And to think up until now it was only atheletes and the military with extreme hazing.
My personal fav....
(Excerpt from the article linked at the bottom)
.....What kinds of things did you witness?
I really hadn’t expected to find the level of "Animal House" campiness that I did in some groups. They had a tradition called boob ranking where pledges had just a limited amount of time to strip off their shirt and bras to examine each other topless so that by the time the clock was up, they were basically lined up in order of chest size in order of the sisters to inspect. Some sororities hold what they call “naked parties,” during which after a few drinks sisters and pledges strip off their clothes and basically run around the house naked, some of them hooking up with each other before they let the boys in.
I'd like to think the author of this thread was being sarcastic, or at least meant "funny" as in "sad" or "F***** up".
this clear in my original response. So to the poster, if I set you up for ridicule, then I am sorry about having done so. Thanks KCSHYGUY for pointing out the issue to me.
It is surprising that so many young women willingly subject themselves to such humiliation from both men and other women... says something for the self esteem of a good majority of US women... maybe not quite as far advanced as we would like to think ourselves... I mean prostitution still isn't legal outside of a few counties in NV is it?
Looks like superfluous fluff--but entertaining in its own way...the author will get her 15 minutes of fame, a best-seller, and a TV movie too. 
I never had the desire to join a fraternity when I was in college. I had some stereotyped images of what the Greek system (not that kind of Greek, LOL) would be like, and the types of people that would be members. Being severely "socially-challenged" at the time, I knew I would never fit in with the "clique" mentality I envisioned ran rampant through the system. If I had ever tried to join a frat, I know I would've been one of the pledges hazed, stripped naked & left out on a deserted country road to find my own way back to campus, only to end up being black-balled from joining the fraternity anyway. I definitely know I would not have been considered "cool" by the vast majority of frat guys, & I would've been snubbed by any sorority girl I might have encountered during any social function. Ironically, it would be a sorority girl that I met in a statistics class who would end up sending my life into a downward spiral. Even without that, I would not have survived socially, emotionally, or psychologically in that environment.
After reading the MSNBC article, it did confirm a little about what I believed. It's sad what some people will do just to conform & fit in. Not all people who join or have been in fraternities/sororities behave in these ways, obviously. I'm not saying fraternities/sororities are bad; I'm saying any involvement I would have had would have been bad for me.
To buttress some of the points that kcshyguy made.
When I was senior in college, I met a female junior who was a member of the most exclusive sorority at the university. By chance, her and I ended up taking a lot of classes at the same time. We had met the first time when I was a junior.
Her and I hit it off immediately, she did not conform to the image that I had of a girl from her sorority eventhough she had all of the trappings (wealth, nice cloths, status, connections). Given my feelings about sororities and fraternities, I dismissed her initially and even continued to maintain a distance as it became obvious that she often showed up early before class, and always sought me out to talk and interact with.
I remember once when something happened to her in a class. She looked directly in my direction with a look of of total embarrassment in her eyes, it was like no one else existed in the class to her other than me. Since something similar had happened to me earlier during my college days, I related my story to her, it seemed to have made her feel better and after that day neither one of us mentioned the event again during the time that we spent around each other.
One thing that often bothers me when I think of that time in my life is that I was so focused on being poor and on how much I struggled that I could not see that the sorority woman saw human qualities in me that she liked and my status did not matter to her. She saw a person that she could easily talk to and interact with. It was not until years later once my finances were sound that I was able to see the meaning in her behavior toward me.
Sadly our lives took different paths and we lost contact, I finished school and started my work career. She went off to do a summer internship with a business that only her connections could have gotten her into. I often think of the times that we interacted as some of my best college experiences.