What crazy hazing rumors have gone around your campus?

[DolphinChicaDDD]

ok, i have a novel hazing rumor thingie:take a leak or f*ck a Teak (TKE)
yup, the girls had to stand outside the TKE house and either pee in front of everyone or go inside and well.....
everytime i tell this to TKE, they all cheer jokingly.

i heard the basketball thing, but it was on newspaper.

lets see, there is the group that makes the new girls make out with each other (personally, I think a guy made this one up for his fantasy)....
we do have a few things that happened back in the 80's, but the rumors that they still go on exsit- there is scavenger hunts where you have to steal property and take pic in front of all the girls houses and be back by 2am; a frat held a loaded gun to someone's head, the beatings, etc etc etc

[SapphireSphinx9]

Potential New Members: Most of what's been written have been rumors, while others have been truths... Please note that what we post on this thread is not how all Greek Organizations are, and only a very small percentage of Greek Life actually have to experience these pratices...

Unfortunately, I know a lot of greeks that have gone through a lot of crap during their pledge period.

These are just some that I know of... (All from different orgs, schools, etc.)

A friend of mine and his pledge class had to steal a street light, and bring it back to the house.

There is a frat that makes it's pledges dress in drag before they will be initiated.

Some of the greeks I know were paddled regularly as pledges.

Another fraternity makes it's plegdes make their class paddle by hand... Once they're done, they are to present it to the brothers... Then the brothers will paddle the pledges until the wood breaks.

The military style line ups are very common around here. I know a girl that now walks with a cane, because she messed up her knee from dropping during her line up.

Uniforms are also very common. One group has to wear black suits and ties during their whole pledge period, another group wears jumpsuits, but the most common uniforms are sweats. And the sororities aren't allowed to wear make-up and HAVE to have their hair a certain way...

I looked through a fraternity's photo album during Welcome Week, and saw some really nasty stuff!!! Pictures: There were pledges in their uniforms... Then there were pledges taking off their uniforms, showing some speedos underneath... Then the pledges were doing push ups in their speedos... And the last picture was of the actives masturbating on the pledges backs!

A lot of groups on campus have the No Talking rule, during pledging. Some groups only allow the pledges to talk to the actives... And some groups will allow the pledges to speak to someone if that person addresses them. But they have to keep it at a minimum.

I know of pledges having to carry around certain items, like bricks, pledge keys or manuals, the wooden pledge tiki around the neck, etc.

A few organizations have the "moment of breakdown"... Where their pledges aren't allowed to cross (during the night of initiation) until they breakdown and cry.

Then there is the ever present "branding" that goes on.

~Beth

[Glitter650]

Well there were no real descriptions of the hazing activities that took place amonngst the national sororities at my school.. however during rush last fall the local sororities were telling PNMs that "the nationals think they're better, but really they just cost more and they haze" Umm... so why is it I see women walking around campus in matching sweat outfits and ugly pins and "greeting" people "hello big sister?" cause I KNOW those aren't members of my sororoity... nor the other two NPC orgs. on campus...

[ladyj39]

One of my sisters was in a local sorority and dropped before she initiated because she was hazed so badly. This was a while ago, so I don't know if the sorority still does it, but she said they each had to carry a live goldfish with them 24/7, whether it was to class, to a bar, in their car, etc. They also had to carry a brick wrapped like a present in their backpacks. During Hell Week, they had to wear bells on their shoelaces so sisters could hear them coming.

They had a point system in the form of a matchbook. If they did anything wrong, a matchstick was taken away. If all their matches were taken, they were forced to depledge. They were also woken up at 3am one night and forced to wear robes, slippers, and curlers in their hair. Then, they drove around doing chinese fire drills.

Another sorority made thier pledges wear a ponytail for everything they did wrong. Imagine seeing a girl with five or six ponytails walking through the quad. Why some girls put up with this is beyond me...

