I have seen other new sorority pledges wearing strange outfits and ordered to humiliate themselves in the student center by making fools out of themselves. In the second stage of initiation, the cult strives to fill the gap left in the victim's lives, ensuring the cult swallows all free time. Fraternities and sororities often have endless meetings for pledges, mandatory activities, and clean-ups designed to take away much of the pledges' time. Some cultish religious groups have religious study groups which meet several times a week, and other informal activities, until members find themselves spending more time on the group than on classes. Once a member of the group, recruiting others becomes a major focus.
Fraternities spend inordinate amounts of effort attempting to convince new students to pledge.
Many religious groups try extremely hard to convert others, watching lonely people and offering them a chance to make new friends. Most people have some kind of experience with someone trying to get them to give a religious group a chance. I urge everyone to do the hard thing- find your own friends. Perhaps some people enjoy the idea of giving up control over their life, and being treated like a second-class citizen simply because they're a new recruit.