[23171] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] Issue Two
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brown Michael-EMB021)
Wed Nov 13 10:44:03 2002
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 10:43:58 -0500
Reply-To: Brown Michael-EMB021 <Michael.R.Brown@MOTOROLA.COM>
From: Brown Michael-EMB021 <Michael.R.Brown@MOTOROLA.COM>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
>From: Sherrie Vander Vliet <SAVANDER@HOLLY.COLOSTATE.EDU>
>
>Around here, our pledges don't just collect signatures. We have notebooks
>made up by our big brothers filled with interview questions. There are
>different interviews for different groups of people
>(pledges/actives/advisors). The questions are like ice-breakers. This
>helps encourage pledges to get to know both each other (through pledge
>interviews), actives (through active interviews) and advisors (through
>advisor interviews). This also helps the actives get to know, and spend
>some time with, the new pledges. I don't consider this hazing. Does anyone
>else?
I hope not.
For myself, obtaining strickly signatures is not hazing. Some GLO do consider it, based on their hazing criteria of hazing being making the pledge "do something they normally wouldn't do".
Doing interviews as part of getting signatures should also not be considered hazing. Its all part of the larger goal of getting the pledges to know either other and the Brothers, and vice versa. I hope that chapters that do ask pledges to do interviews provide them with possible interview questions.
Where you CAN get into hazing in the area of getting signatures is if you require the pledge to do something to earn that signature. We used to have it where the active would ask the pledge a simple question to earn the signature, but dropped it because someone felt it could be abused.
YiLFS
Michael Brown
APO LM & TB
