Night 3

Dear Blog,

We took a night off of all the initiation rituals, so the pledges could collect themselves after two nights of Alpha Sigma Sigma fun! As much as I would have loved to finish up all of our initiation tradition, it was nice to talk to some of the older brothers about our pledging experiences with AΣΣ. Some of them were intense. One brother broke his nose by running into a wall during one of the pledge nights! He had to walk around campus with a nose cast and a shaved head for weeks! Others had funny stories like this to tell about their experiences, but one brother got to me and it concerns me what he had to say.

He talked to me tonight about how he thinks our initiation rituals might be too much. He referred to it as “hazing.” It’s not hazing if it’s all out of brotherhood right? They’re voluntarily doing what we tell them. Usually after we play the “you don’t have to, but if you don’t do it, you’re not truly a brother” card. But that’s beside the point! Sure downing beers until you puke isn’t the safest thing in the world, but we’ve all done it. It’s the type of bond that keeps us close. They’ll understand it when they’re older. It’s not a bad thing if nobody gets seriously injured, and nobody has (a broken nose isn’t THAT bad).

What we do is okay. Isn’t it?

Until tomorrow,

FratBoy