[tunatartare]

Ok so not to sound bitchy or anything, but I have to get this off my chest: it seems that a lot of people on this site have a serious problem with local sororities. I have heard a lot of stories about the awful things that local sororities do and how they haze and have poor leadership, etc. Well I would just want to say that I am in a local sorority and I can't say that any of the rumors I've heard are true. We are very involved with the school and are in extremely good standing with the administration. We have won Club of the Year at my school for the past 2 years in a row and have sponsored a vast variety of community service projects at my school including a penny drive for the Pediatric AIDS foundation, 2 blood drives, Take back the Night, etc. In addition, I would just like to say that WE DO NOT HAZE. I just pledged this past semester and I was never once made to feel inferior. The sisters definitely listened to us and when there were things that we felt uncomfortable doing we were told not to worry and we just wouldn't have to do them. As a result, I have formed a very close bond with my sisters and whenever I put on my letters I feel so proud to be part such a wonderful organization. When I hear comments from members of national organizations that are degrading to locals, it makes me angry, because while we may not have a national board behind us, we have a great executive board and 30 sisters.

[skjackee]

One fraternity hazing I witnessed:
For a big sis revealing, the actives made their nm's get dressed up in strange outfits and were blindfolded, they had to stand in a line and they had to pass a stick with a cup of water on it down the line, if it was spilled, they had to start over. Then they made them sing, and for the finale, the big sis' had to buy a huge mug and before the pledges could see their big sis, they had to chug the entire mug of beer, some guys were refilling the nm's mugs if they weren't going fast enough.

I also know of a hazing having to deal with a very angry horse. All I know is that one fraternity has this horse, that they don't feed for a while and the pledges get to meet this horse at some point. The guy who told me about this wouldn't say anything more.

One of the Asian fraternities supposedly makes all their new members ejaculate on a cracker and eat it...there is no contest, they all get their own ejaculate cracker.
I've seen one of the Asian sororities making their nm's dress up in various crazy things...one day they were in Ralph's dressed up as Smurfs (complete with blue paint, diapers...etc.)

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by DaisyKLP
Ok so not to sound bitchy or anything, but I have to get this off my chest: it seems that a lot of people on this site have a serious problem with local sororities. I have heard a lot of stories about the awful things that local sororities do and how they haze and have poor leadership, etc. Well I would just want to say that I am in a local sorority and I can't say that any of the rumors I've heard are true. We are very involved with the school and are in extremely good standing with the administration. We have won Club of the Year at my school for the past 2 years in a row and have sponsored a vast variety of community service projects at my school including a penny drive for the Pediatric AIDS foundation, 2 blood drives, Take back the Night, etc. In addition, I would just like to say that WE DO NOT HAZE. I just pledged this past semester and I was never once made to feel inferior. The sisters definitely listened to us and when there were things that we felt uncomfortable doing we were told not to worry and we just wouldn't have to do them. As a result, I have formed a very close bond with my sisters and whenever I put on my letters I feel so proud to be part such a wonderful organization. When I hear comments from members of national organizations that are degrading to locals, it makes me angry, because while we may not have a national board behind us, we have a great executive board and 30 sisters.

That is wonderful that YOUR local sorority does not haze. (I'm not being sarcastic, really, it is good.) However, not all local sororities are like that. The local sororities and fraternities at my last school hazed - openly. Because locals don't have a national board, they differ a lot from campus to campus and GLO to GLO.

[tunatartare]

Originally posted by GeekyPenguin
That is wonderful that YOUR local sorority does not haze. (I'm not being sarcastic, really, it is good.) However, not all local sororities are like that. The local sororities and fraternities at my last school hazed - openly. Because locals don't have a national board, they differ a lot from campus to campus and GLO to GLO.

With all due respect, chapters of national GLO's differ from each other sometimes as much as nationals do. There have been many instances where even though the national board of a GLO is against hazing, a certain chapter has had its charter revoked due to hazing (this has happened several times at my school). Yet whenever that happens, people don't automatically jump to conclusions and assume that all the members of the GLO are bad and condone hazing, they just think that that one chapter was a bad seed. My point is that people group all locals together and take us all to be the bad seeds if one chapter of a totally unrelated GLO screws up.

