Everyone welcome and/or welcome back to my channel I just want to do a discussion video today something that I haven’t talked about on my channel and to be honest I’ve been avoiding it just because I don’t want to go through no legal problems with my sorority so but I
Figured I would do this video anyways just because it’s something that I haven’t talked about and even though I would like to stay clear of it I do want to have an open discussion about it on my channel and that is the discussion of being paper versus being made now for
Those of you who haven’t watched any other videos regarding this topic paper is people who do not go through a pledging process they just sit in a classroom and fill out paperwork people who are made are considered people who go through a pledging process now the
Reason why I don’t use the terms pledge or paper or made I just a pledge sometimes because I talk about NPC organizations they still pledge but with d9 organizations with divine on Greek life if you’re made you’re someone who went through a pledge process and the pledging process is typically or it is
Hazing so people who say that they are made are typically people who say the words like I’ve been online I was made I pledged this certain organization and the reason why I stay clear of it is because like I said pledging is associated with hazing so my organization as well as other
Organizations work really hard to not perpetuate this idea or to support this idea of pledging because we don’t want it to be associated with hazing hazing is illegal it’s something that every organization does not recommend but it is something that chapters of these organizations still do and if they’re
Doing it they’re doing it without it being sanctioned by their organizations so for me I like to steer clear of these terms because like I don’t want my organization to think that the things that I’m talking about relates to pledging or relates to hazing so I simply don’t use the word pledge words
That I would typically use with initiating induction going through a process or I’ll just simply say intake I don’t like to use we’re pledging because I don’t want to get in trouble so you have some people out here who still use the word pledging because for their
Organization it is a term that they still use but it doesn’t necessarily mean hazing and some organizations will frown upon it they don’t recommend using the word pledging just because they don’t want to be associated with hazing so for all of you I’m just gonna put it
Out there hazing is illegal hazing it’s bad hazing is something that you do not want to do just to say that you earned your letters that’s another thing that people will say people will say I earned my letters for me personally I think that you can earn your letters without
Pledging anyone can pledge an organization anyone can say that they went through a process of hazing and will after they get their letters will not do anything for their chapter or do anything for their organization so my personal opinion on hazing or paper for that matter is to me it doesn’t matter
For me you are your letters through doing work for your organizations so it doesn’t matter to me if you pledged for however many days it doesn’t matter to me if you were online for how many days that doesn’t matter to me what matters to me is did you go to that event that
We had on Saturday did you participate in those 20 hours of community service that’s required for your chapter that to me is how you earn your letters people who say that they are earning their letters through hazing or earning their letters through pledging it doesn’t really mean anything to me because I
Feel like if you really want to do something for your organization then you will do actual work you did not learn about your organization through hazing you learn about your organization through the actual sanction process that your organization created for you you learn about your chapter through teamwork activities that were sanctioned
By your organization it is not with your life to do hazing it is not worth your time to be up all night learning stuff outside in the rain or whatever they have use you is not worth your life to do those things I think that it is worth
Your time to study with your constituents or study with your with other people who you’re joining with it is more worth your time to spend time together to study than to be outside doing something crazy like that that doesn’t make any sense to me it makes
More sense to me to be self driven like you can outside of your events together that’s required by the organization you guys can get together on your own and learn this stuff you guys do not meet anyone standing over you hollering at you telling you that you’re doing
Something wrong you guys should be wanting to get together to learn the materials together you should be motivated on your own to do these things versus having someone stand over you to do it I never understood that I never understood the idea of wanting to join an organization
But having no motivation to do it on your own like why do you need someone over your head telling you to do something so for me I don’t think that being paper versus made or being made versus paper has any weight I think the weight comes from you wanting to join an
Organization you having the power and the consistency and the motivation to do on your own versus having to go through something crazy just to earn some letters like that doesn’t make any sense to me I think that the reason that organizations did it in the past inmates it’s for them for whatever
Process is they had them go through I think it made sense to for them break you down to build you up in a sense and it’s kind of like I think they kind of get the idea from like being in the military like military will break you
Down and build you back up too but they do it in a way that does not cost physical or mental harm to you and I think that’s where it got crazy with hazing is people were taking it too far and people were losing their lives there
Is a way that you can train people that you can teach people that does not involve them putting themselves in physical or mental danger and I think that people want to prove themselves by participating in hazing or participating by pledging and it’s not just the vy9 organizations that do it all Greek life
Is anticipate you can go on the internet and look up Greek life hazing or a Greek life pledging and you will get a million news report about how someone has lost their life due to pledging and if you look at those things and you still want to
Pledge I guess the question that I want answered these days is why do people want to pledge why do people choose to pledge that’s something that I need answered because for me while my process was hard it was not easy I still feel like I did not ever get put in a
Situation where my life was in danger I don’t care either way if someone is paper or made I know people who like older people I know other people in the organization who would tell me stories about the old days and they not here the new people tell me their process stories
And I’m just like but so at the end of the day who learned the most at the end of the day what did you get out of it so for me I just don’t think that it’s worth it in my opinion I think that you earn your letters by just doing work for
Your organization like it does not matter and it’s sad to think about all the people who lost their lives wanting to be made or put themselves in certain situations just for the sake of saying that they earned their letters but at the end of the day they don’t do
Anything for their chapter I don’t understand it but I wanted to put the discussion out there if you guys don’t want to respond to this particular video because it is a touchy subject you guys can always be on me on my Instagram and just let me know your
Thoughts that’s fine too but if you guys want this video informative or interesting give me a thumbs up if you guys are participating in my giveaway make sure that you’re participating i think i’m included the instructions by now so check out my instagram for the instructions on how to participate hope
You guys like this video and i’ll see you guys in my next one bye
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