Hazing Charges for Splinter Sorority

[AlphaFrog]

Ok...I read that they made their girls wear the same clothes for four days....seems to me if you're trying to be a "status symbol" maybe you wouldn't want girls associated with you wearing the same clothes for days on end....

[deuika]

Originally posted by AlphaFrog
Ok...I read that they made their girls wear the same clothes for four days....seems to me if you're trying to be a "status symbol" maybe you wouldn't want girls associated with you wearing the same clothes for days on end....

tehetehe

Good Point

[chideltjen]

Originally posted by deuika
Question....
Does anyone have a theory to why people continue to pledge after this blatant mistreatment?
Now, some people do cry wolf in terms of hazing, some of the things I've heard didn't sound like hazing to me, but nonetheless people screamed haze. That entire term is kinda iffy.

But back to my question; why do people put up with this?
Call me crazy, but telling me to eat my own vomit would have been a "light bulb".

Probably cuz some active sister told them that they all went through this at one point so they are just carrying on the tradition. "can't break tradition." Or it's some crazy form of a rite of passage where the nm has to EARN her membership. And maybe the new member doesn't know any better... feels more hatred toward the active house and CAN'T wait to be initiated so she can do it to the next pledge class. It's a vicious cycle. But yeah... eating my own vomit is where I hold a red flag. And having it be spam and booze... that can't taste great.

[adpiucf]

I think people allow themselves to be hazed for a couple of reasons:
1) Peer pressure
2) Desire to belong and fit in/prove oneself/be popular and accepted
3) Desire to people please and conform to the majority
4) Initimidation and feeling like there's no way out
5) Fear of being ostracized and alone, and being ridiculed even more for "failing"
6) Fear of not being good enough/fear of failure....

.... even when what they're being asked to do is morally, socially or just plain legally (in some instances) wrong. I can't imagine another instance where you'd willingly consume your own regurgitated dinner!

While I agree that these alleged incidents may not have happened if there had been university and alumnae advisory support/administration, I disagree with the article's subtle inference that this would not have happened within an on-campus or national group. There are plenty of inter/national chapters out there in the news soiling the Greek image, one notorious headline at a time.

I don't support the events that allegedly occurred within Tri-Phi, but I also don't like the way the article tried to paint locals as a renegade option to joining an inter/national.