Berkeley sorority hazing reddit. So I asked a girl who crossed 2 years ago.

Berkeley sorority hazing reddit So, my PWI has all of the D9 groups on campus which is cool. Trying not to sound like a total geed but wow recruitment is really toxic - bringing freshman vulnerable girls in and then completely dissing them after 5 minute conversations with strangers- not to mention how mean the sororities are to each other on Greek rank- calling each other fugly - just sad to see and experience Absolutely nothing. I don’t think this is okay at all. I remember having to eat weird foods. This stems from a WSU student who died in 2019 from alcohol poisoning. I went to UC Berkeley and I was in a sorority, but I've heard that the Greek life there isn't the norm (much more laid back). I've personally seen the hazing for one sorority my fraternity is close with and it's nothing serious. Rushing is intended for easy-to-bully freshmen who can be incorporated into the frat easily through some amount of hazing. At my school, my sorority’s process is known to be the worst there is. Hazing definetely exists here without a certainty. Although I've never experienced any hazing first hand, there are minimal forms of "hazing" I've seen, (hazing here being what Panhellenic rules deem as hazing, but not necessarily the cliche harmful hazing) One of my friends in a Christian sorority had to change her name to let's say she was in Alpha Beta Tau, ABTPledgeSanders on all of her I know reddit isn’t exactly the best place to ask about sorority recruitment, but I haven’t had much luck finding authentic experiences online since most of it is extremely sugarcoated and “trust the process” bs. So I asked a girl who crossed 2 years ago. Yes hazing happens and many of the alcohol related hazing incidents unfortunatley tend to be true, but this kind of shit is ludicrous. Comparatively, frats DO haze as do many spirit groups and other social orgs. The sororities don't throw parties and the houses are nicer and cleaned by staff. I cannot speak for other/all sororities, they are each their own little group but I was in a NPC/PHA sorority here and swore to myself if I ever came across it in my sorority I would leave. She said although she isn’t in said sorority they hazed mentally but they got caught because of the physical hazing. I’m talking about getting lined up in the basement and getting screamed at by a PM, APM, and upperclassmen. Junior year and up gets weird. No one is actually being forced to do anything, you are bonding over stupid shit with new friends, and it is kind of like a right of passage where you want to be the person who had to do the toughest or most ridiculous thing. They'll definitely be saying something like "We don't haze" when they in fact do. You should always shoot for the sorority with the girls you want to spend your four years with. The sorority that i went into first initially captivated me as it looked like the type I wanted to associate with. As in, they have girls in the soroities report to them about hazing. Mental & Physical Hazing: Imagine that being berated, yelled at, forced to wake up at 4am-8am after sleeping at sometime between 2am-3am, and humiliated many days for 7-9 straight weeks, that is the hell that pledging involves. e unsubscribed because of the Aaron Carter episode and other questionable guests that were allowed. I enjoyed the activities and quite honestly I was really into getting hazed. It’s also important to note that hazing occurs in many social groups and is not exclusive to greek letter organizations. If you like chill dudes, there is are frat for chill dudes. Hazing is not a US cultural phenomenon and it is not exclusive to college aged students. Hi, I'm a member of a panhellenic sorority! I can tell you that with Martha Pollock's latest "crackdown" on Greek Life at Cornell, many sororities have taken her words to heart and have eliminated any form of hazing they may have had in the past. Regardless of all this, joining a sorority is a fantastic idea for almost anyone (provided dues aren't a problem). Lehigh is not rural. It'll start out small after the first couple of days you get accepted into the sorority. I can’t seem to find that much information online either about what sets each sorority apart from the others. If Berkeley was truly serious about upholding its image as a paragon of liberal values they would do away with the frat system entirely. With Rush season coming up, I thought Id just post my personal breakdown of each chapter at UCLA, feel free to contribute… I consoled so many crying friends in sororities so many times because of the various bullying, hazing, drama, etc. A subreddit dedicated to California Polytechnic State University in beautiful San Luis Obispo, California. It is not tolerated and is the quickest way to ruin your sorority experience because you will not have a sorority experience. I'm not going to pretend my experience was the exact same as every other girl in Greek life, but believe me most anything you 'hear' is really exaggerated. Best of luck! Some of the big examples of hazing that come to mind are being forced or pressured into unsafe or humiliating