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Part of the reason they are forbidden by so many HQ's is PERCEPTION. If a chapter does a scavenger hunt, and both pledges and members participate, and they are just doing things like "get your team picture taken at the alma mater" or "get napkins from Pita Pit," the fact of the matter is that others on campus still see a group of girls running around completing a list of tasks, and it can easily look like hazing of some type.
Also, after a few highly-publicized incidents, people assume the worst about what is on your list. So my list says "get a picture with a guy in an orange t-shirt," and we stop a Hispanic guy in an Illinois t-shirt to get a pic with our team, passersby familiar with earlier cases may think our list says "get a picture with a funny-looking spic". Sorry for the use of a hateful word; that was one of the items that got a certain chapter at another Big Ten school in trouble.
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