Hazing creates a sense of unity

[RaggedyAnn]

I have a true story.

Last fall I ran into two young men at work. I found out that they were part of a GLO at the local university and asked them if they knew one of their pledges worked there. They did not. No big deal, except one of the brothers did not even know the pledge. Why the big deal? That brother was the President of the GLO-which I knew was hazing. You tell me, does that sound like unity?

I think you can be unified without hazing. Your family doesn't haze. Churches don't haze. Did you haze your best friend? What about boy scouts or girl scouts?

[cuteASAbug]

Originally Posted by RaggedyAnn

Last fall I ran into two young men at work. I found out that they were part of a GLO at the local university and asked them if they knew one of their pledges worked there. They did not. No big deal, except one of the brothers did not even know the pledge. Why the big deal? That brother was the President of the GLO-which I knew was hazing. You tell me, does that sound like unity?

I'm confused- the guys didn't know that they worked with one of their new members?

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by cuteASAbug

I'm confused- the guys didn't know that they worked with one of their new members?

No, I think she's saying the president of the chapter didn't know one of the pledges in his chapter.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by RaggedyAnn

I think you can be unified without hazing. Your family doesn't haze. Churches don't haze. Did you haze your best friend? What about boy scouts or girl scouts?

My friends and I hazed each other in the beginning of our friendship process. Hazing in this sense isn't based on the narrow definition of hazing provided by the anti-hazing buffs, though.

There are different forms of hazing in all of these institutions. Every institution has rituals, rites of passage, and things that members must do to be received by the other members. Some of these things are lightweight (just as some of the things GLOers do that gets labeled "hazing" is extremely lightweight but "bad" because aspirants and members don't have a choice) and other things are more intense depending on whose family, friends, church, and boy scout troop you're talking about.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS

There are different forms of hazing in all of these institutions. Every institution has rituals, rites of passage, and things that members must do to be received by the other members. Some of these things are lightweight (just as some of the things GLOers do that gets labeled "hazing" is extremely lightweight but "bad" because aspirants and members don't have a choice) and other things are more intense depending on whose family, friends, church, and boy scout troop you're talking about.

Very true.

And as for Scouts, I do remember well the searches at camporees for left-handed monkey-wrenches, flag-pole keys and smoke shifters.

[Tom Earp]

And how times have changed.

Hazing has become a no no of any kind as manytimes even the most minor to some changed and became a hazard.