Prohazing Comments

hello.  I came across your website and was a little confused.  It just seemed 
to me that you all want to abolish hazing.  Well I'm sorry it's just not 
going to happen.  Wherever you go you are going to hazed to some extent, at 
work, at school, even at home.  

I am President of [name removed] sorority.  I have been hazed, and I now haze 
our pledges.  If you people ever decided to join an organization that does 
this, you would understand the purpose it stands for.  There is a purpose.  
It teaches the pledges togetherness, communication, respect, courage, and a 
huge sense of accomplishment.  I can't tell you the feeling I got when at the 
end of hell week I was able to take off my blind fold and all of the sisters 
were gathered around us and a banner saying congratulations was there.  I had 
earned something.  I had accomplished something.  And for that I am a much 
stronger person and I can accomplish anything I want to no matter how big or 
small.  

My first hell week as a sister I began to question the reason why we do 
things that we do.  But I found out that there's a reason for everything. The 
pledges are never in any real harm.  They are not forced to eat or consume 
anything.  And they are free to walk at any time.  It teaches them how to 
work as a team.  It teaches them so much.  I can't put it into words.
Well, my point is that hazing has a purpose in every facet of life today.  It 
is an important way to earn respect.  The military I believe has been the 
biggest offender, not Greeks.  But they do it for a reason to - some of the 
same reasons I have already listed.  People are sent away to boot camp to 
learn respect.  Through joining [my sorority], I have learned so much and it 
has taught me so much.  So before you condone hazing, learn about all aspects 
of it.  I was scared going into Hell Week, but I didn't care.  I was going to 
do it.  Just because you are all scared of being told what to do doesn't mean 
you should go and report about simply news statistics from television.  
Granted a few organizations ruin it for the rest of us, but please, learn the 
facts.  It is NOT HARMFUL!!!!!  You may see it as that because you simply 
just do not understand it.  It has a purpose in american society today and it 
always will.  Please consider what I have said before preaching your thoughts 
about hazing.


A hazee and hazer