, but there is always the choice of the individual, and if these individuals can not find it in themselves to say no, then they are not greek material anyway. We need strong leaders, not followers, and not all tradition is bad. We've got schools like the one in Florida that have problems with it, but we've also got schools that don't. Should their traditions be sacraficed because of the mistake made by others? No. The problem we're having is that there is too much involvement by the media. Greek life is exclusive for a reason...and the problems we have should stay within the family. Too many chapters suffer because of the mistake of one, and that is completely unfair to everyone. I'm sure that every chapter has some tradition that could be considered hazing, that the chapter that has it, does not think about it as hazing. I'm all about NOT hazing our pledges, but when a scavenger hunt is considered hazing haven't we gone too far? What about the rituals? What if the new memebers have to dress up in certain "costumes" or wear masks or whatever, or the initiated members can't shower, or shave, or whatever for a certain ritual...is that too hazing, or is it just ritual? Pretty soon we're going to have nothing left to our chapters because someone, somewhere will consider it all hazing and we will be left with nothing but a name, some letters and memories. The point I'm trying to make, is that we need to really take a look at what we all stand for...we're a family, we're love, we're greek...these hazing incidents should NOT happen, but somewhere we've got to take care of our own. Why aren't we helping the chapters that are in trouble, giving them alternate ways to take care of their pledges, actually put people in there to HELP them instead of kicking them off campuses, and putting them on probation with no one to give them any resources? I just believe that we are going about this in all the wrong ways...i'm not saying ignore hazing, or that it's right, i'm saying that we need to fix it instead of just hacking every chapter we possibly can, because all we are doing that way is giving those who are against greeks, for whatever reason they hate us, some more bullets. What we need to do is have a facilitator come in, clean up the chapter, and see who is truly detrimental to that chapter on that campus. There has to be at least a few good apples in every bunch that truely want to be there, that didn't take part in all of this, and that have a true heart for the chapter they are in. Ridding the campus of every one of them takes away any opportunity they have to help themselves with a better name or a new reputation. If you are not willing to take a true look at what we could do to HELP instead of KILL a chapter, then I suggest that YOU take a look at what you pledged and your oath and consider why you exist in the greek community.