acts or situations. one of my housemates (we are in the same sorority of women females) has been bragging about how she was doing "finger exercises" with a CS61B professor. Frats are wayyy different than sororities in many aspects most especially hazing. Some might be lighter or some might take it to the extreme. You have to go and mingle with them and see which give you the best vibes and who you get along with. she makes it pretty clear that she is getting fucked by him, and i strongly suspect that she is getting better grades because of this Sorority hazing My girlfriend somehow stumbled across a 2023 short film called Scotty's Vag and it's a bunch of girls being hazed in a dark basement with alcohol and then being made to wrestle in a pit of jelly. I have friends who are in others and the most extreme forms of hazing I’ve heard about are stuff like not being allowed to wear letters, having to run events at crappy times, and some small drinking stuff. However one of them was “inactive” no one wanted to speak on it. All Greek life organizations are well aware and I’m positive that additional rules will be in place for this fall with the new law. Hazing is not a part of any of the organization's membership processes. 2 below the all women’s average as well as having the lowest GPA for pan Hellenic sororities. Since COVID, it has been common for sophomores to rush. No one should be going through hazing to join an organization. Some folks might call various things I went through "hazing," but they were mostly silly rules-following things (must always have a specified mix of change in pocket, a specified mix of brands/styles of condoms, etc. ” Hazing along with underage drinking are outlawed where I went to school at Vanderbilt and in the great state of Tennessee. Jefferson's favorite town: bands, shows, restaurants, politics, UVA, crime, sightings on the downtown mall, wars with Richmond, etc. In my sorority, a lot of Sorors don’t even respect you if you’re not “made” or hazed. Frats around the nation have an extensive track record of rapes, sexual assaults, hazing deaths, bullying, and racism. I'd like to point out too that Fiji, Sigma Chi, DKE, SAE, ATO, Zete, Pike, Delta Chi, and KA all have "exchanges" with sororities almost every week, which are pretty much one-on-one parties. The best thing you can do is ask around and say,"do any of the sororities here haze" because you may get a biased answer if you say the specific sorority. Frat rush involves underage drinking, already-illegal hazing, and well-documented racial discrimination. As long as it isn't ridiculous, hazing is fun, both being hazed and doing the hazing. when i joined with my pledge class (fall 2015, so before this happened) we were given so many talks about how hazing was absolutely not tolerated. i was a part of the same sorority at a different, smaller university (we were panhellenic/legit). 20K subscribers in the CalPoly community. As of May 2023, hazing in WA State is now a felony. Very active with sorority philanthropies and events. 105K subscribers in the FemaleInferiorityCap community. A subreddit for the community of UC Berkeley as well as the surrounding City of Berkeley, California. 78 votes, 43 comments. Also hazing is not just physically abuse and not just associated with greek lettered organizations. had no idea it was un-sanctioned until coming to this thread (bc comments were turned off lol). If you have any questions, comments or feedback regarding the subreddit, please feel free to send us a message through modmail. I'm a freshman looking at joining a sorority (maybe through COB), but I haven't seen too many rankings/reviews of the sororities on campus. Of course, with UCI's no-hazing policy, they won't outright say that they do. You are given quizzes on the brothers, the chapter, the pledge class, random professional topics from engineering to I rushed a sorority I am still in it but we got hazed we had to dd on party nights and had to clean houses at the end of the week we had to drink a lot I never minded that cause it was fun but some of the girls were just so brutally mean most our hazing nights were good until we had one that was just so bad the sisters that we were in the basement with were so drunk they started hitting some On the frat side, you absolutely can join a fraternity without doing drugs, drinking, or "fraternizing. Although I've never experienced any hazing first hand, there are minimal forms of "hazing" I've seen, (hazing here being what Panhellenic rules deem as hazing, but not necessarily the cliche harmful hazing) One of my friends in a Christian sorority had to change her name to let's say she was in Alpha Beta Tau, ABTPledgeSanders on all of her 413K subscribers in the comedy community. Hazing can’t get too bad in a frat because A) they’d get kicked off very fast B) any frats that did do extreme hazing have been kicked off I don’t know about sororities but I’m friends with a lot of frat guys and they had a pretty heavy time commitment (at random ass times like 3AM or 12AM) for their first semester pledging. What’s the reputation of some of the sororities here? I’m hoping I can join one without