{"id":246468,"date":"2010-01-29T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/collegecandy.com\/?p=52512"},"modified":"2010-01-29T12:00:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T17:00:35","slug":"rutgers-reminds-us-why-do-we-haze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/246468","title":{"rendered":"Rutgers Reminds Us: Why Do We Haze?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo and girls involved totally unrelated to story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What is the meaning of a sorority exactly?<\/p>\n

As an outsider, a self proclaimed anti-sorostitute, I\u2019ve never really understood the purpose.\u00a0 It\u2019s a \u201cspecial bond\u201d they tell me.\u00a0 A \u201csisterhood\u201d they say.\u00a0 Here is what I know:\u00a0 I have a sister, and I have never struck her with a paddle 201 times in one week.\u00a0 She has never been at the hospital with blood clots and welts on her ass that somehow symbolize our \u201cloyalty\u201d to each other.\u00a0 I have not forced her to endure this pain to prove to me that she is worthy of being my sister.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, an anonymous Sigma Gamma Rho pledge at Rutgers University cannot say the same<\/a>.\u00a0 When she began to pledge the sorority, she was told that they do not condone hazing.\u00a0 It took her one whole week, until she couldn\u2019t even sit down, to finally go to the hospital and turn in the girls who had been beating her endlessly during the duration of her \u201cnon-hazing.\u201d\u00a0 Six girls were arrested and charged with aggravated hazing.<\/p>\n

We are all thinking the same thing: how could these girls do this to her and the other pledges? It is cruel, evil, and outrageous.\u00a0 But here is the bigger question: how could the pledges allow <\/em>this happen to themselves? Joining a sorority is an elective activity.\u00a0 No one forced these girls to pledge.\u00a0 It was their choice.\u00a0 Even though they were told that hazing was not condoned, why didn\u2019t they opt to leave once they saw a paddle?\u00a0 And even if they were too afraid to leave, why the hell did they go back for day two, three, four, etc?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I understand the feeling of wanting to belong to a group, of having instant friends, and wanting to be a part of something.\u00a0 However, if I were in a situation where girls were going to physically harm me in order for me to be a part of this group, my response would most likely be \u201cyou\u2019re out of your f**king mind.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019d be out of that room so fast and the door would not hit my untouched ass on the way out.\u00a0 The concept is really bizarre to me.\u00a0 They allow themselves to be hazed, beaten, humiliated, and whatever it takes to be accepted into this so-called \u201csisterhood,\u201d and then one month later they\u2019re supposed to be BFFs with the people who tortured them. \u201cHey! Remember that time I beat your ass with a paddle and you couldn\u2019t even walk? HAHA GOOD TIMES GIRL!\u201d<\/p>\n

Yeah\u2026.sounds like it?<\/p>\n

I know that it is important for hazing rules and regulations to be implemented within the Greek system, but I truly feel that hazing will continue as long as there are people who are willing to be hazed.\u00a0 Think about it:\u00a0 Sororities and Fraternities haze because they know that there are so many Greek hopefuls who will do whatever it takes to be in that certain house.\u00a0 If a couple dropout, there will always be more, and the select few will make it until the end.\u00a0 But what if there were no willing participants?\u00a0 What if every desperate freshman decided to suddenly respect themselves and not take part in anything so outrageous?\u00a0 It would have to end, wouldn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

So, ask yourself: how far would YOU go to fit in?<\/p>\n

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Photo and girls involved totally unrelated to story. What is the meaning of a sorority exactly? As an outsider, a self proclaimed anti-sorostitute, I\u2019ve never really understood the purpose.\u00a0 It\u2019s a \u201cspecial bond\u201d they tell me.\u00a0 A \u201csisterhood\u201d they say.\u00a0 Here is what I know:\u00a0 I have a sister, and I have never struck her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}