Quote:
Originally posted by AlphaSigLana:
My sorority doesn't haze, but we new members must show respect to the elders. We do this by: giving up our space on the couch if there is no room and we sit on the floor. We stand for alumnae. We show our support for our house through simple gestures. I'm sure we do more, but they aren't coming to me right now. Any way the elders in the house have earned it and they are the ones who have kept our house running. This year I will be a sophomre in the house so the new girls will be giving up their seats. I believe we earn privelages being in a sorority is a privelage not a right. The elders keep us in the house by showing how much they care for the house and that includes not hazing us. If girls were hazed chances are many would deactivate and ASA wouldn't exist on my campus. Simple non abusive hazing is ok- i.e making the new girls pick up the mess after spring formal so the seniors wouldn't have to. I think that is okay.
I have met fraternity members who were hazed and said it gave them more respect for their fraternity. SO maybe guys are different, but I know I couldn't put up with be abused.
|
I don't see any harm in what your chapter is doing either, but surprise surprise, those activities are classified as hazing. The only difference is that you are describing what new members do when they enter the sorority, not what pledges do. So I guess on that note, no one could get in trouble, right?
Threaded Mode