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Originally posted by Optimist Prime
we only got to wear our pledge buttons once the whole time b/c they said making us dress up to wear them was hazing. That's BS we should have got to wear it more.
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Asking people to participate in a dress up day and wear their pin is not necessarily hazing...and someone may be taking the rules too far. The question is this-if someone chose not to participate in the dress up (normal clothing etc.), what would happen to them? If there is no punishment or retribution of any kind, then it is not hazing to ask for their participation. If there is, then you could make an argument that it is.
Scavenger Hunts--this is an FIPG thing. FIPG, which most national groups are a part of, specifically fordbid them and I was told it was because there were too many instances of people travelling long distance, stealing things, make buffoons of themselves etc. I know that's not always the case, but that is where the objections are stemming from.
I do think some of the rules we have are because people cannot always be trusted to not go too far, unfortunately (the whole given an inch, take a mile kind of thing....)