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04-10-2012, 12:55 PM
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I'm wondering whether there's any legitimate sorority connection at all. The red flag for me was when the alleged KKG alum wrote, "one night during the rush process, I was blindfolded with two of my fellow pledges." (emphasis mine)
Maybe it's just me, but I knew when I was rushing, I knew when rush was over, and I knew when I was considered a pledge. In my experience, the only people who ever confuse these stages are those who were not involved in the process.
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04-10-2012, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by SydneyK
I'm wondering whether there's any legitimate sorority connection at all. The red flag for me was when the alleged KKG alum wrote, "one night during the rush process, I was blindfolded with two of my fellow pledges." (emphasis mine)
Maybe it's just me, but I knew when I was rushing, I knew when rush was over, and I knew when I was considered a pledge. In my experience, the only people who ever confuse these stages are those who were not involved in the process.
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She was in a sorority at Dartmouth.
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04-10-2012, 05:44 PM
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She was in a sorority at Dartmouth.
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Actually, she says that she depledged, so no, she really wasn't "in" a sorority.
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04-10-2012, 05:50 PM
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Actually, she says that she depledged, so no, she really wasn't "in" a sorority.
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We have records of every member who is initiated online and she is listed there. Her terminology may be bad but she was a member.
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04-10-2012, 05:52 PM
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We have records of every member who is initiated online and she is listed there. Her terminology may be bad but she was a member.
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If a person confuses rush with pledging and depledging with termination of membership, that's beyond bad terminology. Especially if you had the brain to get into Dartmouth. The whole thing just doesn't smell right.
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04-10-2012, 06:15 PM
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If a person confuses rush with pledging and depledging with termination of membership, that's beyond bad terminology. Especially if you had the brain to get into Dartmouth. The whole thing just doesn't smell right.
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What she said.
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04-10-2012, 06:41 PM
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We have records of every member who is initiated online and she is listed there. Her terminology may be bad but she was a member.
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The online membership database lists those who have gone through initiation and who have not resigned membership with the fraternity. Of course, if the paperwork never makes it to headquarters, they have no record of resignation (there are at least three sisters from my own chapter who resigned membership while I was in school yet are still listed in the database).
So. 1) the author did go through the initiation process, which means she didn't depledge. 2) if she did resign membership, the paperwork never went through to headquarters. This just seems like a writer trying to ride the wave of the Rolling Stone article by putting out her own shock story.
I'm not denying these types of events happen. They do. But they are usually the actions of a few sisters and certainly not a chapter-sanctioned "hazing ritual".
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04-10-2012, 08:23 PM
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I'm not denying these types of events happen. They do. But they are usually the actions of a few sisters and certainly not a chapter-sanctioned "hazing ritual".
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I hate to nitpick, but I have to disagree with you here. As far as I care, if it's an initiated sister making anyone involved in the chapter do something that endangers them physically or emotionally, it's hazing. That means whether it's a new member, newly initiated sister, incoming chapter council, whatever. Zero tolerance.
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