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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was in a (rather geeky) non-hazing fraternity in college 35 years and they actually took it fairly seriously. Our chapter was recolonized by someone who had an older sibling or friend who was injured in some fraternity hazing ritual, so not hazing was core to our local chapter. That said, other chapters in our national still hazed pretty bad. When we did pledge trips to other chapters, we knew which ones to avoid. Rumor was that one nearby chapter would kidnap visiting pledges and haze them something awful, so don't go there.

By the standards of my local fraternity chapter, the initiation ceremony for a campus "secret society" I was in (which in practice was just a community service organization with some pretense of mystery and history) would not have been permitted by my local fraternity because it involved parading around campus in costumes.

I had friends in a campus programming group that did things like arranged visiting speakers, performances, showed movies (licensed projections, all legal) and they also hazed worse than my fraternity.[/quote]

hazing is the imposition of strenuous tasks in exchange for initiation... our college drama society required participation in a certain number of student led productions, but distributed stage and practice space and resources by seniority, so freshmen wound up assigned to practice times as late as 4am, there was strong social pressure to participate in social gatherings (even if there were no keg stands) and there were elaborate cultural cues that were supposed to be observed that were ostensibly silly or about celebrating drama... the end result was kids who wanted to join missed class, saw GPA declines and felt as stressed as boys at frats. it doesn't have to be formal, an expectation that you show up and participate to show your worth is hazing.[/quote]

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