hazing if that’s possible. Members Online the menu if i opened up a new cafe in berkeley Point blank: hazing is not tolerated in any form, at all. It appealed as a chill group that would be loving and supportive that loved to hang out. The reality actually is that there really IS zero hazing in most sororities. ), some embarrassing group activities, and a few scavenger hunts (including such things as getting a picture with a particular stripper). However, we were able to engage in fine philosophical debates on the merits of Descartes, Kant, and Wittgenstein’s Poker. Not only are they socially retarded in comparison to their Greek sisters, their GPA is the lowest of any sororities, 0. But I feel like more modern sororities have kind of fazed out of hazing? Like schools are pretty strict with sororities now and a lot is considered hazing. My sorority was very protective of new members and worked hard to make us feel like we had a home there. If you want a similar experience, you could rent a house or nearby apartments in the same dorm/building. Greek life is a small part of the IU experience. # Welcome to Charlottesville! # This subreddit is dedicated to anything and everything having to do with Mr. 0. I don’t feel like there is a vetting process in place and that is important and can cause harm to viewers. And I’ve heard of a lot of hazing stories from sororities, particularly more emotionally abusive hazing tactics. It WILL shut down a whole chapter indefinitely. A Reddit community where initiated sorority members, people interested in joining a sorority, and folks who want to know more about sorority life can talk about Greek-letter women’s organizations. Disclaimer: May be strong themes and… A sorority may have a strong hazing policy at the national level, but the chapter at your school can be the one the does haze, but I don't know for sure. It’s called I-72 because will be locked in a garage for 72 hours straight, not allowed to sleep, forced to eat gross shit like vinegar soaked onions and eggs and throw it back up over 100 times, briefly released to swim in ocean in the middle of the night and then will be drugged at the end. sorority hazing Question hi, I want to join a sorority but I don’t want to get hazed and I need to know if there have been any recent horror stories and if there’s someone actually managing the prevention of it at UF or if anything happens if UF management will listen There is no single frat or sorority that is the best. r/berkeley: A subreddit for the community of UC Berkeley as well as the surrounding City of Berkeley, California. I rushed a sorority at FSU during the spring so the process was very different and although I liked the vibes and got a bid I A letter sent Friday from university officials to fraternity and sorority presidents informing them of the suspension did not describe the alleged misconduct as hazing but instead referred to “activities that have threatened the safety and well-being of members of the University community. Misogyny sub. I am trained in sorority hazing and I’m the grandbig of the largest line in my sorority. Unfortunately, this is not the case for all sororities as mentioned in another comment below. I can 100% confirm that sorority hazing (especially in the north) is bad. Gamma is the sorority that girls who want to join a sorority but aren’t good looking or social enough to get into any other ones. But a lot of the guys were pieces of shit and I ended up quitting just before hell week because some of the brothers wanted to haze my pledge brothers in my place while making me watch. Mostly just for tradition's sake. " However, like when any large group of 18-22 year old men get together, feeling peer pressure is a natural result (even if people aren't actively pressuring you). I learnt from a presentation the downsides of hazing, the results sounded terrifying and knew I absolutely wanted to avoid that kind of environment. i was My ex’s sisters were both tridelts at the time of their dissolution; my understanding is that the IU chapter had a very strained relationship with the national chapter, and following a ‘relatively’ insignificant violation of IU OSFL code (improper rush procedures, sketchy allocation of chapter funds, something like that), the national chapter finally had a reason to revoke the IU chapter Hazing, risk management violations, and fire and life safety violations: Pi Alpha Phi — Fraternity: HQ suspended the chapter: Pi Kappa Phi: 2908 Channing Way: Fraternity: Hazing, HQ closed the chapter **Sigma Alpha Epsilon: 2722 Bancroft Avenue: Fraternity: Hazing **Sigma Phi Omega — Sorority: Hazing **Sigma Phi Society: 2307 Piedmont Ave The worst thing we had to do was finish a beer keg in a tiny cramped room and our prize was meeting a sorority at a party afterwards. Hazing has been studied in the military, sports, workplaces and of course, membership organizations like sororities and fraternities. UC Berkeley is committed to providing a safe educational environment for everyone and does not tolerate hazing by any group or individual affiliated with the University. It can get incredibly toxic too especially with the boys. i don't