[GeekyPenguin]

Originally posted by DaisyKLP
With all due respect, chapters of national GLO's differ from each other sometimes as much as nationals do. There have been many instances where even though the national board of a GLO is against hazing, a certain chapter has had its charter revoked due to hazing (this has happened several times at my school). Yet whenever that happens, people don't automatically jump to conclusions and assume that all the members of the GLO are bad and condone hazing, they just think that that one chapter was a bad seed. My point is that people group all locals together and take us all to be the bad seeds if one chapter of a totally unrelated GLO screws up.

I don't think anybody on here was doing that - this argument has been had before. People were saying "The locals at my school do blah blah blah..." which is equivelant to saying "The chapter of QVC at my school..." I wouldn't assume anything about a local I know nothing about. However, I can name about 10 locals off the top of my head in Wisconsin that DO haze and embarass the Hell out of other GLOs. Yes, I realize there are nationals that haze - that happens on campuses besides yours. However, I don't think anybody came on here and said "Every single local in the whole world hazes because the one on my campus does." That would be like saying "Every single Gamma Phi Beta is beautiful because the ones at Miami are." It's flawed logic. We were all relating stories about our campus. If you re-read my post, I said that locals differ from campus to campus because they are local and have no national board. Nowhere did I say they are horrible terrible hazers because they have no national board. Don't infer things into posts that aren't there. I was trying to make the point that I was not talking about all locals, but rather the ones at Wisconsin - Platteville.
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[HotDamnImAPhiMu]

DaisyKLP, I think you need to relax!

The point of this thread is to relate the usually HILARIOUS and NOT TRUE stories we've all heard about greek hazing.


Does anyone remember that movie about the sorority house that was knocked down? There was a dead baby inside the walls! This would have been like a Lifetime special from the late 80s, from what I remember.... and it was billed as made-up, not "based on a true story," but still.

OH -- also, "Outer Banks," by I forget who, has the main character, Kate, join a sorority -- I think Omega Omega Omega? it was made up -- where the initation ritual involved big and little sis kissing. Of course, later in the book one of her former pledge sisters attacks the others in a homicidal frenzy.

[RedRoseSAI]

Guys, this thread has been fun, but perhaps it's best if we let it die. Yeah, we've all heard some hazing rumors, but I'd hate for some propsective rushee/new member/etc. to stumble across this thread. It is that time of year, after all. Just something to think about...

[Glitter650]

Daisy KLP,
I am well aware that there are locals that do not haze, and I would never intentionally say anything that would promote the image that ALL local ALL across the country haze. I DO know from experience (I was a pledge of one of the locals at my school) that MOST of the locals ON MY campus DO haze.. (btw LadyJ that sorority still does use the matchbook system) and the NPC orgs all thought it was funny that locals were spreading the rumor that we haze. I was by no means attempting to down play the importance of local orgs becuase they are important and do some great work for the community and campus... I just happen to know the ones on my campus happen to haze too.

[Buttonz]

Things like pledge class greetings, pins and bandanna worn around the leg or arms are done by most GLO's on campus (not by us however! We jut have a small pin). I have heard (and seen) other things, such as seprating sprinkles, militarty line ups where they are quized on informatiom about the group and about sisters personal lives as well (what they like, if they have a bf, #, address, etc) One group dosen;t allow its pledges to speak to guys at all for the last 4+ weeks or so of pledging. Scavanger hunts also are done by a few GLO's

[James]

bump funny thread

[Sister Havana]

I heard the circle the fat rumors at IU...the Zetas were the ones who supposedly did it. (Not true according to the girl I knew who pledged freshman year.)

The elephant walk rumor I heard about two different houses that got kicked off campus for hazing. No idea how true that is...it's not something I wanted to ask.

I know the Phi Beta Sigma chapter at IU does brand their members...I've seen some of them with the Sigma branded onto their forearm. Gave me the creeps the first time I saw it.