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Originally Posted by 33girl
If what you're asking them to do doesn't either help them learn the history and operations of the sorority and Greek community or help them get to know its current and alumni members, I would call it hazing, and I'm more lax than 95% of the people on here.
There are plenty of things that you can do within the above limits I've mentioned, and not feel as though your pledges have skated their way to sisterhood. Have weekly quizzes on the history, etc and require a certain % of correct answers to pass. If someone continually is falling below that, ask if they're having any sort of issues or if they're just blowing it off. If it's the latter, terminate their pledgeship. I don't see the point of the phone answering or the door thing. Colors day is fine once a week (when all the fraternities and sororities are wearing letters, I assume your school has an official or traditional day like this) but constantly throughout pledging is a little ridiculous.
Everyone else: this is not an NPC sorority. They're not considered sisters from the moment they accept their bids. Please do not apply NPC standards to non-NPC groups, it just doesn't work and is borderline bigoted and narrow-minded. If you want these girls to have the same standards an NPC does, call up your HQ and ask them to colonize them.
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I take exception to the use of the word "bigoted" here.
But there's a difference between treating pledges as sisters and treating them like your personal slaves. I'm not going to sign on to the latter just because they're a local.
Even what you suggested, reacting to poor scores with a caring concern, seems to be out of the immediate experience of this poster.
If you're trying NOT to lose recognition, don't sound like you're trying to think of "secret hazing" techniques, especially if it is all over campus that you (apparently) haze already.