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Originally Posted by arvid1978
And this is why I'm asking where it is more prevalent, since most campuses I encounter do not use the term "line", nor do they assign "names" or "numbers". Many of them see that practice as outright hazing because it isn't something in the pledging standards, others see it as something that belongs in the social greek realm and they are differentiating themselves from the socials.
APO is quite different in various parts of the country, and it's important to see and understand what may be OK in one chapter is not going to fly in another because it's not the campus/chapter culture.  |
Well, I didn't need to get hazed to get my nickname. I think that it is a regional thing because there are other brothers I knew before I was a member that claimed to have "pledged" and "earned" their line names. Personally, I don't see a problem with having a name but I don't see where hazing comes in if the name is fitting to your personality (at least it is at my chapter).