N2,
while I don't deny that some parts of hazing serve constuctive puposes: e.g. torking, it is unplesant, but it serves a function.
What I don't believe is that your chapter can maintain the same program without any variance. If you have never lost a pledge into your program, then congratulations, your chapter is pure efficacy. But the one that I de-pledged did, and what they exercised was maybe even worse than what you're talking about. I never ever thought i would drop out, and i'm sure none of my freinds thought that I would, but I did. The fraternity I pledged did not do a good enough job in keeping their pledges. While I understood everything they did, In some parts I didn't agree with it because I saw the negative side effects. In no way do I resent this organisation, or its members, I made a choice that I could start a fraternity better than any available on campus.
Anyways, I'm saying that my pledge program is very challenging and time consuming (for all involved), and it has allowed us to maintain a very tight brotherhood without enforcing some really outdated rite of passage.
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