Like many other things, they are what you make them. They can be perfectly innocent or really hard hazing. It's crappy that the groups who use them to the good (i.e. as a way of helping pledges learn the history of the GLO and/or the chapter) are punished with the a-holes who use them as a hazing tool.
Lawyers play WAY too big a part in everyone's NM program, IMO. If clearer guidelines were established by the HQs there would be no need for the amount of lawyering. "Uncomfortable" isn't a legal term, as far as I'm concerned.
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