want to snitch on one of my sorority girl sisters women, but i am pretty angry with things right now. Members Online UC Berkeley revokes recognition of 3 fraternities due to hazing activities-does anyone have the juicy deets? I’m actually hanging out with the president of Delta Phi Kappa (the only recognized asian sorority exclusively at usc currently lmao). Hi. Berkeley students should expect all student organizations to treat them with respect and dignity. All of you pledging Sig Pi are about to get fucked up bad during the initiation coming up. . No, not really. A school that big would definitely have hazing! Most sororities genuinely don't haze anymore. They would blindfold the first year guys and throw them in a dark closet which was empty except for a strobe light, a fog machine, a stereo blasting "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor" or something similar, and a pile of Skittles. 139K subscribers in the berkeley community. Their website is very old, but it's A subreddit for current, former and potential Amazon employees to discuss and connect. I knew a girl who was left behind by her sorority sisters at a party and got raped, then her sisters turned on her and started bullying her for it until she left the sorority. I was in a social sorority and honestly didn’t experience any hazing. Berkeley frats are no exception. Being awoken at 4am to recite the Greek alphabet, having to get a piercing together, only being able to wear one color and one hairstyle for a week. A gathering in which the participants intend to commit a crime is an unlawful assembly and does not fall under freedom of association; that’s why the cops can shut down frat parties with underage attendees even though the assembly on its face is legal. I cant speak to the pledging process for Asian-interest sororities, but the process for PHC sororities are all pretty similar, and heavily regulated by the PHC and by each chapter's national organization. A place where Comedy meets Comedians 139K subscribers in the berkeley community. A huge Greek system like Bama has a ton of eyes on it- I graduated from Berkeley in the mid-2010s so maybe some things have changed regarding the Greek community since I was there. I'm an alumna of a sorority at pitt and was never hazed by my sisters. Hazing not only is hurtful to young women who should be lifted up and welcomed, but it also harms Greek life as a whole. Can… I was a lambda pledge captain. Reply reply Posted by u/EducationalYard7744 - 4 votes and 2 comments Hazing is illegal. People have to report these incidents as well. There may be some light "hazing" to embarrass or make you uncomfortable, but nothing long-term physically harmful. If you want to affiliate with a larger social sorority, look into Beta Sigma Phi. Just to clarify, the Greek community at Berkeley encompasses multiple organizations outside of the social fraternities and sororities that most people think of when they think of Greek life. I don't think the sororities even make their pledges drink very much. What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little EECS major? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in Gender and Woman's studies, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret protests on Dirks' mansion, and I have a GPA over 2. - The 'Cap' in the name is for 'captions'. It's actually the reverse of what you said--the Greek systems where sorority hazing is still prevalent tend to be smaller, more isolated systems where there's less oversight. Hazing is anything that makes you feel mentally or physically A guy I used to row with had a pretty crazy novice initiation at his old club. If you are a stoner, there are frats for stoners. It also depends on the house, some are totally square. Honestly anyone who is really into this hazing stuff is really pathetic, you’re just looking for friends not to destroy peoples lives. I wasn't in a sorority, so take this with a grain of salt, but I heard rumors that UT is very strict about hazing for panhellenic sororities. Does anyone have experience with sorority initiations and know if there is any sort of "hazing" involved when you first join? I would like to know what I'm getting myself into and I'm tired of the phony sugar-coated descriptions that come from PHA officers, because I'm sure joining a sorority isn't rainbows and butterflies 100% of the time. They are getting off their 3 or 4 year suspension this You don't need a facility--not all sorority chapters across the US don't have a house, that's certainly not a requirement. We had a rumor circulating for a while that a fraternity which had recently been kicked off had purchased a medium sized alligator and locked their pledges in the basement with it. It’s in Bethlehem City, and Easton and Allentown are both 10-20 minutes away. I’ll DM you her specific responses. I would recommend either just making friends in classes or going for one of the off campus frats as they tend to more of social group than a fratty frat The atmosphere of a sorority is HIGHLY dependent on what school you go to and what area of the country you are in. 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