Comments on: Do you Realize How Illegal Most Pledge Programs Are?

By: Sobes

Sobes — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:49:22 +0000

How ’bout you sack up and just get over it. The reason your “still here” is because this has been done for over 100 years. Considering how many Greeks are out there, there’s been relatively few incidents.

Also, doing things to friends and pledge brothers doesn’t qualify. A lot of the things you’ve listed require the other party to press charges. There’s solidarity among friends and Greeks.

You probably break laws everyday without knowing it so your point is relatively inane. In most states blowjobs are still illegal and considered sodomy. You gonna complain about how dangerous and terrible those are in your next article?

By: Saav

Saav — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 02:40:22 +0000

Honestly, size doesn’t really matter. My Fraternity has a double vote process, ie – after rush, we vote to see who gets bids. And after they finish the pledge process, we vote to see if they get initiated. We could easily give everybody bids and let everybody who pledges get initiated, but it is about showing devotion to brotherhood. While we don’t make them do stupid shit, pledging is pledging and you have to earn those letters.

By: Spewf

Spewf — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:57:20 +0000

In all honesty, my Fraternity does not do any of the things listed above.

We must be doing something right if we are the second biggest on campus, had the biggest pledge class this semester, and are 5th (out of 30+ Fraternities) in GPA.