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branded....
Dick Hall, my TKE field mentor, would occasionally talk about the
branding in the Zeta Psi chapter at UCLA...he was hired by the
local alumni to help this outift by being somewhat a live-in advisor while he was Assistant Dean of Men at UCLA. Dumb.
I would often listen as he would talk of that chapter doing the deed, and have since known of its widespread practice amongst
some of the black fraternities. Dumb. The chapter eventually went under, by the way.
Like hazing, it is hard for this rustic Kansan to conceive hurting a
man one day and the next calling him brother.
Like the present jewelry craze, I simply think it's primitive; call
me narrow-minded if you will, it is still really dumb.
There are practical and more meaning ways to express loyalty and caring. Branding...stupid, likewise nose rings, duh, dumb.
Just an outburst of an old man commenting on an idiotic thing.
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