The writer is a member of the Sigma Delta Tau sorority and the hazing allegations she revealed in her article prompted an official inquiry.

Christina Ng of ABC News reports.

Sorority Member’s Story Calls Hazing ‘Weirdly Worth It,’ College Investigates Claims

A New York college has put a sorority’s pledging on hold while it looks into hazing claims made by a recent graduate in a Cosmopolitan magazine article about the “trauma” of sorority hazing and why it was “weirdly worth it.”

Tess Koman, a 2013 graduate of Union College in Schenectady, described the experience of sorority pledging as “at once one of the best and worst decisions I’ve ever made,” but ultimately decided that “the benefits outweigh the hazing.”

She detailed a number of alleged hazing situations, including being “forced to dance for all the fraternities on campus to absurdly sexual songs” and “lineups” during which pledges were expected to rush to the sorority house wearing all-white and no makeup.

“We’d have to line up in alphabetical order and take turns stepping into one spotlight in the middle of the house basement,” she wrote. “All of the sisters sat in the dark. We couldn’t see anything, but they could see all of us and our every imperfection.”

The sorority sisters would ask “ridiculous and mean” questions, force the pledges to dance and make them cry, Koman said.

She also described being locked in the sorority house’s basement and crying over having to share one toilet with 42 girls.

Koman said she sometimes felt “ashamed and a little gross” and questioned why she was putting herself through the pledging but ultimately knew this was what she had to endure to be accepted into the sisterhood.

“There’s a flip side to the trauma, though: Like all the happy tears when I nailed my ‘sound-off’ (a routine each pledge had to perform whenever asked) and earned plenty of snaps (exactly what they sound like — just like in ‘Legally Blonde’).”

Koman wrote that after she finally became a sister, she “adored bossing around incoming pledges” and putting them through the same pain that she went through.