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In response to "Honestly I will never understand why fraternities (and sororities) think this kind of thing is justified, necessary or worthwhile, nor will I " by pmb

I have absolutely NO idea why the pledges put up with it. Or how it's allowed to go on for such a long period of time.

Posted by Jim (aka Jim) Jun 8 '15, 12:42

In all my dealings with Greek life in college...I never heard ANYthing like that on our campus. And I certainly never saw it.

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I went to a small private liberal arts school that was about 50% greek. there were frats like this on campus - amanda Jun 8, 13:09
My daughter really struggled with her sorority pledge period (more psychological hazing than anything). She hated it, but felt like she'd get through - pmb Jun 8, 13:02 4
- Yep, we had nothing like that. It's crazy really. I mean, as pledges, we all had to make paddles and we had to get every Active's signature on them. - Jim Jun 8, 13:06 3
  - Most of what my daughter had to do was similar to that, but they had to learn all this sorority history stuff and the name of every person (and - pmb Jun 8, 13:24 2
    - Whoa...yeah, was nothing like that for us. Hell, we'd get yelled at for NOT studying. -- nm - Jim Jun 8, 13:31 1
      - Yeah, but you went to a nerd school. - spamlet Jun 8, 14:22
You'd think if any place had an institutional desire to be on top of this stuff, it'd be PSU. -- nm - Will Hunting Jun 8, 12:48 1
- No shit. -- nm - Jim Jun 8, 12:56

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