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Poster Name:
slivers

Poster Message:
ZTA and APhi get blasted on here all the time, but I'm pretty sure they never beat up a new member. If you offer a bid, that girl or guy is supposed to be someone you picked because you liked them and wanted them to be in your sister/brotherhood. New members don't need to be broken down to be made worthy or else you wouldn't have given the bid in the first place. A little history: there was no such thing as hazing when fraternities were first founded. A bid was offered because a gentleman was already deemed deserving, and he pledged to the brotherhood and got initiated and that was that. Hazing didn't start until after WWI and it really ramped up after WWII. Why? Because guys were coming to college only AFTER having served active duty in wartime. They had joined the military right out of high school, and boot camp, combat training, survival skills and fighting for their lives was completely ingrained in them. That experience and mindset left an impression that continued when they left the service and then finally went to college. So these veteran soldiers brought the only culture they knew into their fraternities; that's how they had bonded with other men and the only way they knew to be with each other, so they directed their own military-type training onto new members and hazed them because of what they had been through in their military wartime experience. Except that discipline and training, while having the purpose of toughening them up to save their lives in wartime, was not exactly applicable or necessary to an academic environment, where the purpose was to develop scholars and gentlemen. Hazing has gotten worse and worse over time because every sick guy likes to do one better than he got. It serves no purpose and makes no one better.