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All of you make good and valid points, but MIP will never change. There was much weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth with this was first instituted. Over the many objections of the body. However, the political faction of each org and the NPHC, do not react to internal pressure. They are most concerned with the external forces that threaten our orgs from the outside. Those being legal, risk management, collegiate rules and regs, the media, and most of all, big donors.
What many of us do not notice is that now that each of our orgs are 501C corporations, we are bound by U.S tax regulations. As such, the U.S. govt can determine indirectly, how each of our orgs should operate. Therefore, any membership rules have to meet "their" standards. Anything construed as hazing, even as innocuous as dressing alike, will jeopardize that coveted tax exempt status. If you lose that designation, you lose sponsors, partners, and organizations that make donations to tax exempt service orgs.
Right now, on the national level, our fraternal organizations are businesses (beyond internal maintenance). That is their priority. If the brotherhood/sisterhood of those organizations suffer, so be it, as long as the business aspect remains strong. The impact on unity is seen as a viable trade-off to the interests of the "big picture". 10 years from now, their will be no undergraduate initiation, because it is becoming more of an onus andless of a necessity to the greater interests of the orgs themselves.
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